COLLEGE PARK, Md. – Competition was so close among University of Maryland student social entrepreneurs in the recent No Limits Social Impact Pitch Competition that the judges awarded two top winners.
The competition was part of the Social Enterprise Symposium, a daylong affair on March 1 that explored the role of ...
Winners Saw ‘No Limits’ in Pitch Competition
Posted On Tuesday, March 19, 2013 By USA Education News. Under MARYLAND Tags: Mondiu Ladejobi, Robert H. Smith School of Business, Social Enterprise Symposium, Social Impact Pitch Competition
COLLEGE PARK, Md. – Competition was so close among University of Maryland student social entrepreneurs in the recent No Limits Social Impact Pitch Competition that the judges awarded two top winners.
The competition was part of the Social Enterprise Symposium, a daylong affair on March 1 that explored the role of ...
Get Tickets to See the Dalai Lama at UMD
Posted On Tuesday, March 12, 2013 By USA Education News. Under MARYLAND Tags: Comcast Center, Students tickets, Terrapin Trail Garage, University of Maryland
COLLEGE PARK, Md. - The University of Maryland will welcome his Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama to campus on Tuesday, May 7. He will be the latest in a long-list of world leaders who have given the prestigious Sadat Lecture. Read the full announcement here.
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STUDENTS (7,800 tickets): Students ...
New Facility a Monument to Winning Tradition of Johns Hopkins Lacrosse
Posted On Monday, March 4, 2013 By USA Education News. Under MARYLAND Tags: Blue Jays, Blue Jays glory, David Cordish, Johns Hopkins, NCAA Lacrosse Championship
Say one thing about the new Cordish Lacrosse Center—you can’t go more than five feet in any direction and not be steeped in Blue Jays glory.
Looming to the left in the entry lobby is a towering two-story trophy case, jam-packed with championship hardware attained throughout the decades.
At eye level, the ...
Sadat Peace Lecture Welcomes Dalai Lama
Posted On Monday, February 25, 2013 By USA Education News. Under FEATURED, MARYLAND Tags: 14th Dalai Lama, Anwar Sadat Chair for Peace and Development, Dalai Lama's, Sadat Lecture, University of Maryland
COLLEGE PARK, Md. - The University of Maryland will welcome his Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama to campus on Tuesday, May 7. He will be the latest in a long-list of world leaders who have given the prestigious Sadat Lecture.
"The Sadat Lecture for Peace is one of the University's most ...
Md. Citizens for the Arts Honors Clarice Smith Center Executive Director
Posted On Monday, February 18, 2013 By USA Education News. Under MARYLAND Tags: Arts Honors, Clarice Smith, Clarice Smith Center, Executive Director, Maryland Citizens, Sue Hess
COLLEGE PARK, Md. – Susie Farr, executive director of the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at the University of Maryland, has been awarded the Sue Hess Arts Advocate of the Year Award by Maryland Citizens for the Arts (MCA). The Sue Hess Award is given to individuals whose advocacy efforts ...
University of Maryland Joins Library Publishing Coalition
Posted On Tuesday, February 12, 2013 By USA Education News. Under MARYLAND Tags: Educopia, Educopia Institute, Publishing Coalition (LPC), Strategies for Success
COLLEGE PARK, Md - The University of Maryland, in collaboration with more than 50 other academic libraries and the Educopia Institute, has joined a two-year project (2013-2014) to create the Library Publishing Coalition (LPC). The project emerged from conversations between Purdue University, the University of North Texas and Virginia Tech ...
UMD Landscape Architecture Students Take Learning Beyond the Classroom
Posted On Thursday, February 7, 2013 By USA Education News. Under MARYLAND Tags: College of Agriculture & Natural Resources, Department of Plant Science, Maryland landscape architecture, National Institutes of Standards and Technology
COLLEGE PARK, Md. – A group of University of Maryland landscape architecture students were recently given an opportunity to apply what they've learned in the classroom to a real-world situation. Officials at the National Institutes of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg enlisted the students to redesign an outdoor space ...
UMD Technology Measures Super Bowl Reactions In Real Time
Posted On Tuesday, February 5, 2013 By USA Education News. Under MARYLAND Tags: Department of Linguistics, Frank N. Magid Associates, Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, Super Bowl, University of Maryland
COLLEGE PARK, Md. - University of Maryland Professor Philip Resnik's React Labs is partnering with Frank N. Magid Associates this Sunday to take a comprehensive, real-time look at how consumers engage with the Super Bowl and its advertising. The research will use React Lab's innovative mobile technology - developed at ...
