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Office of the President: True to Our Values
President Wallace Loh's Message to the UMD Community.
UMD jumps three spots to number 40 in US News Best Global Universities
The University of Maryland ranks No. 40 in the U.S. News & World Report Best Global Universities rankings, which evaluates 1,000 universities across 65 countries.
Prehistoric Europe Holds Sobering Lessons for Today’s Environmental Scientists
The effects of human society on the environment, including the degradation of ecosystems and habitats, are the subject of considerable, focused research in universities...
UMD Students Light Up U21 Monterrey Conference
Tom Mumford (‘18), Casey Lim (‘17), and Melanie Zheng (‘17) recently had a chance to explore Monterrey, Mexico, as attendees at the U21 Undergraduate Research Conference...
A Sobering Account Of Transnational Epidemics
Did you know that smallpox killed more people in the twentieth century than all the wars in that century combined?
Mechanical Engineering Department Helps its Students ‘Do Good’ In Sierra Leone
The Department of Mechanical Engineering has created an innovative new educational experience that ties social welfare to core engineering concepts.
UMD College Park ranked 33 in US, 67 in world, according to Times Higher Education Supplement
University of Maryland was ranked 67th in the world out of 980 surveyed institutions, according to the latest listing released by the Times Higher Education...
Six of seven US Nobel laureates this year are foreign born professors
Of the seven US winners of the Nobel Prize so far this year, six are foreign born professors at US universities.
University of Maryland chosen as U.S.-China Strong (USCS) partner
UMD, College Park, has been chosen as one of the implementation partners for the “One-Million Strong” initiative led by the U.S.-China Strong Foundation (USCS).