UMD Initiative Supporting the Health of Md. Veterans
Posted On Tuesday, November 12, 2013 By USA Education News. Under MARYLAND Tags: Maryland Department of Health, Maryland Veterans Resilience Initiative, Mental Hygiene, School of Public Health, University of Maryland
COLLEGE PARK, Md. – More than 28,000 Maryland veterans have returned home from the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, and most have made a successful transition to civilian life. But for some, the road home from war has included challenges unique to their military service. The Maryland Veterans Resilience Initiative ...
A Unique Look into Mild Traumatic Brain Injuries
Posted On Monday, November 4, 2013 By USA Education News. Under MARYLAND Tags: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Henry Haslach, Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, University of Maryland, University of Maryland's Fischell
COLLEGE PARK, Md. – University of Maryland Department of Mechanical Engineering faculty and graduate students have published new research in the Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials that could shed light on the mechanical cause underlying mild traumatic brain injuries (mTBI).
Recent media coverage of athletes and head injuries ...
Katz Named Director of Maryland Cybersecurity Center
Posted On Sunday, October 27, 2013 By USA Education News. Under MARYLAND Tags: A. James Clark School of Engineering, Jonathan Katz, Maryland Cybersecurity Center, Patrick O’Shea, University of Maryland
COLLEGE PARK, Md. - A noted University of Maryland expert in cryptography and information security will now lead one of the nation's preeminent centers dedicated to cybersecurity research and education.
Jonathan Katz, professor of computer science, was appointed to a three-year term as director of the Maryland Cybersecurity Center (MC2) effective ...
UMD Book Named ‘Must Read’ Before Graduation
Posted On Sunday, October 20, 2013 By USA Education News. Under MARYLAND Tags: Leadership for a Better World, National Clearinghouse for Leadership Programs, University of Alberta, University of Maryland
COLLEGE PARK, Md. – A book by University of Maryland faculty and students has recently been recognized as one of the top 10 books every student must read before graduation. The list, compiled by students at the University of Alberta, was recently featured in The Huffington Post.
The UMD book, "Leadership ...
Fight against Hunger Heads to UMD
Posted On Saturday, October 5, 2013 By USA Education News. Under MARYLAND Tags: College of Agriculture’, HungerU Tour, Natural Resources, University of Maryland
COLLEGE PARK, Md. - University of Maryland students in the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources (AGNR) are helping to stop the world's number one killer – hunger. With the global population projected to expand to 9 billion people by 2050, it will be up to the leaders of tomorrow ...
UMD Joins Big Ten Conference Playwriting Initiative
Posted On Friday, September 27, 2013 By USA Education News. Under MARYLAND Tags: Big Ten Conference schools, Big Ten Theatre Chairs, John F. Kennedy Center, TDPS, The New York Times, University of Maryland
COLLEGE PARK, Md. – The University of Maryland School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies (TDPS) is partnering with theatre departments at Big Ten Conference schools to create a new playwriting and performance initiative. The group, known as the Big Ten Theatre Chairs, plans to commission, produce and publicize as ...
Building Trust between Minorities and Researchers
Posted On Wednesday, September 11, 2013 By USA Education News. Under MARYLAND Tags: Dr. Sandra C. Quinn, Dr. Stephen B. Thomas, Maryland Center for Health Equity, School of Public Health, University of Maryland
COLLEGE PARK, Md. – The University of Maryland's Maryland Center for Health Equity (M-CHE) has launched a new online educational program—Building Trust Between Minorities and Researchers—which seeks to close the gap in racial and ethnic health disparities. The program does so by providing culturally tailored information and skills to minority ...
Wise Old Birds Help Whooping Cranes Stay on Course
Posted On Wednesday, September 4, 2013 By USA Education News. Under MARYLAND Tags: nature's great mysteries, Thomas Mueller, UMD biologist, University of Maryland, Whooping Cranes
COLLEGE PARK, Md. – Scientists have studied bird migration for centuries, but it remains one of nature's great mysteries. How do birds find their way over long distances between breeding and wintering sites? Is their migration route encoded in their genes, or is it learned?
Working with records from a long-term ...
Changes in River Chemistry Affect Water Supplies
Posted On Tuesday, August 27, 2013 By USA Education News. Under MARYLAND Tags: Alkalinity, Paradoxically, Sujay Kaushal, University of Maryland, Unversity of Connecticut
COLLEGE PARK, Md. – Human activities are changing the basic chemistry of many rivers in the Eastern U.S., with potentially major consequences for urban water supplies and aquatic ecosystems, a University of Maryland-led study has found.
