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Safe Drinking Water Webinar #1

Are you a Marylander who is interested in keeping your home's drinking water clean and safe? We invite you to join our University of Maryland research team for a free, interactive webinar on home drinking water quality on Thursday, May 28th at 6:00 PM via Zoom. Whether you use a private well or...

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Spotlight: Vinay Kumar ‘26

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. 

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Growing vegetables—and curiosity

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. 

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UMD BioFIRE Student Becomes Program’s First Doctoral Graduate

On May 19, Jinyi “Cornelia” Zhu (B.S. ’19, public health science) will slip on her doctoral regalia and walk across the Reckord Armory commencement stage at the University of Maryland with her fellow biological sciences Ph.D. graduates. Her achievement is extra meaningful because Zhu is the first-ever BioFIRE program participant to complete a Ph.D.

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Professor appointed to Maryland Wellmobile Advisory Board

Gov. Wes Moore has appointed Dr. Stephen B. Thomas, professor of health policy and management at UMD’s School of Public Health and director of the Maryland Center for Health Equity (M-CHE), to serve as a health expertise member of the Governor’s Wellmobile Program Advisory Board. 

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Student-run study abroad inspires creative public health approaches

VARANASI, India – Outside the ancient city of Varanasi in northern India, UMD undergraduate Zoe Baber ‘27 co-leads a workshop with middle school students at the Vidyashram-South Point School on a book they created telling the story of “Esha” (or E.coli), how it spreads in water and what actions can prevent it.

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