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DCC breaks into new dimension with ‘Flatland,’ a collaborative film created by program’s first Creative-in-Residence
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...
Read MoreACES student team App Dev Club takes top prize at 2024 Do Good Challenge
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,...
Read MoreHonors Terps Among Awardees at Undergraduate Research Day
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...
Read MoreHonors students among Terps Awarded $300K in Cash and Prizes at the 2024 Pitch Dingman Competition
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...
Read MoreSpring 2024 Winston Awardees
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...
Read MoreA Complicated Experience, Unlocked: Honors Humanities Student Forms Group for Peers With Incarcerated Parents
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...
Read MoreHonors Humanities program among $460K Awarded to Faculty, Staff, Students From New Do Good Campus Fund
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...
Read MoreBlack Honors Caucus Returns after COVID Hiatus
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...
Read MoreHonors Global Communities program director Sarah Croco inducted into Phi Kappa Phi
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...
Read MoreMore Than an Observer: Honors Humanities Student and Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Major Nikita Kale ’25 Takes Action to Solve Big Global Problems
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,...
Read MoreHonors Students Among the Six Trailblazing Teams Selected as 2024 Do Good Challenge Finalists
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...
Read MoreHonors Students Among Those Selected to Spend Spring 2024 Semester Scaling their Projects and Ventures as Accelerator Fellows in UMD’s Do Good Institute
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...
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