The Graduate School honored its 2016-17 fellowship and award winners at the annual Fellowship and Award Celebration, held on May 11. This celebration recognizes students, faculty, and staff who receive funding and awards honoring excellence in scholarship, mentoring, and service to the UMD graduate community.

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.

A Graduate School-sponsored education and research collaboration about noted 19th century writer, orator, and abolitionist Frederick Douglass between t

The Annual Graduate School Fellowship and Award Celebration will be held on Thursday, May 11, 2017, from 3 – 5 pm in Adele H. Stamp Student Union in the Grand Ballroom Lounge and the Prince George’s Room.  The Fellowship and Award Celebration honors faculty and students who were awarded a Graduate School fellowship or award for the 2016 – 2017 academic year. This event gives them the opportunity to reflect back on the year and celebrate accomplishments with peers, mentors, and Graduate School staff.

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

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

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.

Mary Carroll-Mason, mcmason@umd.edu, 301.405.7792 Committed to having global reach and societal impact, the University of Maryland Graduate School creates opportunities to enhance our students’ global education through such mechanisms as our participation in the graduate initiatives of Universitas 21 (U21).