University of Maryland, College Park
Public university in College Park
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| April 2024 | UMD students joined nationwide campus protests against the Gaza war, calling attention to the genocide in Palestine and urging the university to divest from companies supporting the conflict. |
| 2022 | Joshua Stonko becomes a Maryland State Delegate |
| September 2022 | Performed a fall semester concert featuring music from 17 different video games including Super Mario 3D World, Pokémon Diamond and Pearl, Undertale, and Final Fantasy VII |
| January 2022 | Performed a spring semester concert with music from 17 video games, including Super Mario Odyssey, Monster Hunter: World, NieR: Automata, and The Legend of Zelda series |
| 2021 | President Pines pledges that the University of Maryland will achieve carbon neutrality by Earth Day 2025. |
| 2021 | Ranked among the top 10 universities in The Princeton Review's Top Schools for Innovation & Entrepreneurship for the sixth consecutive year. |
| 2021 | Announced raising $1.5 billion in donations since 2018. |
| September 2021 | Held a fall semester concert featuring music from 16 video games, including Pokémon Gold and Silver, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, and The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time |
| 2020 | Ranked among Peace Corps' 25 Top Volunteer-Producing Colleges for the tenth consecutive year. |
| 2020 | Darryll J. Pines became the 34th president of the university, having previously been a professor of Aerospace Engineering at the institution. |
| 2020 | K. J. Ray Liu was elected as 2022 IEEE President and CEO, becoming President-elect in 2021 and serving as Past President in 2023. |
| 2020 | Brandon Lowe won the American League Championship with the Tampa Bay Rays. |
| September 2019 | Performed a fall semester concert with music from 17 video games, including Sonic Colors, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, and Kingdom Hearts |
| August 19 2019 | Adriene Lim, PhD, began her role as Dean of Libraries, succeeding Babak Hamidzadeh. |
| June 2019 | Provost Mary Ann Rankin and Dean Keith Marzullo announced the repurposing of Library Media Services space for the College of Information Studies' faculty and students. |
| January 2019 | Conducted a spring semester concert featuring music from 19 video games, including Super Smash Bros. Melee, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, and Undertale |
| 2018 | Ranked among the top 50 universities in the U.S. News & World Report's Best Global Universities Rankings based on academic research performance and global reputation. |
| 2018 | Kevin Huerter drafted 19th overall by the Atlanta Hawks |
| 2018 | Mike Parson became Governor of Missouri. |
| March 2018 | Performed at Kennedy Center's Millennium Stage during Direct Current performances, featuring emeritus members and including a piece from Journey, personally approved by composer Austin Wintory. |
| January 2018 | The STEM Library was formed by merging the former Chemistry Library and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Library (EPSL) in the Mathematics Building. |
| 2017 | Ranked 69th worldwide in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings. |
| 2017 | Ranked among the top 20 Teach for America colleges, contributing the most graduating seniors to its teaching corps. |
| 2017 | Ranked among Top Producing Institutions of Fulbright U.S. Students and Scholars by the U.S. Department of State for the 2017-2018 academic year. |
| 2017 | Received a record-breaking donation of $219.5 million from the A. James & Alice B. Clark Foundation, ranking among the country's largest philanthropic gifts to a public university. |
| 2016 | The Severn Library was completed in the off-campus Severn Building, expanding the University of Maryland's library system with the capacity to hold 1.25 million volumes and 40,000 archival boxes. |
| 2015 | Began live streaming concerts on Twitch, marking 10 years since foundation. |
| 2015 | Returned to Smithsonian American Art Museum to perform in 'Watch This! Revelations in Media Art' exhibition. |
| 2015 | Ranked 43rd in the world by the Academic Ranking of World Universities. |
| 2015 | University ranked 1st in the U.S. for Boren Scholarship recipients, with nine students receiving awards for intensive international language study. |
| July 2015 | Babak Hamidzadeh began serving as Interim Dean of the Libraries after the retirement of Patricia Steele. |
| 2014 | The university suffered multiple data breaches, with the first compromising over 300,000 student and faculty records. A second breach was investigated by the FBI and Secret Service, attributed to David Helkowski, but no charges were filed. The university offered free credit protection for five years to affected students and faculty. |
| 2013 | Dedicated spring concert to memory of tubist David Scherr, who passed away in December 2012. Purchased and engraved his tuba in his honor. |
| 2013 | Josh Cohen concluded his term as Mayor of Annapolis, Maryland. |
| 2012 | First semester performing outside University of Maryland, including performances at MAGFest X and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. |
| 2012 | Manning Marable posthumously won the Pulitzer Prize for History for his book 'Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention'. |
| September 2012 | The Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) moved to a new space within Hornbake Library, relocating from the basement of McKeldin Library. |
| June 8 2011 | Video Games Live performed GSO's 'Tetris Opera' arrangement at Nokia Theatre during E3. |
| February 26 2011 | Contributed to the Video Games Live concert at Strathmore in Bethesda, featuring an adapted arrangement of 'Korobeiniki' from Tetris. |
| 2010 | Greivis Vásquez wins ACC Player of the Year and Bob Cousy Award |
| 2010 | Sarah Kaufman won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism for The Washington Post. |
| December 11 2010 | Concert at Dekelboum Concert Hall that exceeded the venue's 1,170-seat capacity. |
| May 2010 | Ground was broken on a new Physical Science Complex, including an advanced quantum science laboratory. |
| April 2010 | Knight Hall, the university's first LEED Gold building, opens as the new home for the Philip Merrill College of Journalism. |
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