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May 23, 2023

Published this month in the Journal for Alzheimer’s Disease Reports, the study examined the brains and story recollection abilities of older adults with normal brain function and those diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment, which is a slight decline in mental abilities like memory, reasoning and ...

May 12, 2023

The University of Maryland School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation and the School of Public Health announced today the awardees of their inaugural Healthy Places Seed Grants - a funding program designed to spark innovative research around the challenges of building healthy, equitable commu...

March 30, 2023

The University of Maryland-led center will generate nature-based research, honor communities historically disenfranchised from nature and use programs to advocate the restorative benefits of nature.

March 29, 2023

Professor Amelia Arria, director of the Center on Young Adult Health and Development and an expert on the risk of substance use problems among adolescents and young adults, discusses how this change may impact the health of teens and adults.

March 17, 2023

The study, published March 16 in Obstetrics & Gynecology, found pregnancy-related deaths climbed to 45.5 per 100,000 live births in 2021, up from rates of 36.7 in 2020 and 29 pre-pandemic. The deaths include people who died while pregnant or within one year of the end of their pregnancy due to a con...

March 13, 2023

Funded by a $3 million Institutional Grant from the University of Maryland Grand Challenges Program, the international and interdisciplinary Global FEWture Alliance will focus on alleviating food, energy and water insecurity, protecting environmental and global public health and bolstering community...