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).

Amy Marquardt, a PhD candidate in the Materials Science and Engineering Program, is making quite a name for herself! She is the first UMD student to receive the prestigious CIC-Smithsonian Fellowship for her research, which is revolutionizing the way society preserves cultural artifacts.