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The eight-week “Grand Challenges of Our Time” course will welcome 80 freshmen to explore four critical issues: COVID-19, the Black Lives Matter movement, climate change and voting access.(Photo by John T. Consoli) Freshmen at the University of Maryland are wading through the most unconventional semester in generations, whether learning online or living in a single dorm room while the world wrestles with a pandemic, social unrest and an increasingly fraught presidential election.

In 2000, Distinguished University Professor Nathan A. Fox, began important research in state-run orphanages in Romania, where many abandoned children ended-up during and following the period of the Communist dictator, Nicolae Ceau?Öescu. As part of the Bucharest Early Intervention Project, Dr. Fox began studying the growth and development of children living in these overcrowded Romanian orphanages.

COLLEGE PARK, Md. – Brian O’Neill – an Earth systems scientist who studies the relationship between future societal development, emissions and climate change impacts – has been named the new director of the Joint Global Change Research Institute (JGCRI).