The Horowitz Center for Health Literacy is hosting a teach-in series focused on understanding and responding to information and claims about the coronavirus pandemic, racial justice protests, and the 2020 elections and their aftermath. While the events of 2020 have overshadowed many aspects of...

Join PHACE (Public Health Action Through Civic Engagement) on Wednesday, April 21, for its Spring Leadership Forum! The event will feature speakers from a variety of UMD School of Public Health departments and conversations on topics, such as identity and wellness. The forum will begin with a guided...

On Friday, May 7, join us for the inaugural Clark-Whitall Endowed Lectureship in Motor Development! This year's guest speaker is Dr. Karl M. Newell from the Department of Kinesiology at the University of Georgia in Athens. About Dr. Newell: Dr. Newell was born and raised in Brighton, England. He...

The Bowie State-UMD Social Justice Alliance (SJA) will sponsor its first joint event in honor of Lt. Richard Collins, the Bowie State student who was murdered by an SPH student over graduation weekend in 2017. The event will feature a Q&A panel with student leaders from both campuses, guests from...

Welcome to the Spring semester! As we continue in this syndemic, Zoom world, stress can have a way of taking over. To help alleviate stress and clear your mind please join the UMD Global STEWARDS NSF NRT program for Mindfulness Mondays! We meet every Monday from 9:00-9:15 am for a 10-minute guided...

Join Nature Rx@UMD for a special talk on Nature, Race and Relational Trauma by Beth Collier, a "nature allied" psychotherapist and ethnographer who teaches woodland living skills and natural history. Her work explores relationships with people and with nature. “Nature offers us the core conditions...

Join the School of Public Health for an Innovation in Public Health Seminar that will feature the presentation of the Gold "Creativity in Crisis" Prize. Because the COVID-19 pandemic has presented challenges to holding the annual Gold Public Health Innovation Award competition, as usual, this year's...