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Fighting Forgetting
They marched DeNeen Brown down a street in Tulsa, Oklahoma, hands above her head, in the footsteps of Black people soon to be killed. But those victims had preceded her by nearly 100 years. At her back that day in the summer of 2018 was not an enraged white mob, but a pair of activists—a Black history-focused local tour guide and a city politician—both determined not to allow the orgy of killing and burning that started here in May 1921 to be forgotten.
Stage Whisperer
Even as many stages remain dark, adventurous new forms of theater are emerging from the pandemic—and Jared Mezzocchi is at the center of it. The associate professor of multimedia design for dance and theater has helmed 20 virtual productions since COVID-19 struck, including the School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies’ groundbreaking online version of Qui Nguyen’s fantasy “She Kills Monsters” and Diversionary Theatre’s take on the musical “Cancelled,” about a high school’s online scandal.
New COE Faculty Awarded Prestigious NIH Grant
When incoming faculty member Rachel Romeo arrives at COE, she’ll kickstart her research with the help of the prestigious National Institutes of Health Pathway to Independence award providing approximately $1 million in funding. Dr.
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$2.3M in State Grants Awarded to UMD-Affiliated Innovation Projects
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Groundbreaking Plasma Innovation Shines as Top Invention of the Year
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