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In the past year, the Graduate School (GS) has expanded the range of workshops it offers to graduate students and postdoctoral scholars, adding sessions on topics ranging from time management to writing a grant proposal to identifying transferable skills. The goal of the effort has been twofold: to offer more holistic support to the students and scholars the GS serves and to begin designing clear pathways for students to follow to reach their degrees and beyond.

Come join the Graduate School for our events on Maryland Day, the University of Maryland’s annual public open house. Stop by our tent on McKeldin Mall to learn more about how the Graduate School enables student success for the University of Maryland’s nearly 11,000 graduate students and join us for the following activities: Be a GradTerp! Experience what it is like to be a real GradTerp by trying on graduation regalia and taking photos.

Doctoral candidate Samuel Ramsey won the University of Maryland’s Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition.

Joohee Choi remembers the moment in 1997 when she created her first email address through Hanmail, South Korea's first public webmail service.  That event sparked a life-long interest in tinkering with web-based communication and information science - specifically, understanding the interaction between computers and humans.

Four University of Maryland graduate students have been awarded the Big 10 Academic Alliance/Smithsonian Institution Fellowship for 2017. These one-year fellowships are offered by the Graduate Deans of the Big 10 Academic Alliance in partnership with the Smithsonian’s Office of Fellowships and Internships and are awarded to outstanding doctoral candidates from Big 10 institutions who intend to conduct research using Smithsonian collections, facilities or experts in cooperation with at least one Smithsonian advisor.

William Kenlon, current Graduate School Flagship Fellow,  is a self-described "Navy brat" who, as a child, lived all over the United States.  He attended Germanna Community College before transferring to James Madison University to finish his music degree, with concentratio