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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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September 05, 2018

Are You Not Entertained? The Pedagogical Utility of Video Games and the Limits of Historiography

By Jordan Slavik
August 31, 2018

Putting It Out On The Drums

By Anna De Cheke Qualls
August 30, 2018

My Story: Close Encounters of the Meteorological Kind

By Debbi Mack ('02 MS, Library Science)
August 29, 2018

The Job Search: Dr. Tasos Lazarides

There is a massive, commanding rock on the southwestern shores of Cyprus, rising majestically from the Mediterranean Sea’s blue waters. It is said to be Aphrodite’s rock--where she was born, and according to Homer’s Odyssey, where she sought refuge after the affair with Ares.
August 29, 2018

“Viktor Zhukov Was My Friend”: “The Americans” and the Liminality of Soviet Veterans

By Thomas McCloskey
August 28, 2018

Grad Student Stories Film Project Underway

There is nothing more compelling than a person's story. And what's more, to hear such narrative through film.  The Graduate School, through a series of short graduate student testimonial films, hopes to capture some of the essential elements of graduate life at Maryland.