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  • 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.

  • 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

    Four scientists from the University of Maryland's Department of Geology traipsed through mud to collect garnets from woods, mines and coastlines on the island south of the Australian mainland affectionately called “Tassie.” Garnets are a multicolored mineral widely used in jewelry and industry, but to geologists, they’re treasured time capsules containing secrets of Earth’s past.

  • 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.

  • 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

    Six Global STEWARDS Fellows to visit Tanzania, hailing from across UMD and bringing diverse expertise to the pressing and interrelated issues of food, energy and water (FEW) in a changing climate. The fellows travelled to Tanzania to engage, learn and share knowledge with local partners, farmers and researchers who are working towards sustainable solutions.

  • From Ashes to Awe

    From Ashes to Awe

    Students and Faculty Mark 20 Years of Excavating and Documenting Little-Known Ruins Near Pompeii

  • UMD-Spring Break: Spain: El Camino de Santiago de Compostela/Saint James Way students pose in front of the shrine of St. James.

    Redefining Pilgrimage: The Journey to Santiago de Compostela

    Spanish and Portuguese Lecturer Ginette Alomar Eldredge and the 11 students in her study abroad program trip spent spring break 2024 in Spain on a cultural pilgrimage.


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