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New director to continue crucial work of prevention research
The UMD Prevention Research Center (UMD-PRC) welcomes a new director, associate professor in the Department of Behavioral and Community Health, Elizabeth Aparicio, who brings extensive experience in community-engaged health research on sexual and reproductive health and mental health among trauma-af...View Article Details for New director to continue crucial work of prevention research -
SPH project equips urban farms to safely harvest rainwater
In Maryland’s rich agricultural flatlands around Upper Marlboro, a group of scientists, contractors and farmers braved the heat on a June day at UMD’s Terp Farm at the Central Maryland Research & Education Center to gain hands-on skills around safe rainwater harvesting in urban agricultural sett...View Article Details for SPH project equips urban farms to safely harvest rainwater -
Spotlight: Samantha Snyder, PhD '25
Dr. Samantha Snyder, Ph.D. ’25, has always been interested in human movement. With a freshly minted doctorate in kinesiology from the School of Public Health, Snyder is wasting no time, already applying her diverse skills to make a difference for people with knee osteoarthritis, a common and painful...View Article Details for Spotlight: Samantha Snyder, PhD '25 -
More rural, minoritized people get amputations – AI gets closer to why
Why do rural adults and racial and ethnic minorities with vascular disease get major leg amputations more often? A new study out today in Epidemiology uses artificial intelligence (AI) to solve the mystery, finding an unaccounted-for factor that researchers think points to implicit bias in the clini...View Article Details for More rural, minoritized people get amputations – AI gets closer to why -
Spotlight: Hannah Altberger ’25
This May, Hannah Altberger became the first ever graduate of a social data science major on the public health track. “Getting to pioneer the major was so cool,” Altberger said. “I just happened to be the first one to graduate with this degree, and I think that is such an honor.”View Article Details for Spotlight: Hannah Altberger ’25 -
Building bridges between education and the real world
As a young man, Cory Easton knew he wanted to work in health care and help a lot of people, but he didn’t feel he had the academic chops to be a doctor. So he became more interested in the business of health and, ultimately, in how to ensure people got the medicine they needed at the right time, for...View Article Details for Building bridges between education and the real world