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Solutions for School Safety
When rising junior Om Desai, a public health science major in the School of Public Health and humanities, health, and medicine minor, applied for the xFoundry’s Xperience cohort last-minute this past fall semester, he didn’t think much of it. Yet the pre-health student’s spontaneous decision would p...View Article Details for Solutions for School Safety -
Public Health graduate student recognized for uplifting community wellbeing with Kehoe-Kesler Award
For public health master’s student Nealofar Madani, uplifting the health and wellbeing of others has always been a central theme to her time at the University of Maryland. Madani, who is specializing in Behavioral and Community Health, was recently awarded the Kehoe-Kesler Award for her efforts to e...View Article Details for Public Health graduate student recognized for uplifting community wellbeing with Kehoe-Kesler Award -
Sparking change: SPH program helps students prep for health careers
The Catalyst Initiative, a new program begun by the SPH Public Health Science program, concluded its first-ever Spring 2024 cohort by discussing finances related to pursuing careers in the health professions and recognizing student participants.View Article Details for Sparking change: SPH program helps students prep for health careers -
Student, Recent Alums Awarded Foreign Service Fellowships
Three Terps committed to protecting women’s health, promoting sustainability in agriculture and helping political refugees have been awarded prestigious U.S. State Department graduate fellowships to prepare for careers in the Foreign Service. Mariama Cham ’24 and Julie Choi ’20 were among 45 recipi...View Article Details for Student, Recent Alums Awarded Foreign Service Fellowships -
In the Game of Tag, This Terp’s ‘It’
Even for the slipperiest student on the playground or the most inescapable “it,” the prospect of going pro in tag probably seems like little more than a gym class hero’s daydream. But a University of Maryland alum has taken his talents from the schoolyard to the world stage, with a twist—or maybe a ...View Article Details for In the Game of Tag, This Terp’s ‘It’ -
School of Public Health to Debut Global Health Major, New Department
The University of Maryland School of Public Health announced Tuesday it will launch an undergraduate major in global health along with the Department of Global, Environmental, and Occupational Health (GEOH) in Fall 2024. The department will replace and expand upon the Maryland Institute for Applied ...View Article Details for School of Public Health to Debut Global Health Major, New Department