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UMD Among Tops in Nation for Black Alums Earning Doctorates
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The College of Maryland ranks among the many nation’s high faculties and universities for Black or African American undergraduates who later achieved doctoral levels from 2010 to 2020, based on new knowledge from the Nationwide Science Basis (NSF).
Not solely did UMD tie for eighth amongst all establishments in final week’s report, it was the No. 1 non-historically Black faculty or college (HBCU) by that measure, with 218 Ph.D.s. It’s an achievement for a flagship establishment devoted to serving all of the residents of a state as various as Maryland, stated College of Maryland President Darryll J. Pines.
“It provides me nice pleasure to see the College of Maryland as a nationwide chief in Black or African American bachelor’s diploma graduates who go on to earn a doctorate, and we admire NSF recognizing us as first within the nation after HBCUs,” Pines stated. “We are going to have fun this achievement and get proper again to work nurturing a multicultural campus the place various backgrounds and views are championed.”
UMD additionally ranked 50th because the baccalaureate-origin establishments of Hispanic or Latino doctorate recipients from 2010–20, and was considered one of only a handful of establishments within the high 50 positioned within the Northeastern United States slightly than in areas with traditionally massive Latino populations, from Puerto Rico to Florida and Texas to California.
Total within the U.S., UMD ranks No. 15 for undergraduate college students of all races and ethnicities receiving science and engineering doctoral levels, in addition to 35th for different analysis doctoral levels, based on NSF knowledge launched in March.
Leaders of college packages that contributed excessive numbers of Ph.D.-earning undergrads stated the accomplishment was the results of years of focused work to extend the pipeline of scholars from various backgrounds in graduate examine.
“What motivated us was taking a look at our undergraduate inhabitants and seeing it was far more various than our graduate inhabitants, and seeing from NSF knowledge it’s not simply us—throughout the nation, white college students are very overrepresented in graduate examine,” stated Naz Salahuddin, principal lecturer, director of undergraduate research and assistant chair for fairness and inclusion within the Division of Psychology.
Salahuddin in 2016 based PREP (Psychology Analysis Empowerment Program). It accepts a yearly cohort of 15-20 undergrads desirous about graduate examine—whether or not low-income, from underrepresented minority teams or first-generation faculty college students—and builds a supportive neighborhood whereas grounding them in information about analysis and graduate college.
The state’s various demographics helped Maryland rank extremely within the NSF report, nevertheless it wouldn’t have been attainable with out college, workers and directors devoted creating alternative for all, stated Robert Infantino, senior lecturer within the Division of Biology and affiliate dean for undergraduate schooling within the Faculty of Laptop, Mathematical, and Pure Sciences, house to the “life sciences” class wherein UMD had a robust displaying on the NSF survey
“We try to have a supportive ecosystem—one the place Black college students and others underrepresented in STEM don’t really feel alone and we have now a campus the place their studying and success is fostered,” Infantino stated.
Ken Kiger, Keystone Professor in Mechanical Engineering and affiliate dean for undergraduate packages within the A. James Clark College of Engineering, positioned a lot of the credit score for engineering’s robust displaying on the door of the college’s Heart for Minorities in Science and Engineering–which incorporates a host of packages to encourage college students to pursue superior levels–and its longtime director, Rosemary Parker.
“Having the Heart and all of the efforts by Rosemary and her workforce make Maryland Engineering really feel like a neighborhood the place underrepresented minority college students are welcomed and valued,” he stated. “If we exclude an entire group of individuals, and they don’t seem to be equitably represented in these levels, we’re lacking out on a big pool of expertise in addition to not doing our job of serving the state of Maryland.”
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Michigan State football opens as sizable underdog vs Maryland
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Who’s ready for Big Ten play to begin? In all honesty, I am not. I really wish Michigan State football had more tune-up games after seeing them struggle against Florida Atlantic and only win 16-10. But unfortunately, that is not how the schedule unfolds for Michigan State this season.
The Spartans will hit the road for an early Big Ten game as they face Maryland on Saturday at 3:30 pm. Going into the season I thought Michigan State and the Terps were on a pretty level playing field, but after seeing both teams play week one that doesn’t appear to be the case.
And Vegas agrees.
Michigan State opens as a 7.5-point underdog next week at Maryland. My guess is that grows to 8, 8.5.
— Graham Couch (@Graham_Couch) September 1, 2024
As you all know, Michigan State only beat Florida Atlantic by six and did not look very impressive, especially on the offensive side of the ball. So it’s no surprise that MSU will be the underdog next week. But 7.5 points feels like a lot, and according to the Lansing State Journal’s Graham Couch, it likely will only go up from there.
