Skip to main content
Wide-angle view of McKeldin Library with lens flare.

News

Maryland Global News

  • Noodles on an international grocery store shelf

    A Taste of Ethnographic Research

    A new University of Maryland class lets students digest the importance of culinary traditions to the state’s immigrant communities.

  • Taiwanese delegation group poses with dean holding a Maryland English Institute banner

    UMD College of Education Program Trains Taiwanese Delegation to Use English for Classroom Instruction

    The University of Maryland College of Education hosted a delegation of 16 professors from Taiwan in February for a two-week training program focused on using English as a medium of instruction.

  • UMD students teleconference with students in Uganda

    'Design is a Universal Language'

    University of Maryland classroom joins forces with students from Uganda Martyrs University by way of a teleconferenced global charrette—a collaborative design challenge—to create architectural plans for each other’s communities and design across cultural divides.

  • Student tests water in Tanzania

    AquaSafe: ‘Doing Good’ in Tanzania

    As SPH doctoral student Ibiyinka Amokeodo listened to Tanzanian farmers’ worries about the safety of the water they use on their crops and in their homes. She had her lightbulb moment: Aquasafe. The project supports farmers by providing affordable water testing kits and education on water quality management, including how to improve crop safety and local public health through monitoring contamination in irrigation water.

  • College of Education Dean Kimberly Griffin (left) hosts Jody Olsen Ph.D. '79 for a discussion Friday about her recent memoir, “A Million Miles: My Peace Corps Journey.”  Photo by Tatiana Herrera

    Lessons From a Life of Peace Corps Service

    Jody Olsen Ph.D. ’79 reflects on her six decade career in the Peace Corps. Olsen reflects on how the Peace Corps changed the way she views the world and herself, the commonalities she discovered across vastly different cultures, and how building relationships grounded in trust and respect can change communities and save lives.

  • Emma Weikert '24 (anthropology) and Brooke Ayers '25 (anthropology and geography) point to a nearly whole 19th century cream pan—a large bowl for making cream or separating milk from cream—they uncovered from an old trash heap in Lackaghane, County Cork. Since 2018, Associate Professor of anthropology Stephen Brighton has led students in excavations of 18th and 19th century Irish cabins in the townland.

    Crystal Clear: Centuries-Old Stones Uncovered by Archaeologist Reveal Stories of Ireland’s Mystical Past

    University of Maryland anthropologist Stephen Brighton research spotlights the decades in Ireland before and after the 19th century potato famine, a period of abject poverty under British rule. The associate professor of anthropology is the only American licensed to lead excavations on the Emerald Isle, and part of a small group of archaeologists dedicated to that time period in Ireland.


Maryland Global Newsletter

Subscribe to the Maryland Global newsletter for the latest news, opportunities and events related to global learning, research and partnership at the University of Maryland. Distribution occurs monthly during the fall and spring terms.

Subscribe to the Maryland Global newsletter

View past editions.


University News

Two smiling parents and smiling daughter, all with M face paint and Terps gear, pose on McKeldin Mall

Tarantulas, Tours and Tailgates

UMD Welcomes Thousands for Family Weekend
View Article Tarantulas, Tours and Tailgates
Rising water

UMD-Led Systems Provide Real-Time Weather, Flooding Alerts for Marylanders

Sensor Networks Stretch Across Maryland, Line the Chesapeake
View Article UMD-Led Systems Provide Real-Time Weather, Flooding Alerts for Marylanders
Robert Chester stands in front of bookshelves filled with DVDs and books, wearing a teal shirt and crossing his arms

A Peek Inside … American Studies Senior Lecturer Robert Chester’s Office

Film Historian’s Massive Movie Collection, Memorabilia Fill Homey Office
View Article A Peek Inside … American Studies Senior Lecturer Robert Chester’s Office
Back to Top