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A ‘Discovery’ for Graduate Students

Take a Virtual Tour of Housing Community Opening This Summer
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UMD Launches Inaugural Grand Challenges Graduate Communities

Interdisciplinary Teams of Students to Live, Conduct Research Together in New Discovery House
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UMD to Launch Grand Challenges Graduate Communities

New Graduate Student Housing Will Accelerate Interdisciplinary Research, Mentorship and Professional Impact
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News Articles

  • Invest In Your Future: Graduate Success Symposium, January 22

    2nd Annual Invest In Your Future: Graduate School Success Symposium Monday, January 22, 2018, 9:30 am-4:15 pm Stamp Student Union

  • Where Are They Now...

    Chris Heffner ('17, Neuroscience/Cogntitive Science) spent the summer traveling and finishing up projects at UMD before moving to Connecticut.  He is currently an NSF-funded postdoctoral scholar with Dr.

  • International Graduate Student Thanksgiving Dinner 2017

    The international graduate student community is an integral part of our academic community here on campus. The University of Maryland, College Park is home to approximately 3,300 international graduate students representing over 120 countries. For this reason, the Graduate School has been sponsoring an annual International Graduate Student Thanksgiving Dinner, both to celebrate this critical constituency but also to build community.

  • UMD Doctoral Student Wins International Thesis Competition

    Contact: Mary Carroll-Mason, mcmason@umd.edu, 301.405.7792

  • How to Save Honey Bees in Just Three Minutes

    University of Maryland doctoral candidate Samuel Ramsey has wanted to be an entomologist since he was seven years old, but his first introduction to insects had a less than auspicious beginning. 

  • Where Are They Now...

    Lane Windham ('15, History) just published a new book based on the research she did as University of Maryland student: Knocking on Labor’s Door: Union Organizing in the 1970s and the Roots of a New Economic Divide.

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