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Features

September 15, 2025
UMD scientists built a fungus that wipes out mosquitoes. With African partners, they hope to save millions of lives.
Ryan Collins poses on bike, with purple background

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September 15, 2025
When his Olympic dreams on the bike came crashing down, Ryan Collins ’16, MBA ’20 struggled to even hold the handlebars. Now he’s racking up records as an elite ultracyclist.
stage in Jack Kay Theatre

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September 15, 2025
For nearly 25 seasons, The Clarice has celebrated theater, music and dance. Terp takes a photographic tour of the landmark center’s first act.
portraits of IAP Cohort 1 on colorful background

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May 14, 2025
A unique scholarship program has transformed the lives of hundreds of UMD students. Twenty-five years later, its pioneers share how.
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May 14, 2025
On the farm and in the lab, researchers are fighting a virus that’s pushing up food prices and threatening a new pandemic
collage of receipt, court documents, photo of two women and red string connected by red pushpins

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May 14, 2025
How Students in UMD’s Forensic Accounting Club Helped Crack a Murder Case
Kan Cao holds flask as she works in lab

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January 15, 2025
A UMD researcher of a rare disease that fatally ages children has discovered how an obscure blue compound could help us all look younger.
Joi Howard poses by brick columns and greenery

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January 15, 2025
Joi Howard ’03 seeks to turn a shuttered, segregated psychiatric hospital into a working farm and wellness site for the Black community.
collage of photos: cars driving on Route 1 at night; students standing in Rendezvous; students dancing; students standing outside on sidewalk; man wearing hat playing pinball with beer; man in aviator sunglasses

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January 15, 2025
No matter the decade, Terps found refuges and ‘Rendezvous’ points on College Park’s Main Street
Connie Chung sitting at a table with her book in front of her

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September 06, 2024
Trailblazing journalist Connie Chung ’69 battled misogyny and racism to reach the pinnacle of TV news. In a new self-titled memoir, she shares what it took to get there.
Collage of athletes in Terp gear

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September 06, 2024
From titles to revenue to academics, Maryland scored by joining the Big Ten Conference. Here are 10 ways it’s been a B1G decade.
Lung illustration with bellhop outline inside. Viruses throughout

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September 06, 2024
A groundbreaking UMD researcher investigating how respiratory infections spread asks volunteers to check in—and get sick for science.
A couple sits behind a table with some card games on it

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May 17, 2024
A Fluctuating, Ever-Changing, Up-and-Down Journey to Gaming Success
The image is a stylized, futuristic illustration that depicts a hilly landscape with a car winding through it.

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May 17, 2024
Ninety-second battery fill-ups. All-day range. Unparalleled safety. UMD researchers are powering up EVs to save the planet.
collection of Terp license plates

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May 17, 2024
UMD-themed vanity plates are the highway four-leaf clovers we love to spot. We share some of the best—and the tales behind the tags.
rainbow turtle, turtle with pink and light blue pattern, "Support #TransTerps" pin. "Debilitating Queerness", "they" pin

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January 16, 2024
Twenty-five years ago, the LGBTQ+ Equity Center opened to support queer Terps who felt invisible, isolated and harassed. Some of the founders recount its humble start and hard-won victories.