So does Vegas have it right or are they underrating Michigan State?
Looking at Maryland’s week one game against UConn it appears Vegas has this line right. The Terps were up 23-0 at halftime and never looked back and went on to win in dominant fashion 50-7. UConn and FAU are very similar in terms of what level they’re at in college football, so that drastic of a difference in the final score is very scary.
So Vegas probably could’ve gotten away with Maryland being even bigger favorites in this one.
But maybe Vegas saw what I did and thinks a lot of Michigan State’s mistakes on Friday are easy to fix. Maybe they think Aidan Chiles will be much better next week. The Spartan’s defense was also fairly dominant so there isn’t much of a chance Maryland scores 50 points next week either.
I tend to not bet on Michigan State games, but even if I did this would be a line that I would avoid because who knows how much Jonathan Smith’s squad will improve by next week, and who knows how much Maryland might struggle against a Power Four opponent.
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University of Maryland reverses decision to allow anti-Israel protest on October 7
The University of Maryland on Sunday reversed its decision to allow an anti-Israel protest on the first anniversary of the October 7 Massacre, following backlash from local Jewish groups.
UMD Students for Justice in Palestine and UMD Jewish Voice for Peace had been set to hold their October 7 vigil for Gazans killed in the Israel-Hamas War at the campus’s Mckeldin Mall, but the University System of Maryland (USM) said in a statement that on the day of the Hamas-led pogrom it would limit campus events requiring permits or approval to those supporting “a university-sponsored Day of Dialogue.”
“From the beginning of the war, we have come together as a University System to urge that we use this moment to encourage conversation, compassion, and civility; to engage with one another across our differences and draw on our shared humanity and our shared values to bridge what divides us,” said USM. “These dialogues aren’t new. Many of our universities have been hosting this kind of programming for several months. Reserving Oct. 7 gives us a chance to continue these urgent conversations and to mark this solemn anniversary in a way that gives students—all students—the time and space to share and to be heard.”
USM said that its intent was not to infringe of the free expression and speech of students, but to be sensitive to the needs of students as October 7 was a “day of enormous suffering and grief for many in our campus communities.”
UMD Jewish Student Union, Maryland Hillel, Terps for Israel, and Israeli American Council Mishelanu at Maryland welcomed the USM decision and thanked UMD leadership in a joint social media statement on Sunday.
“October 7, the largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, is a day of mourning for the Jewish and Israeli community,” said the UMD JSU. “We are relieved that SJP will no longer to be able to appropriate the suffering of our family and friends to fit their false and dangerous narrative.”
The Jewish groups said that it was distraught that the decision to only hold university-sponsored event had to be made at all, and wished to used the campus space to “grieve together as a community” to promote unity at the university. The unideal situation was necessary, according to the Jewish groups, to ensure the physical and psychological safety of students on the day of mourning.
UMD JVP and SJP attacked the decision to cancel the event, claiming that the vigil for Palestinians killed since the October 7 Massacre was attacked without familiarity of the content. The anti-Israel groups said that the discourse was “the continuation inherently racist, Islamophobic, and dehumanizing rhetoric surrounding Palestinians.” JVP and SJP said that the actions against their event were an attempt to paint “Muslim, Arab, and anti-Zionist Jewish students as barbaric.”
The anti-Israel groups asserted that their vigil for Palestinians who died in the war was no threat to the campus’s Jewish community, but conflation of Zionism and Judaism did threaten UMD and the Jewish community.
“To claim that Palestinians cannot hold a day of remembrance in mourning one year of genocide, or lay claim to that date is an insult to every life lost in the Zionist entity’s genocidal campaign,” UMD SJP and JVP said on Instagram on Sunday. “The disproportionate scale of suffering experienced by the Palestinians over the past year necessitates their remembrance and our solidarity on this day. The suffering of all innocents killed must not be monopolized and necessitates a fair and just representation.”
SJP and JVP demanded the right to organize and exercise their right to free speech, accusing Zionists of attempting to stifle Palestinian voices.
The organizations indicated on their Sunday Instagram post that they still planned to hold their all-day event at Mckeldin Mall, and on Monday a link to register still active and listing the campus building as the rally location.
UMD Jewish groups said that they would be holding their own event to memorialize the victims of the October 7 pogrom at the Maryland Hillel.
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Sunshine for your Labor Day in Maryland
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