Our identities are forged and evolve to reflect the unique circumstances we face throughout our life, but some factors, such as socio-economic status and even gender, often determine from a young age how we choose to identify ourselves in varying contexts. When it comes to how we label our race and ethnicity, these factors can also greatly affect the way we present ourselves to others, both on and offline. 

A new blog post from the Social Data Science Center (SoDa) outlines how the Global Covid-19 Trends and Impact Survey (CTIS), in partnership with Meta, which has been collecting data from around the world since April 2020 to inform stakeholders and public health officials of the pandemic’s spread, is now shedding new light on how Ukrainians’ health and well-being has been impacted by Russia’s attack. 

Though ‘increased worker leverage from a tight labor market’ frequently is part of the national narrative surrounding the COVID-era economy, a study recently announced by the U.S. Treasury asserts anti-competitive labor practices have forced down wages and worsened working conditions, costing workers 15 to 25 percent of what they might otherwise earn.

The Fischell Institute for Biomedical Devices was highlighted in the lead cover story of the Baltimore Sun on Monday, March 14.

On March 11, 2022, Congress passed an omnibus appropriations package for FY 2022 with strong bipartisan support that provides some significant funding increases for various research and education programs of priority to the university.  The legislative package was delayed due to disagreements in Congress over defense and non-defense spending levels and certain policy measures.

The University of Maryland (UMD) and UMD start-up, HighT-Tech, announced receipt of a total $5.6 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Energy Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E). The funding is part of the ARPA-E OPEN 2021 program, which prioritizes funding technologies that support novel approaches to clean energy challenges. The selected projects will advance energy storage and catalysis technology respectively.

The U.S. House and Senate are working to pass major science and innovation legislation that would authorize significant funding increases and create new research programs and research center opportunities through federal science agencies such as the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science, the Department of Defense (DOD), and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), among others.  The Senate passed the U.S.

Dr. Katie Shilton, Associate Professor at the University of Maryland’s College of Information Studies (iSchool), and Dr. Emanuel Moss, Postdoctoral Associate at Cornell University, led a discussion on the problems with trustworthiness in social data science during a talk hosted by UMD’s Social Data Science Center (SoDa) on Feb. 8. Moderated by iSchool Professor and Senior Associate Dean, Dr.

In January 2014, the U.S. Department of Education and the U.S. Department of Justice issued the joint Dear Colleague Letter on Nondiscriminatory Administration of School Discipline.

Collaborative research involving scientists from the University of Maryland (UMD) led to a discovery that could decrease the public health threat of tick-borne diseases like Lyme.