Dr. Lane Windham ('15, History) has won this year's prestigious Organization of American Historians' David Montgomery Award with cosponsorship by the Labor and Working-Class History Association, for the best book on a topic in American labor and working-class history.

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 

This week marked the first annual Institute for the Recruitment of Teachers (IRT) Alumni Networking event for Maryland, Washington, D.C., Virginia and vincinity.

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.

The Graduate School hosted a networking event for new international graduate students on September 20.  Hosted by Interim Dean Jeffrey Franke, and attended by various support services across the campus, the program offered an opportunity for international graduate students to build connections. 

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.

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.

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

Pravrutha Raman, a doctoral candidate in the Biological Sciences Program, has been named winner of the fifth annual University of Maryland Three Minute Thesis competition, held April 4 during Graduate Research Appreciation Day (GRAD) at the University of Maryland campus. In the Three Minute Thesis contest, created by the University of Queensland (Australia), competitors explain their research and its impact to an educated lay audience in just three minutes.

Three graduate students from the University of Maryland have been awarded the prestigious Fulbright research fellowship. Saswathi Natta (Sociology), Samuel Miner (History), and Thomas