UMD Freshmen Take Second Place In Global “Code Wars”
Posted On Saturday, February 2, 2013 By USA Education News. Under MARYLAND Tags: Brendan Rowan, Code Wars, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Daniel Sun, Eric Jeney, high-tech companies, Matt Bender, UMD students, Windwardopolis
On Jan. 26, 17 teams comprised of more than 60 University of Maryland students competed in the 2013 Windward Code Wars, a day-long competition that gathers students from top universities around the world to analyze a programming problem, create a solution and pit their skills against each other.
Participating teams were ...
Iron Man Cal Ripken To Deliver Spring 2013 Commencement Address
Posted On Thursday, January 31, 2013 By USA Education News. Under MARYLAND Tags: Cal Ripken Sr. Foundation, Maryland legend, Ripken Baseball, University of Maryland
COLLEGE PARK, Md. -- Cal Ripken, Jr., one of the greatest baseball players of all time and a Maryland legend, will deliver the University of Maryland commencement address on May 19, 2013. Ripken, who played professional baseball for 21 years and founded Ripken Baseball, Inc. and the Cal Ripken, Sr. ...
Clark School Students’ Human-Powered Helicopter Achieves Record-Breaking Flight
Posted On Tuesday, January 29, 2013 By USA Education News. Under MARYLAND Tags: Clark School Students, Helicopter Achieves, Human-Powered, Sikorsky Prize, The Fédération Aéronautique Internationale
COLLEGE PARK, Md. – The Gamera human-powered helicopter team, comprised of students from the University of Maryland's A. James Clark School of Engineering, has officially had its Aug. 28, 2012, flight certified as a world record of 65.1 seconds by The Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI), also known as The World ...
UMD Research Team Developing Powerful Data Visualization Tool With Support From Oracle
Posted On Friday, January 25, 2013 By USA Education News. Under MARYLAND Tags: Data Visualization Tool, EventFlow, Human-Computer, Interaction Lab, Oracle Health, Sciences Institute, University of Maryland
COLLEGE PARK, Md. - The University of Maryland's Human-Computer Interaction Lab has garnered the support of the Oracle Health Sciences Institute for its research that is helping medical professionals analyze millions of patient records by developing a powerful data visualization tool called EventFlow.
Watch UMD's Ben Shneiderman, professor of computer science, ...
Mighty Sound Of Maryland Chosen To Perform in 2013 Inaugural Parade
Posted On Monday, January 21, 2013 By USA Education News. Under MARYLAND Tags: Inaugural Parade, Mighty Sound of Maryland, University of Maryland
College Park, Md. -- The University of Maryland will play a part in the 2013 Inauguration of President Barack Obama -- with the Mighty Sound of Maryland being chosen to perform in the 57th Presidential Inaugural Parade.
UMD’s marching band was chosen from thousands of applications to participate in the January ...
President Loh’s Statement of Support for Governor O’Malley’s Budget
Posted On Friday, January 18, 2013 By USA Education News. Under MARYLAND Tags: Education Governor, Governor O’Malley, Maryland, STEM programs
COLLEGE PARK, Md. - Once again, Governor O’Malley has solidified his reputation as the Education Governor.
His budget for the coming year provides support for expanded collaborations with University of Maryland, Baltimore, critical funding to expand STEM programs, and additional financial support for innovation, entrepreneurship and technology commercialization initiatives.
These investments in ...
Film Producer’s “Pi” in the Sky Dreams Become Reality
Posted On Wednesday, January 16, 2013 By USA Education News. Under FEATURED, MARYLAND Tags: Django Unchained, Lee Berger, Life of Pi”, Rhythm & Hues Studios, Snow White and the Huntsman.
COLLEGE PARK, Md. - You may not know Lee Berger by name, but you may have seen the work of his production teams in many of 2012’s biggest movies: “Django Unchained,” “The Hunger Games,” “Life of Pi” and “Snow White and the Huntsman.”
Berger ’76 is president of the film division ...
UMD Language Research Center Names Amy Weinberg Executive Director
Posted On Friday, January 11, 2013 By USA Education News. Under MARYLAND Tags: Advanced Study of Language, Patrick O’Shea, Richard Brecht, U.S. Department of Defense, University of Maryland
COLLEGE PARK, Md. – The University of Maryland Center for Advanced Study of Language (CASL) has named Amy Weinberg, Ph.D., as its new executive director, replacing Founding Director Richard Brecht, Ph.D., who will retire in January 2013. As CASL’s deputy executive director, Weinberg has been instrumental in molding the center’s ...
University of Maryland Expands Online Learning
Posted On Tuesday, January 8, 2013 By USA Education News. Under FEATURED, MARYLAND Tags: Baltimore County, Chancellor William E. Kirwan, College Park, online learning, University of Maryland
When some University of Maryland, College Park students return to class for the spring semester, they could be attending lectures, taking quizzes and completing group projects without leaving their dorm rooms.
The university is participating in a pilot program that combines massive open online courses with traditional classroom instruction. The Bill ...
