New rankings published in October 2022 place the University of Maryland in the Top 4 for most bachelor’s degrees awarded in computer and information sciences and support services overall and to minority groups.

Stephanie Shonekan (left) and Tammy Kernodle (right) In a recently released interactive project—the Timeline of African American Music—Carnegie Hall, in collaboration with 

William Braniff, director of the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START), has spent the last six months encouraging veterans and military family members to sign up to become poll workers through a new campaign called Vet the Vote.

In a new scientific review, a team of 70 scientists from 19 countries that includes a University of Maryland researcher today warned that if no steps are taken to shield insects from climate change, the consequences will “drastically reduce our ability to build a sustainable future based on healthy, functional ecosystems.”

A five-year, $41 million cooperative agreement announced this week with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will expand a University of Maryland-based institute’s work to provide scientific information to fight food-related illness and enable the development of sound public health policy.

The following message was sent to the Division of Research on behalf of Vice President for Research Gregory F. Ball:  

In recent years, policymakers have started confronting the issue of energy injustice. A subset of climate justice, energy injustice refers specifically to inequalities created by the systems that produce and distribute energy.

Dear Colleagues,

In November of 2021, University of Maryland, College Park President Darryll J. Pines and University of Maryland, Baltimore President Bruce E. Jarrell named eight professors as the inaugural MPower Professors. This award from the University of Maryland Strategic Partnership: MPowering the State (MPower) recognizes, incentivizes, and fosters faculty collaborations between the College Park and Baltimore campuses. 

In November of 2021, University of Maryland, College Park President Darryll J. Pines and University of Maryland, Baltimore President Bruce E. Jarrell named eight professors as the inaugural MPower Professors. This award from the University of Maryland Strategic Partnership: MPowering the State (MPower) recognizes, incentivizes, and fosters faculty collaborations between the College Park and Baltimore campuses.