Grand Challenges Grants News
March 2024
Researcher’s Pacific Dive Spurred Innovations in Robotics with Machine Intelligence to Create Biodegradable Plastic Substitutes
March 26, 2024
EPA Awards Nearly $1.2M to Student Teams for Innovative Solutions to Environmental and Public Health Challenges: Guangbin Li
March 14, 2024
Is It 100% Safe to Drink Tap Water? Here's the Truth
March 13, 2024
UMD Grand Challenges Team Trains Teachers on Youth Mental Health in Rural Honduras
March 6, 2024
February 2024
Solving the Mystery of the Vapor Plumes on Campus
February 26, 2024
Urban Equity Collaborative Launches First Cohort of the Community Fellows Program
February 23, 2024
UMD Students Share Child Welfare, Education Policy Priorities at Advocacy Event
February 16, 2024
January 2024
On Nepal Research Trip, Graduate Students Strive for Solutions for Food, Energy, Water
January 26, 2024
Advancing Climate Resilience in Maryland
January 24, 2024
Researchers Develop Online Platform to Improve, Expand Instrumental Education
January 12, 2024
UMD Leads Projects Aimed at Career Support, Accessibility for People with Disabilities (Insight Into Diversity)
January 2, 2024
December 2023
What's Really in Your Drinking Water? UMD Study Aims To Find Out (WMAR)
December 29, 2023
Safeguarding Every Drop: UMD Research Aims to Catalog Drinking Water Contaminants Statewide
December 13, 2023
Units Across UMD Partner on Multidisciplinary Initiatives for AI Ethics, Accessible Technology, and Literacy
December 7, 2023
“Equitable, Trusted Partnerships” for Racial and Social Justice in Education
December 7, 2023
Jonathan Lazar Gives Closing Keynote Speech About the Born-Accessible Model at the INTERACT Conference
December 5, 2023
Grand Challenges Q&A: Artificial Intelligence, Human Values
December 4, 2023
Grand Challenges Q&A: The Potential of Artificial Intelligence to Empower Teachers and Advance Equity
December 4, 2023
Grand Challenges Q&A: A Strong Democracy for a More Fair and Just Society
December 1, 2023
November 2023
UMD-Hosted Summit Mobilizes Youth Voters for 2024 Election
(November 30, 2023)
An Innovative Initiative to Increase Literacy and Equity in Maryland
November 16, 2023
MDI and Its Civic Partners Provide Opportunities to Forge Student Connections to College Park Elected Officials
November 14, 2023
A New Way to Make Digital Technology Accessible to All
November 13, 2023
Partnership Between UMD Researchers and Nonprofit Group Addresses Latino Community's Mental Health Needs
November 6, 2023
Grand Challenges Grant Q&A: How Education Can Help Us Prepare for the Next Pandemic
November 6, 2023
October 2023
UMD, State Officials Turn on First Tower of Statewide Weather Warning System
October 31, 2023
First of More Than 70 New Maryland Weather Stations Installed in Howard County (Baltimore Sun)
October 31, 2023
Grand Challenges: MIDA Informs Public Policy on Technology Accessibility for People With Disabilities
October 24, 2023
UMD Professors Launch Collective to Assist Communities, Activists with Urban Equity Issues (The Diamondback)
October 13, 2023
Maryland Democracy Initiative Contributes to State and National Leadership on Civic and Service Learning
October 22, 2023
UMD Researchers Creating Video-Calling Platform For Inclusive Workplace Communication
October 20, 2024
UMD Tech Tool Aims to Make Workplaces More Inclusive for Autistic People
October 12, 2023
A University-Community Partnership to Help Latinx Immigrant Youth Thrive
October 12, 2023
The Big Lessons That Can Be Learned from A Tiny Maryland Food Forest: The Global FEWture Alliance (WTOP)
October 10, 2023
Maryland Schools Taught Reading the Wrong Way for Decades. That’s Starting to Change. (Baltimore Banner)
October 10, 2023
Jing Liu and Wei Ai Part of $1.5M NSF Grant to Improve Middle-Grade Math Education with AI
October 6, 2023
Grand Challenges: Newly-Launched Urban Equity Collaborative Hosts Open House
October 5, 2023
September 2023
UMD Researchers Advance 'Game Changer' Project Predicting Acute Malnutrition
September 23, 2023
UMD Researchers Help Hyattsville’s Food Forests Look to the ‘FEWture’
September 22, 2023
UMD Celebrates Launch of the Maryland Initiative for Literacy and Equity
September 21, 2023
“Inclusive Excellence” Takes Center Stage in Vibrant Democracy and Education Dialogue
September 19, 2023
An Ally for Access: Palm-sized Robot Navigates Touchscreens for Visually Impaired Users
September 15, 2023
Grand Challenges Team Meets With County Stakeholders
September 13, 2023
July 2023
Colleges Must Embrace Accessibility Post-Pandemic, Say Experts (Ed Scoop)
July 25, 2023
Preventing A Poultry Pandemic
(July 2023)
Maryland Initiative for Digital Accessibility (MIDA) Launches
July 21, 2023
Tackling Childhood Literacy: A Grand Challenge
July 14, 2023
June 2023
Improving Fairness in Classrooms Through Machine Learning
June 7, 2023
May 2023
Using Machine Learning for Equitable Weather Forecasting in a Changing Climate
May 8, 2023
April 2023
Rising to a Grand Challenge: Climate-Related Disasters, Farming Crises
April 26, 2023
Rising to a Grand Challenge: Food, Energy, and Water in a Changing Climate
April 12, 2023
March 2023
Rising to a Grand Challenge: Childhood Literacy
March 28, 2023
February 2023
University of Maryland Awards $30 Million to Projects Addressing Humanity’s Grand Challenges
February 16, 2023
‘Meaningful, Tangible, Real-world Impact’ Provost Provides Update on Grand Challenges Grants, Announces New Award Category
December 6, 2022
Grand Challenges Update: 111 Project Grant Proposals Submitted, in Addition to 24 Institutional Grant LOIs, for Total of 135 Submissions
October 28, 2022
Grand Challenges Grants Update: Nine Institutional Grant Proposals Move Forward
September 27, 2022
Grand Challenges Institutional Grants Update: 24 LOIs Submitted Representing All 12 Colleges
July 18, 2022
New Grants Program Aims for UMD Impact on Society’s Grand Challenges
Apr 21, 2022
New Strategic Plan Maps Out How to Move UMD ‘Fearlessly Forward,’ Emphasizing Commitment to Solving Grand Challenges
Feb 10, 2022