Graduate School Hosts Annual Fellowship and Awards Celebration
The Graduate School honored outstanding graduate students, faculty, and staff at its seventh annual Fellowship and Award Celebration on Tuesday, May 8, 2018. The Graduate School manages three general fellowship programs and over 20 specialized fellowship and award programs for students and faculty and staff.
Second Invest in Your Future, Summer Edition Success Symposium to be Held June 5
The Graduate School will host the second Invest in Your Future, Summer Edition Student Success Symposium on Tuesday, June 5 from 9 am-4:30 pm in the Edward St. John Teaching and Learning Center. With three concurrent tracks of sessions focused on writing, career planning, and developing professional skills, the symposium aims to launch participants into a productive summer. Master’s and doctoral students, as well as postdocs, can benefit from attending.
Welcome from the Dean
By Dean Steve Fetter Welcome to GradTerp Forum: A Blog on the Research, Scholarship, and Practice of the graduate community at Maryland. This year marks the centennial of graduate education at the University, and we launch this blog as part of our celebration. GradTerp Forum celebrates the fearless research and work of our graduate students.
It's the Identities, Stupid: Our Civic Responsibility to Engage
By: William Howell In an early-August radio interview, white supremacist Jason Kessler rejected the labels of “white supremacist” and “white nationalist,” instead calling himself a “civil and human rights advocate focusing on the under-represented Caucasian demographic.” Alongside racist assertions about the intelligence of different ethnic groups, Kessler managed to stress that “there's really no place that it's OK for me to speak” about “what interests are important to [white people] as a people.” [1] And, to some limited degree, he has a point.
“The Pathways of the Future”: The Synthesis of Histories in the Monument to the National Liberation War and to Ilinden in Kruševo
By Raino Isto Two photographs, taken August 2, 1974, captured Yugoslavian citizens “Trac[ing] the Pathways of the Future,” according to the front-page headline of the Socialist Republic of Macedonia’s principle daily, Nova Makedonija. [1]