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Influenza viruses cause seasonal outbreaks—and less frequently, pandemics—in people that put a strain on healthcare systems, and they can also cause outbreaks in animals with significant economic consequences to agriculture. The origin of all influenza viruses is wild aquatic waterfowl (e.g., ducks and geese), where the viruses are found in the gut and shed in the feces. The viruses may then find their way into poultry populations, where infection is either in the gut or the respiratory tract. 

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.