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  • Student tests water in Tanzania

    AquaSafe: ‘Doing Good’ in Tanzania

    This article was originally published by the School of Public Health.by Fid Thompson

  • 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

    By John TuckerThe four small crystals found on the land in County Cork where a farmhouse had been torched a century ago stood out among more typical artifacts. There were no natural deposits of quartz in this rustic hillside near the Irish coastline.University of Maryland anthropologist Stephen Brighton and his students digging 23 inches into the soil in the summer of 2018 had also revealed a foundation with a kitchen and cast-iron pot still attached to a wall, along with buttons, cufflinks, a glass inkwell and a copper alloy candlestick.

  • 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

    By Emily SchusterIn 1966, Jody Olsen Ph.D. ’79 joined the Peace Corps as a young newlywed, yearning to explore places very different from the conservative Mormon community in Utah where she grew up. She soon did at her first posting in Tunisia, spending time daily with a Muslim extended family and learning about their views on patriarchy, elders and in-home religious ceremonies as they built a deep friendship.

  • From left, geology Assistant Professor Megan Newcombe, master's student Kathryn Bickerstaff '23 and Ph.D. student Kathleen Stepien sort through rocks at Tasmania's Mornington Core Storage Facility.

    Geologists Explore Tasmania’s Hidden Gems

    By Emily C. NunezThe scent of eucalyptus and tea trees carried on a breeze, and the bizarre charm of long-snouted marsupials were a few of the natural wonders two faculty members and two graduate students from the University of Maryland’s Department of Geology experienced on a recent research trip to Tasmania. But their real focus was a different—and literal—kind of gem. 

  • John Samura, Masters student in agricultural and extension education, checks out an innovative irrigation system at Cultivaid's demo farm in Dodoma, Tanzania.

    Students grasp Tanzania's food-energy-water realities

    By Fid ThompsonIn a small village in the lush blue-green hills of Tanzania’s southern highlands, farmers are sharing their biggest challenges with a group of graduate students from University of Maryland. 


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