University of Maryland

Last year, graduation was virtual for almost every local university. This year, many schools are having in-person graduations or some kind of hybrid ceremony. Prince George’s County Bureau Chief Tracee Wilkins reports on some of these long-awaited celebrations.

Despite the pandemic, more than 12,000 workers received U.S. approval in the last fiscal year to leave their homes in Mexico for jobs in American seafood processing plants

Maryland’s public higher education system will require that students, faculty and staff returning to campuses in the fall be vaccinated against COVID-19

All 12 universities in the system will require COVID-19 vaccinations for all students learning in the fall semester. News4’s Darcy Spencer reports.

As people prepare to return to the office, many question if their employer can require then to get the vaccine. News4’s Susan Hogan reports.

The University of Maryland and Bowie State University started a unique partnership focusing on social justice. Prince George’s County Bureau Chief Tracee Wilkins explains how they hope to turn a major loss into a teachable moment.

Johns Hopkins University is the latest of more than a dozen universities across the country to require students to get the COVID-19 vaccine, unless they have a health or religious exemption before coming back to campus in the fall. They aren’t the only Maryland university considering the move.

Colleges and universities must decided whether to require students get vaccinated. News4’s Darcy Spencer reports on decisions being made locally.

No. 10 Maryland knocked off No. 7 UConn to keep dancing.

The Maryland women’s basketball team heads into the Big Ten Tournament ranked no. 1 in the conference, and Coach Frese is a big reason why.

Students are told to stay in their dorms as the school takes strict measures to stop the spread. News4’s Darcy Spencer reports.

News4’s Darcy Spencer reports on the new restrictions and the order for students to “sequester in place.”

The history of enslaved people is so hard to trace, that it’s left some African Americans without the details of who they are and where they come from. A newly released database is compiling the fragmented experiences and stories of enslaved people in hopes of repairing that broken history

Prince George’s County Bureau Chief Tracee Wilkins reports on a new website that compiles the history of enslaved people.

With vaccines in short supply, research from the University of Maryland shows new ways to ration them. News4’s Doreen Gentzler reports on the potential options available.

Enslaved.org is a project that explores and reconstructs the lives of people who were enslaved, owners of enslaved people or took part in the slave trade. News4’s Pat Lawson Muse spoke with University of Maryland associate professor of history Daryle Williams, Ph.D.

After a two-year-long process, a family will be awarded a $3.5 million settlement from Maryland after their son, Jordan McNair, died during a university football practice

A white man will soon be sentenced for stabbing a black college student to death at a bus stop at the University of Maryland in what prosecutors say was a racially motivated crime

News4’s Leon Harris speaks to UMD President Darryll Pines, Ph.D, UMD’s Athletic Director Damon Evans and UMD’s Head Football Coach Mike Locksley in a special broadcast of “Inequality in America” on Thursday, Dec. 24, 2020.

The University of Maryland is breaking with tradition in order to honor its diversity. The school announced it will name two of its new dorms after people of color who broke barriers at the university. Prince George’s County Bureau Chief Tracee Wilkins spoke with one of those history makers.