Inside Dining Services’ Willy Wonka-esque bakery at the University of Maryland, marshmallows, peanut butter cups, brownie dough, chocolate ganache, caramelized graham crackers and salted caramel swirl together to make some 12,000 gallons of ice cream every year for the Maryland Dairy.
Curated by Sydney Feurer ’29, in one of two undergraduate-curated exhibitions held every summer at the Stamp Gallery, “Basement” strives to get to know some of the nameless people who scurry by us as we keep our faces glued to our phones.
A UMD retired professor of mathematics and his wife made a $1 million bequest to the Department of Mathematics to help ensure the university remains at the forefront of mathematics and related emerging fields. An additional $50,000 gift established the C. David and Lucia Levermore Endowed Graduate Student Support Fund in Mathematics.
As a polarized nation heads toward a crucial midterm election this fall, new research from a team including a UMD human development and education scholar suggests that children as young as 5 years old show early signs of partisan behavior.
A $1 million commitment from Scott ’00 and Craig ’03 Hochstadt honors their dad, Ira “Chief” Hochstadt '71, in support of a new facilities project for the men’s lacrosse program at Gossett Hall.
To improve student literacy, districts around the state are looking for ways to increase English language arts (ELA) instruction time, with some proposing social studies cuts to accomplish. Not so fast, advise a trio of University of Maryland education scholars.
