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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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Parents of Google Co-founder Donate $9 Million to UMD

March 09, 2021 School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

UMD receives $9 million gift.
Maryland Today

Student Artists Capture Spirit of Black Lives Matter

March 08, 2021 Art

Sadat Art for Peace Competition winners announced.

Remembering Mike Long

March 05, 2021 School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

A professor at UMD for 16 years, Long was a towering figure in the field of second language acquisition.

Communication Professor Receives Jefferson Science Fellowship at State Department

March 05, 2021 Communication

Erich Sommerfeldt will take an advisory role with the U.S. Department of State.

Virtual Arts & Humanities and Education Deans’ Lecture Featuring Monique W. Morris

March 04, 2021 College of Arts and Humanities

Award-winning author and social justice scholar discusses the criminalization of Black girls in schools.
The Harvard Gazette

New Database Tracks Data on Slaves, Slavers, and Allies

March 04, 2021 History

Created through collaboration of Harvard, Maryland, Michigan State and others.

Summit Creates Celebratory Space for BIPOC and LGBTQ+ Dance Artists

March 02, 2021 The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center

The BlackLight Summit convenes dancers, choreographers and scholars from across the country for virtual conversations, workshops and performances.
Dance Magazine

This New Virtual Festival Centers BIPOC and LGBTQ+ Artists

March 02, 2021 The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center

BlackLight Summit featured in Dance Magazine.
New York Times

How a Scrappy Arts Group Survived the ’90s

February 25, 2021 School of Music

Bang on a Can, a contemporary music organization, fought government cuts with an innovative crowdfunding program.

Making Space for Black Art in Academic Art History

February 25, 2021 Art History and Archaeology

Through her teaching, research and beyond, Jordana Moore Saggese is working to undo the ‘colonialist and white supremacist logic’ that has pervaded the field of art history.