Tag: University of Maryland

  • Nation & World

    New database tracks data on slaves, slavers, and allies

    A new open-source database called Enslaved: Peoples of the Historical Slave Trade (Enslaved.org), offers a repository of information and stories about those who were enslaved or enslavers, worked in the slave trade, or helped emancipate enslaved people.

    5 minutes
    A Cotton Plantation on the Mississippi
  • Nation & World

    Prospects clouded for finding life on the largest class of planets

    Led by Laura Kreidberg, a Clay Fellow at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, a new study shows that LHS 3844b, a terrestrial exoplanet orbiting a small sun 48.6 light-years away, has no detectable atmosphere

    3 minutes
    planet is depicted as being largely covered with dark basalt plains.
  • Nation & World

    Of art and the Civil War

    Harvard joins with three other universities and five theaters in the National Civil War Project, a multiyear collaboration that will use the arts to re-imagine America’s transformative conflict of 150 years ago.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Hunt wins Women of Distinction Award

    Harvard Kennedy School faculty member Swanee Hunt will receive a Women of Distinction Award at the National Conference for College Women Student Leaders.

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  • Nation & World

    ‘Made of fire’

    Harvard wrestlers work toward a turnaround after an early-season losing streak.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Learning in the labs

    This summer 300 undergraduates from across the country have come to Harvard to pursue research opportunities. Long a mecca for students seeking such experiences, the University’s various research programs existed independently until this year. Now, they’re working in tandem with the Office of the Provost.

    4 minutes