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What happens when sustainability becomes a shared language across cultures? At the University of Maryland, the Global Terps for a Greener Future (GTGF) initiative is showing how environmental action can also build connection, belonging and community across differences.

On May 6, Maryland Global celebrated the power of international education at its Global Classrooms Showcase, spotlighting groundbreaking faculty innovation and the remarkable achievements of students engaged in virtual global collaboration. This year's program reflected the growing momentum of global learning at UMD. This year 570 graduate and undergraduate students participated in 33 Global Classrooms courses and 11 new Global Classrooms were developed.

More than 500 University of Maryland students have studied in locations around the world through the U.S. Department of State’s highly competitive Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship, ranking UMD No. 9 nationally among large institutions for total scholars supported since its 2001 founding.

By School of Public Health StaffVARANASI, India – Outside the ancient city of Varanasi in northern India, UMD undergraduate Zoe Baber ‘27 co-leads a workshop with middle school students at the Vidyashram-South Point School on a book they created telling the story of “Esha” (or E.coli), how it spreads in water and what actions can prevent it.

University of Maryland President Darryll J. Pines will join global higher education leaders at the Universitas 21 Annual Network Meeting and Leadership Summit hosted by the University of Glasgow April 20–23, 2026.

Daniel Lee knows what it feels like to arrive somewhere unfamiliar and find your footing. As an international graduate student from South Korea pursuing a Master’s degree in higher education, student affairs and international education policy, he came to the University of Maryland carrying what he describes as "a little bit of imposter syndrome."Lee’s experience navigating U.S. higher education, and learning how to see his international perspective as an asset helped shape global learning at UMD and who it is designed for.