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The Racial and Social Justice Research-Practice Partnership Collaborative (RSJC), funded by a University of Maryland Grand Challenges Grant awarded to Principal Investigator (PI) Dr. Christine Neumerski and co-PIs Dr. Segun Eubanks and Dr. Jean Snell in the Center for Educational Innovation and Improvement and Dr. Apolonia Calderon in the School of Public Policy, spent its inaugural year building a partnership among project PIs, UMD researchers Dr. Awilda Rodriguez, Dr. Tracy Sweet, and Dr.

 A University of Maryland Grand Challenges Grant supported project led by Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice Gary LaFree is examining the link between rising sea surface temperatures and political violence. 

Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are ubiquitous emerging contaminants (ECs) that are persistent throughout the environment, and ultimately enter human bodies via the food web, threatening the public health and ecosystem safety. Currently, the presence of PFAS in all types of waters and human bodies throughout the U.S. has been documented. However, cost-effective individual techniques for simultaneously removing PFAS compounds are still not available.