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A Puzzling Secret Identity
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Accomplished SPH Administrator to Lead Graduate School
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U.S. News Ranks UMD Graduate Programs Highly
News Articles
Ancient Music Unites Faiths and Cultures Through the Centuries
All of us have had some sort of connection to music. And concerts have always been the crossroads where different people gather to hear sounds that speak to them. A kind of organic diversity soup, if you will.
Where Are They Now...
Michelle Beadle Holder (’16, Sociology) is an Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Health Sciences at the University of Missouri. Her research examines the role that religious organizations play in narrowing the gap in health disparities in African American communities.
Diversity Soup
Brian Burt ('06, Higher Education), assistant professor in the School of Education at Iowa State University, is the recipient of a five-year, $569,702 NSF Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) award, which supports early career development activities of teacher-scholars who are most likely to become the academic leader
Drs. Julie Posselt and Casey Miller Train Faculty on Holistic Admissions
Almost two years after the Council of Graduate Schools' 2016 report on Holistic Review in Graduate Admissions, graduate programs across the enterprise underwent holistic admissions training with national thought-leaders