UMD's 1856 Project awarded a grant from the Mellon Foundation to establish a research incubator program that investigates and documents slavery at the university.
Henry Willis, and assistant professor in the Department of Psychology, awarded over $250K to create a free mobile application that helps Black teens cope with racism and common mental health problems.
New City, University of London/University of Maryland's Philip Merrill College of Journalism study finds that many sub-Saharan African newsrooms leave sexual harassment to go unchecked.
American studies Ph.D. student, Devon Betts, awarded the first annual Bonnie Thornton Dill Dean’s Graduate Research Award for his research on Black Americans’ mistrust of the medical field.
UMD's Geographical Sciences Department held a seminar featuring Maurice Carney, co-founder of Friends of the Congo, to discuss the history of colonization in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
A new exhibition, David C. Driskell & Friends: Creativity, Collaboration, and Friendship, opens at The Driskell Center Gallery on February 26 and runs until May 24.