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Arts for All, College of Arts and Humanities, School of Music

Students Turn Climate Change Into Sound

Clarice Assad’s Arts for All residency culminates in a student-created album.

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December 08, 2025

Material Culture, Collective Memory and the Work of Repair

American studies Ph.D. student Hannah Brancato combines scholarship, art and community to understand trauma and possibility.
December 05, 2025

How Professor John Drabinski Wrote Three Books at Once

How Black vernacular culture, Baldwin and the Atlantic world shape his latest scholarship.
December 04, 2025

UMD Launches Global Culture and Thought Major

New program emphasizes international cultures and languages to prepare graduates for an increasingly globalized world.
December 03, 2025

Listening in on Lessons from 'We Are the World'

Dean teaches ARHU course on arts and humanities of a single song.
December 02, 2025

Art Exhibition Offers Intimate Look at Giant of Modern Chinese History

Calligrapher, political reformer and higher ed activist helped overthrow Qing Dynasty in 1912.
November 11, 2025

Book Club Opens New Worlds for Incarcerated Women

UMD English professor co-leads volunteer program set to add graduate students following bequest.
October 28, 2025

Testudo, Meet Tuxedo

UMD mascot officially debuts spiffy custom-made outfit (with more to come).
October 15, 2025

AI-Generated Iceberg Models Could Help Sailors Navigate Arctic Waters

UMD researchers in computer science, art and earth science collaborate on 3D renderings.
October 08, 2025

The Art and Humanity of AI

From classrooms to research labs, the College of Arts and Humanities is shaping how we understand artificial intelligence and guiding its responsible future.
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ARHU In The News

Ms. October 14, 2025

‘Freedom Is Worth Struggle’

Bonnie Thornton Dill accepts the University of Maryland’s highest honor.
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.

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Announcing ‘Rhyme & Reason’ the Podcast

June 04, 2024

ARHU launches a new podcast that features faculty voices exploring timely topics related to race, equity and justice.

Announcing New Exhibition, Dewey Crumpler: Life Studies

June 03, 2024

Fall exhibition opening September 6, 2024 from 5 - 7 p.m.

Five Must-Read Summer Book Picks by Asian and Asian American Authors

May 30, 2024

AAPI Literature and Media Club Founder and President Julie Cha ’25 recommends top reads.

On Memorial Day, A Moving Rendition of Taps in D.C.

May 28, 2024

Distinguished University Professor Chris Gekker has played the trumpet—and taps—for decades. But it carries special resonance on Memorial Day.

Congratulations ARHU Graduates!

May 24, 2024

A celebratory recap of Commencement 2024.

TDPS Faculty and Alums Win 2024 Helen Hayes Awards

May 24, 2024

Professor Misha Kachman and alums Frank Labovitz, Alberto Segarra, Kelly Colburn and Dylan Uremovich were recognized for their achievements in DMV theater.
USA Today

As Trump's Trial Nears an End, the Bidens Prep for a Month in Legal Purgatory

May 24, 2024

Professor of Communication Trevor Parry-Giles featured in USA Today.

Communication Alum Wins Pulitzer for Washington Post AR-15 Series

May 21, 2024

Emily Guskin ’06 is a polling analyst at the Post.

Using Art to Transform ‘Something So Ugly’ into ‘Something So Beautiful’

May 21, 2024

Maggie Letvin ’24, an ARHU triple major, said UMD showed them they can’t live life without making art.

ARHU Alum Awarded Foreign Service Fellowship

May 17, 2024

History grad Julie Choi ’20 will pursue master’s study abroad, foreign service.