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October 06, 2025 School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Spanish and Portuguese

Bad Bunny as Scholarly Subject?

UMD course explores Puerto Rico’s soundscape of protest and poetics.
October 02, 2025 Roshan Institute for Persian Studies, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

Roshan Institute to Establish Persian Digital Library

Supported by $1.8M private gift, project will be first of its kind.
September 18, 2025 Art History and Archaeology

Message From Met's Social Media Manager: Museums Are for Everyone

Alum uses digital platforms to spotlight overlooked voices.
September 08, 2025 English

Lillian-Yvonne Bertram on ‘Writing with Machines’

The poet and professor discusses computational poetics, the history of machine-made texts and their vision for UMD’s new Studio for Literary Technology.
September 08, 2025 Communication, Linguistics

UMD Researchers Will Use AI to Help Boost HPV Vaccine Confidence

New $2.8M NIH grant funds interdisciplinary chatbot project with UMB.
June 20, 2025 College of Arts and Humanities, School of Music

A New Spin on an Enduring Protest Album

ARHU dean’s new book examines messages of Fela Kuti.
May 21, 2025 Art History and Archaeology

A Future in Conservation

At UMD, graduating senior Lylah Messinger restored a 2,500-year-old Etruscan vase. Now she’s headed to graduate school in London.

May 20, 2025 Communication

From Fan to Force in Sports Media

Graduating senior Connor Perkins leverages creativity, drive and a love of sports to carve his path in digital content creation.

May 05, 2025 College of Arts and Humanities, English

How Matthew Kirschenbaum Sees AI’s Impact

The Distinguished University Professor of English is a leading voice on how AI is transforming the way we communicate, educate and govern.
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ARHU In The News

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver October 02, 2025

Netanyahu: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

An article, co-written by Ilai Saltzman, director of the Gildenhorn Institute, was recently featured on the HBO program.
The Independent September 11, 2025

Meet the Americans who love 'Downton Abbey'

Research Professor of History Julie Taddeo talks to The Independent.
Against the Grain August 29, 2025

"Technocreep and the Politics of Things Not Seen"

Professor Neda Atanasoski, chair of the Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, discusses her new co-edited book with KPFA's "Against the Grain."

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Opening New Doors To Ibsen’s ‘A Doll House’

February 07, 2020 School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

TDPS’ production of the classic play challenges gender roles.
Maryland Today

Alum Has Grammys on a String

February 04, 2020 School of Music

Boundary-breaking violist performs behind Lizzo.

Sharing The ‘Splendor Of Space’

February 04, 2020 Communication

Alumna Erin Kisliuk ’13 is the social media lead at Hubble Space Telescope.

The Diamondback

Student-Produced Shows Explore Time Travel, Identity at The Clarice

February 03, 2020 School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

The Diamondback reviews School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies performance.

The Atlantic

How Andrew Yang Quieted the Asian American Right

February 03, 2020 American Studies

Opposition to affirmative action was pulling Asians toward the GOP. Then Yang’s campaign began to gather momentum.
Maryland Today

An Activist’s Art

January 30, 2020 David C. Driskell Center for the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora

New exhibit highlights Romare Bearden’s work seeking social change.
Politico

Donald Trump Is Not a Doctor. But He Plays One on Twitter.

January 30, 2020 Communication

And that’s a prescription for public health confusion.

Kendra Portier Named Maya Brin Endowed Professor in Dance

January 27, 2020 School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

Artist and teacher Kendra Portier will foster connections among diverse concert dance forms at Maryland.
Maryland Today

‘Rising’ to the Grammys

January 26, 2020 College of Arts and Humanities

Terp DJ is first female producer to earn nomination—and win—for best remixed recording.
Smithsonian Magazine

A Massive New Database Will Connect Billions of Historic Records to Tell the Full Story of American Slavery

January 13, 2020 History

The online resource will offer vital details about the toll wrought on the enslaved.