Last week, the Graduate School sponsored its second annual Invest in Your Future, Summer Edition Student Success Symposium. With three concurrent tracks focused on writing, career planning, and developing professional skills, the symposium aimed at propelling graduate students, and postdocs into a productive summer.

By Anna De Cheke Qualls In 2015, doctoral student Matthew Aruch was traveling in a boat from the Pinkaiti Research Station in Brazil to A’ukre village in the Kayapó Indigenous Territory (TIK) of Pará, Brazil. The vessel was filled with people from all walks of life, and yet there was lots of lively, and harmonious conversation.

This week marked the spring term's Campus Celebration of Doctoral Graduates Luncheon. Designed to recognize doctoral graduates across all disciplines, the event also includes advisors, mentors, families, and guests. This spring, over 70 doctoral conferees attended, along with ten deans, and associate deans representing many of the colleges, and schools across the graduate campus.

Written testimony on Maryland General Assembly SB 491, submitted March 7, 2019.

The Graduate School is proud to announce that we are now partnering with TerpTax and the Robert H. Smith School of Business to provide a free, comprehensive tax preparation service for UMD graduate students. TerpTax, which is housed in the Robert H. Smith School of Business, is a Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) chapter, which is a program created by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to provide FREE tax return preparation to low-to-mid-income individuals and families, the elderly, students, and persons with disabilities.

By Anna De Cheke Qualls

As the Graduate School nears its March 19 Centennial, the celebration planned for March 27 will headline some important figures in graduate education on the campus and beyond.  In collaboration with the Council of College Associate Deans for Graduate Education (CADGE), Dean Steve Fetter and others have been working diliently

Dean Fetter's testimony on HB 270, submitted February 5, 2019 Written testimony on HB 270

By Anna De Cheke Qualls

By Matthew Aruch, Janet Chernela, Emily Colón, Katie Murtough, and Alison Thieme