Campus news

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.

Dr. Catherine Nakalembe, an assistant professor in the Department of Geographical Sciences, is profiled in Forbes Africa's March-February edition.

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.

A new sculpture celebrating David Driskell; the late Distinguished University Professor Emeritus, artist, and scholar, is unveiled.

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.

The Frederick Douglass Center for Leadership Through the Humanities, a hub for humanities scholarship and programming that engages the public and works towards social justice and equity, to be inaugurated with a special event featuring world-renowned poet, educator and activist Nikki Giovanni.

UMD scholars Catherine Knight Steele and Jessica Lu (with Kevin Winstead) have authored Doing Black Digital Humanities with Radical Intentionality: A Practical Guide.