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September 20, 2024

On Thursday, student organizations, academic programs and other School of Public Health involvement groups gathered for the school’s annual SPH Involvement Fair, held in the School on its ground floor Concourse. The fair is hosted each year to help students get connected and learn more about various...

September 13, 2024

Third-year family science doctoral student Pond Ezra was awarded the 2024 National Council on Family Relations (NCFR) Student Award last month for their work aiming to increase the representation of transgender people in family science in general, in particular in the realm of parenting. The award i...

September 05, 2024

Expanded on-campus services for substance use treatment, a wellness ambassadors group for graduate students and peer-led workshops in living-learning communities are among the new initiatives at the University of Maryland this fall to support mental health. In addition, the Counseling Center will i...

August 29, 2024

2024 Fall semester is off to a great start with new graduate students gathering for orientation, connecting across diverse specialties and backgrounds, hearing from inspiring faculty, getting involved in a lively resource fair and, of course, enjoying ice cream! We took a minute to get to know a f...

August 28, 2024

Tia Cunningham is passionate about supporting students in all the ways – how they connect, how they belong and how they grow beyond UMD into meaningful careers. As the School of Public Health’s Assistant Program Director for Student Engagement, Cunningham oversees the Student Engagement Initiative (...

July 18, 2024

Minoring in humanities, health and medicine behavioral and community health graduate Temitope Akinbiola is working to become a nurse practitioner. She will begin her masters for nursing in the fall at Johns Hopkins University. Akinbiola is passionate about helping communities in need and was awarde...