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September 17, 2025

Are you wondering how to get connected at SPH? Whether it's your first year and you're looking to make new connections, your last year and you want to go out strong, or you just want to hang out, enjoy free food and win prizes, Welcome Week has an event for everyone! Our fourth annual Welcome Week...

September 16, 2025

This summer’s Juneteenth celebrations in the historic African American community of Sandy Spring were lively, musical and rich with storytelling from residents descended from formerly enslaved Black people who gained freedom within one of Maryland’s oldest Quaker communities.

September 15, 2025

After Zaila Avant-garde correctly spelled “Murraya” to win the 2021 Scripps National Spelling Bee, the confetti had barely finished raining down on stage before the scholarship offers started pouring in. Most came from universities in the eighth-grader’s home state of Louisiana, but not all. Univer...

August 14, 2025

This summer, Dr. Jennifer D. Roberts brought her research on nature, physical activity and health equity directly to the community with a new summer camp aiming to get high schoolers into green spaces in Buffalo, NY. The camp, called BET In FLO (Buffalo Eastside Teens in Frederick Law Olmsted Parks)...

August 11, 2025

When freshmen arrive at the University of Maryland (UMD), they’re placed in orientation classes designed to ease the transition into college life. But transfer students, many of whom come from two-year colleges and have already earned associate’s degrees, are often navigating a new campus, major req...

July 18, 2025

Biostatistics plays a vital and growing role in the field of public health, providing the analytical foundation for understanding health trends and making evidence-based decisions. As the volume and complexity of health data increases, especially in this new age of artificial intelligence (AI), ther...