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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.

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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.
April 26, 2025 Communication

Battling Misinformation in a Post-Pandemic World

Assistant Professor Becca Beets on the challenges of communicating about science.
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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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Hyperallergic

A Shape-Shifting Artist, 87 Years Young

April 28, 2019 Art, David C. Driskell Center for the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora

Over the course of a 70-year-career, David Driskell has been making art about memory, jazz, cities, spirituality, and nature.

College of Arts & Humanities Gets $1M to Endow History of Natural Sciences Professorship

April 25, 2019 History

Gift from American Institute of Physics will also support research collaborations and student opportunities.
Free Republic

Dialogue Breaks Out at Middle East Studies Conference; No Injuries Reported

April 22, 2019 College of Arts and Humanities

University of Maryland Professor Sahar Khamis condemned Trump’s withdrawal from the Iran nuclear agreement because the “reasonable voices have been saying that was an excellent treaty.”
WDIO

UMD Hosts Undergraduate Research and Artistic Showcase

April 18, 2019 College of Arts and Humanities

UMD gave undergrads from all five U of M colleges a chance to showcase their research projects to the community.
Art Daily

DC Moore Gallery Opens Exhibition by Legendary African American Artist David Driskell

April 17, 2019 College of Arts and Humanities

David Driskell, Emeritus professor at the University of Maryland, to have exhibition in DC Moore Gallery.

Stanley Plumly, Acclaimed Poet and UMD Professor, Dies at 79

April 17, 2019 English

An inspiring teacher, his poems and nonfiction were celebrated for their honesty and elegance.
The Sentinel

'Street Scene' spurs discussion of stylistic genres, immigration

April 17, 2019 The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center

This production, on stage now at the The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at the University of Maryland at College Park, is the work of three pivotal artists in their fields: poet Langston Hughes, playwright Elmer Rice and composer Kurt Weill.

The Scale of Everything

April 15, 2019 English

UMD English professor named Guggenheim and American Council of Learned Societies fellow.

DC Metro - Theater Arts

When BSO’s OrchKids Show Up, Good Things Happen.

April 15, 2019 School of Music

The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra's OrchKids program offers direction through music.