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A chamber music piece that critiques Apartheid-era oppression, a poem exploring self-censorship within the LGBTQ community, and a paper etching made from shredded anti-transgender legislation are among student works awarded in the 2024 …

If Gen Z is composed of “digital natives” who never knew a time before smartphones and social media, then the students who clustered around a University of Maryland Extension educator at a Baltimore senior apartment complex last week…

People who take common prescription medications for reducing stomach acid may be more likely to have migraines and other severe headaches compared with people who don’t take them, according to a new study from the University of Maryland.…

Two years ago, the 120 Initiative, a consortium of Washington, D.C.-area universities focused on reducing gun violence, was named for the number of people fatally shot every day in the U.S. Today, that’s outdated; the number is now…

An instrument to detect “moonquakes” developed in part by a University of Maryland geologist is among the scientific equipment recently selected by NASA for its planned return of astronauts to the moon. Once installed near the lunar…

April showers are increasingly becoming deluges due to climate change, and May flowers will never be the same. And it’s not just April; the warming of the planet is causing a year-round, worldwide trend toward more intense but less…

Less than a week after her golden retriever Riley died, information studies Professor Jen Golbeck found him napping in her living room, “curled up like a croissant like he always was,” on his red and gray-fleece dog bed. “It took me…

The steady, percussive clacking reverberating from a classroom in The Clarice has the drive and precision of a full drumline, with just a tiny fraction of the volume. “Give me one!” a voice calls out. “Give me two! Give me three! Break…

Federal grant money available for emissions-cutting projects could be a windfall for local governments looking to go green—if the applications didn’t look so much to municipal staffers like billows of red tape. “Federal grants are no fun…

Dozens of University of Maryland programs earned high rankings in U.S. News & World Report’s 2024-25 Best Graduate Schools lists released Tuesday, with many achieving top-25 placements in overall and specialty categories. Among…