Starting this week and through the summer, we'll be posting stories of some of our outstanding 2026 graduates. Check our news pages or follow us on Instagram and LinkedIn to read these as they're posted. 

With three people dead and 11 cases from the recent hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship, UMD’s internationally renowned expert on airborne viruses, Dr.

On a bright spring afternoon, a group of bubbly fifth-graders descended upon a small garden patch outside of University Park Elementary School to get pollinator plants settled in the dirt. They tipped coneflowers out of their plastic pots, wiggled their fingers through the plants’ roots to break them loose, plunged shovels and trowels into the garden bed and patted dirt back onto the native plants before giving them a cool drink of water. 

With graduation on the horizon, the Association of Black Public Health Students at UMD (ABPHS) hosted a conversation with Dr.

It looks and feels like an internship, but these real-life projects take place in the classroom.