UMD Campus Pantry offers range of free groceries, dry goods for community members

By Isabela Torkamboor
The Campus Pantry at the University of Maryland offers a range of free groceries for students and faculty. In order to keep its shelves stocked requires a network of donations, regular deliveries and student employees to make food available.  Continue reading UMD Campus Pantry offers range of free groceries, dry goods for community members

UMD Iranian community expresses war concerns, fear over families’ safety

By Stella Henretta
Many UMD Iranian and Iranian American students and faculty have offered different perspectives on the United States’ military intervention in Iran, and expressed fear over family who are under constant threat of foreign attacks. Continue reading UMD Iranian community expresses war concerns, fear over families’ safety

Embrace Race holds end-of-semester open house, reflects on year

By Vanessa Reis “I want to see our conversations around equity and inclusion expand to include our faculty and staff, not just students,” said committee member Jazmin Pichardo at the end-of-semester “Embrace Race” reception held Tuesday in Stamp Student Union. Embrace Race is a “learning community for faculty and staff on campus around engaging conversations about race, racial justice, privilege and power,” said Pichardo, who … Continue reading Embrace Race holds end-of-semester open house, reflects on year

Meet the neuroscientist behind the new Cole Field House

The year was 1970 and a 7-year-old Elizabeth “Betsy” Quinlan had asked her mother for a watch on Christmas Eve. With no time to buy her a watch, her parents instead gave her the microscope they had already bought, and although she could never make anything on time, the gift spurred a lifelong love of science. Now a professor in the Department of Biology at … Continue reading Meet the neuroscientist behind the new Cole Field House