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Momentum Magazine Summer 2024

Building International Momentum

For more than 150 years, our nation’s leaders have recognized that charging universities with developing problem solvers and creative thinkers is key to addressing the challenges our nation faces–and now we must take that same approach as we tackle global-scale issues in collaboration with the rest of the world.
- Jimmy Smith, Director of International Programs

Momentum Summer 2024

Features

Women teaching a bunch of students

Balancing the Scales
Towards Gender Equality in Family Farm Systems in Sierra Leone

Two researchers in a lab

Courting a New Wave
AGNR Welcomes Young African Researchers

In Your Community

AGNR Student standing on McKeldin Mall

Healthy Honduras 
Extension Collaborates to Bring Mental Health Training Programs to Honduras

Student Achievement

ENSP students capstone group for NOAA

Sunken Trash (Not Treasure)
ENSP Capstone Project Making Waves in Oceanic Research with NOAA

Student standing in front of poster

A Green Prescription for Historically Black Colleges and Universities
Landscape Architecture Master's Student Helps Transform Community Wellness

Alumni News

UMD Alum in a rowboat with teammate

Conquering “World’s Toughest Row”
Terp, Teammate Complete Race Across Atlantic in Record Time

UMD AGNR Alumni mentoring another person

Cultivating Landscapes and Minds
Colleen Vacelet’s Journey from UMD Alum to Industry Mentor

Ask AGNR and Faculty & Staff News

Taryn Devereux headshot 
Ask AGNR
Q&A With Taryn Devereux

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Faculty & Staff News 
AGNR Faculty are Working in Several Countries Across Six of the Seven Continents