Anticipating Excellence
This semester, let's embrace the possibilities of a new year, the countless opportunities to Do Good, and new ways of thinking that we have not yet imagined.
Our university gives us so many reasons to be proud. Internationally-ranked academic programs. Amazing artists and groundbreaking researchers. Award-winning faculty. Extraordinary and caring staff. Together, we are channeling our collective excellence to take on the grand challenges of our time.
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Darryll J. Pines
President, University of Maryland
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among public institutions for cultivating student entrepreneurialism by The Princeton Review and Entrepreneur magazine
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College for LGBTQ+ Students by Campus Pride and BestColleges
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for Black or African American undergraduates who later achieve doctoral degrees, according to NSF