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Last week, the Design Cultures & Creativity (DCC) program presented the debut screening of “Flatland,” created by a team led by senior computer engineering major Elyas Masrour ’24, the program’s...

Congratulations to ACES students Samai Patel '25 and Matthewos Gashaw '25 of App Dev Club (ADC), which took home the $5,000 prize in this year's Do Good Challenge project category,...

During this year's annual Undergraduate Research Day, undergraduate candidates nominated by faculty research advisors for the Office of Undergraduate Research's inaugural Excellence in Research Awards (ERAs) were evaluated by a...

The Pitch Dingman Competition, now in its 14th year, is hosted by the Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship at the Robert H. Smith School of Business and was held at the...

Congratulations to this year's student and faculty Winston Award recipients! Established by Roger (’76, ’79) and Karen Winston (’75), the annual Winston Honors Writing Awards recognize the best essays, research...

Anna Tovchigrechko ’26 became accustomed to the eight-hour car ride to a Walmart in rural upstate New York, near Niagara Falls. Each time, the middle-schooler and her dad ticked off...

Congratulations to the Honors Humanities program on receiving about $12,000 to redesign "HHUM106: The Arts and Humanities in Practice" course to incorporate a collaborative public art mural. Designed and taught...

The Black Honors Caucus held its first general body meeting in nearly three years on April 9, 2024. Led by a new executive board, Black Honors College students came together...

Honors Global Communities program director Sarah Croco will be inducted into Phi Kappa Phi on April 23, a rare honor for a faculty member. Phi Kappa Phi is an honor...

When Nikita Kale arrived at the University of Maryland in 2021 and found there was no student publication focused on politics, she wondered: why not create one herself? The philosophy,...

The Do Good Institute announced the six finalists of this year’s Do Good Challenge. The teams were selected from groups and organizations across campus that are tackling issues ranging from...

Motivated and inventive students from across campus are spending the spring semester as Accelerator Fellows to explore, test and scale up their ideas, projects and ventures while working with peers...