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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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Maryland Today

They’ve Got the World on a String—or a Rod

April 03, 2019 The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center

Students bring their Henson-funded puppet creations to the stage.
The Diamondback

“Home away from home”: UMD’s Latinx studies center celebrates 30th anniversary

April 02, 2019 Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center

The Latin American Studies Center celebrated its 30th anniversary on April 2 welcoming four former directors back to reflect on the work the center has done in the last three decades.

Digitizing for the Future

April 01, 2019 School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

University Libraries receives NEH grant to digitize ARHU alumna’s dance archive.
The Talbot Spy

St Michaels Museum’s Annual Meeting April 7

April 01, 2019 English

University of Maryland professor Michael Olmert will discuss how slave hospitals were once prominent on the plantations of the South.
The New York Times

How the Trump Era Is Molding the Next Generation of Voter

April 01, 2019 American Studies

Janelle Wong, a professor of American studies at the University of Maryland.
AccessWDUN

Chinese, astronomy summer camps at UNG open to high school students in Hall, four other counties

March 31, 2019 National Foreign Language Center

A STARTALK grant from the National Security Agency administered by the National Foreign Language Center at the University of Maryland is making the rare combination of instruction possible.
American Theater: A Publication of Theater Communication groups

D.C./Baltimore Named Fastest-Growing Theatre Region by AEA

March 29, 2019 The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center

The Regional Theatre Report finds that D.C./Baltimore theaters provide the most work weeks for actors and stage managers.

News India Times

Teaching Hindi in the U.S. has expanded under the federal STARTALK program

March 28, 2019 National Foreign Language Center

Hindi programs have become popular in a number of states.

Moving Between Musical Worlds

March 28, 2019 School of Music

Tomeka Reid ’00 discusses her journey to becoming a professional musician.

Role Reversal

March 15, 2019 School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

Performers put nontraditional spin on Broadway, Hollywood tunes.