In the first survey of its kind, researchers looked at long-term records of alkalinity trends ...
UMD 38th among World’s Top Universities
Posted On Tuesday, August 20, 2013 By USA Education News. Under MARYLAND Tags: 2013 Academic Ranking of World Universities, ARWU, Times Higher Education, Top Universities, University of Maryland
COLLEGE PARK, Md. – The University of Maryland again has placed among the world's top universities in the 2013 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU). The ARWU, which is released each year by the Center for World-Class Universities at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, ranks UMD No. 38 overall in the ...
UMD Taps Seasoned Fundraiser to Lead University Development Efforts
Posted On Monday, August 12, 2013 By USA Education News. Under MARYLAND Tags: Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University, Mary Burke, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Peter Weiler, University of Maryland
COLLEGE PARK, Md. – Following the successful completion of a $1 billion fundraising campaign, the University of Maryland has appointed Mary Burke as the new assistant vice president of university development. In this role, Burke will provide overall leadership and management to the university development program, overseeing fundraising teams in ...
Climate Changes Will Produce Wine Winners and Losers
Posted On Monday, August 5, 2013 By USA Education News. Under MARYLAND Tags: Antonio Busalacchi, Eric Hackert, Joint Scientific Committee, University of Maryland
COLLEGE PARK, Md. – In the not too distant future, your favorite French wine may not come from its namesake region or even from France!
Climate change is altering growing conditions in wine producing regions and in coming decades will change the wines produced there, in some cases shifting to new ...
Mapping the Brain To Understand Cultural Differences
Posted On Sunday, July 21, 2013 By USA Education News. Under MARYLAND Tags: cross-cultural psychologist, Klaus Boehnke, Luiz Pessoa, Michele Gelfand, Shinobu Kitayama, University of Maryland
COLLEGE PARK, Md. – A University of Maryland-led research team is working to help diplomats, military personnel, global managers and others who operate abroad to peer inside the minds of people from very different cultures.
With a three-year, $813,000 grant from the Department of Defense researchers will literally get inside the ...
UMD Gets New Look into Life after ‘The Great Fire’
Posted On Sunday, July 14, 2013 By USA Education News. Under MARYLAND Tags: Board of Trustee, Jason Speck, Maryland Agricultural College, The Great Fire of 1912, University of Maryland
COLLEGE PARK, Md. – A new discovery has given the University of Maryland added insight into what happened in the time immediately following The Great Fire of 1912—a time that has been, until now, largely undocumented. Recently uncovered in the garage of the heir to Sterling Byrd's estate, son of ...
UMD Statement on Fisher v. University of Texas
Posted On Saturday, June 29, 2013 By USA Education News. Under MARYLAND Tags: Abigail Fisher, broadest diversity, Supreme Court, University of Maryland, University of Texa
COLLEGE PARK, Md. - Earlier this week, the Supreme Court ruled on Fisher v. University of Texas, referring the case to a lower court for further review. This case involves the race-based admissions policy of the University of Texas at Austin, brought to court by Abigail Fisher in 2008. Fisher, ...
UMD Joins Leading Research University Global Network
Posted On Saturday, June 22, 2013 By USA Education News. Under MARYLAND Tags: global footprint, High-impact partnerships, Ross Lewin, University of Connecticut, University of Maryland
COLLEGE PARK, Md. – The University of Maryland has expanded its global footprint, joining the leading international network of research universities, Universitas 21 (U21). UMD is one of only four U.S. universities in the network.
With 27 institutions in 17 countries, U21 members collaborate to develop research partnerships and exchanges for ...
No Good Substitute for Race in College Admissions
Posted On Saturday, June 15, 2013 By USA Education News. Under MARYLAND Tags: American Educational Research Journal, Julie J. Park, socio-economic, U.S. Supreme Court, University of Maryland
COLLEGE PARK, Md. – As the U.S. Supreme Court decides in a case involving racial preferences in higher education admissions (Fisher v. Texas), new University of Maryland-led research finds that socioeconomic diversity is no replacement for a direct consideration of race, as some have suggested. Still the research finds that ...
Peer Pressure Starts in Childhood, Not with Teens
Posted On Saturday, June 8, 2013 By USA Education News. Under MARYLAND Tags: Child Development, cliquishness, Melanie Killen, Psychologist, University of Maryland
COLLEGE PARK, Md. – Peer group influences affect children much earlier than researchers have suspected, finds a new University of Maryland-led study. The researchers say it provides a wake-up call to parents and educators to look out for undue group influences, cliquishness and biases that might set in early, the ...
