Epidemiology and biostatistics Associate Professor Thu Nguyen and a research team will develop the Asian Americans & Racism: Individual and Structural Experiences (ARISE) cohort of 500 Chinese, Korean and Vietnamese Americans—groups historically underrepresented in the nation's neurologic research.
Naomi Whitaker, Ph.D. ’27, founded the Association for Black Public Health Students at University of Maryland to create a hub and welcome space for Black student researchers.
The University of Maryland Alumni Association will honor Alumni Alyssa T. Krumlauf, Ph.D. '15, with the Spirit of Maryland Award and Veeraj Shah '21 with the Outstanding Young Alumnus Award during its annual "A Celebration of Terps: Featuring The Maryland Awards" event on November 10, 2023 in the Samuel Riggs IV Alumni Center.
Professor Cheryl Knott and University of Connecticut Associate Professor Debarchana Ghosh will develop a measure of county-level structural racism and discrimination as part of a five-year study that aims to fill a gap in preventive cancer-related research in historically underserved communities.
Award funding will support environmental health Assistant Professor Rachel Rosenberg Goldstein's research on the presence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in sewage.
The Mickey Dale Family Foundation has donated $60,000 to the School of Public Health to establish a graduate fellowship that supports students working to understand and subsequently transform attitudes and practices around organ, tissue and cell transplantation in the United States.
