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title: Making Rooms for History
date: 2021-09-17T17:33:00-04:00
author: University of Maryland
canonical_url: "https://terp.umd.edu/making-rooms-for-history"
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# Making Rooms for History

*September 17, 2021* — by [Sala Levin ’10](/authors/sala-levin-10)


- *Photo by John T. Consoli*

> Pyon-Chen Hall Opens, Honoring Pioneering Terps

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Four hundred and fifty students, including student-athletes and members of living-learning communities, moved this semester into [Pyon-Chen Hall](http://reslife.umd.edu/halls/heritage/pyon-chen/), UMD’s newest residence hall, named for two trailblazing alums.

The six-story high-rise overlooking La Plata Beach honors Pyon Su, who became the first Korean student to receive any degree from an American higher education institution when he earned a bachelor’s degree from the then-Maryland Agricultural College in 1891, and Chunjen Constant Chen, the first Chinese student to enroll in the college in 1915. He received a master’s degree in agriculture in 1920.


*Pyon-Chen Hall interior*


*Inforaphic: 6 stories, 131,000 square feet, 450 residents, 11 study rooms*


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[youtube video Making Rooms for History](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Y1tGH327Kg)





**Issue:** [Fall 2021](https://terp.umd.edu/editions/fall-2021)


**Types:** [News](https://terp.umd.edu/category/news)