The Student Experience

New Ice Cream Flavor Celebrates Student’s Love for UM

UM in the Community

Student Cyclists Raise Money, See the World

Campus Developments

Rooftop Garden Benefits From Summer TLC

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Open House Highlights UMD Robotics Research

openhousehighlightsThe scene looked eerily similar to a 1980s Arnold Schwarzenegger sci-fi movie: Large robotic arms reached out toward visitors, miniature electronic alligators scooted across the floor, metallic birds flapped overhead and leaf-shaped wings buzzed through hallways…    Read more.

Faculty Focus

Distinguished University Professors

dupPresenting the university’s newest distinguished university professors. An academic honor of highest distinction, this award is given to a limited number of our most accomplished professors…    Read more.

The Student Experience

Young Poet Publishes Book of “Rich” Work

youngpoetWhether musing about the transience of goals or the logic of emotion, Sohayl Vafai’s 18-year-old mind has wrapped itself around concepts that others take a lifetime to realize…    Read more.

More Student Experience:

UMD in the Community

Student Cyclists Raise Money, See the Country

communitybikesTaking in D.C. from the seat of his Cannondale F5 bike, Steven Rockwood felt ecstatic to see Georgetown’s Fletcher’s Cove, the first recognizable landmark he’d laid eyes on in two months…    Read more.

Campus Developments

Rooftop Garden Benefits From Summer TLC

rooftopgardenThe lush rooftop garden on the North Campus Diner for the last couple of summers has been harvested and reduced to a drab and lifeless cement lot right around the time students returned to campus…    Read more.

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