Forward For
Tomorrow's Trailblazers
UMD is expanding access to a world-class education, enhancing students’ academic and personal growth and preparing them to launch careers in a quickly evolving job market.
Our Commitment to Student Success
Trailblazers. Changemakers. Innovators. Chance-takers. Whatever their names, these Terps will create the future for all of us. Given support today, they will be unstoppable tomorrow.
Forward for the University of Maryland
We call upon the strength of our Terrapin community to move Maryland forward. Join us in building a better future for all.
Multi-Unit Priorities
Broadening pathways to a top-tier education, we will shape tomorrow’s innovators and changemakers through our experiential learning opportunities, leadership programs and renowned entrepreneurship ecosystem.
To become a top 10 public university, UMD needs to recruit and enroll the nation’s best applicants. Scholarships and graduate fellowships not only make Maryland more appealing than ever, they also open doors to a Maryland education for students with financial need.
Our students aren’t just joining a hypercompetitive workforce. They’re defining it. Terps should have the opportunity to level up their learning through beyond-the-classroom, action-oriented experiences to make an impact as interns, advocates and researchers now.
Teaching and learning in leadership programs cultivate the next generation of changemakers by encouraging critical thinking and creative problem solving.
The entrepreneurship ecosystem at the University of Maryland supercharges student startups, equipping Terps with skills, resources and expert mentors on the road to success.
Excellence & Impact
Excavations by UMD researchers and students unearth new stories about the enslaved communities at the Jefferson and Madison estates.
Teaching Innovation Grants support faculty members seeking to improve students’ experiences in their courses.
With New Funding, UMD Instructors Turn to Data to Drive Better Learning
Proposals for three underutilized church properties in Prince George’s County—with concepts ranging from multigenerational housing to a hub for emergency services—are being recognized for outstanding student work by the American Planning Association of Maryland.
Project that Imagines New Life for Vacant Churches Earns Regional Planning Award
Now Terps on the Testudo mascot team will have more reasons to cheer following a gift from Mike and Karen Weissel to start an endowment to support the mascot program.
As a recipient of the prestigious Intramural Research Training Award, Julian Dumayas (B.S. '26, biological sciences) researches new approaches to eliminating HIV from patients’ DNA.
Bloomberg Businessweek has ranked the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business as the No. 1 school in the U.S. for Learning and No. 3 for Entrepreneurship in its 2026 Full-Time MBA rankings, which were based on student and alumni surveys. Smith also earned a No. 25 overall national ranking.
Bloomberg Businessweek Ranks Smith #1 In Learning For U.S. Full-Time MBA Rankings
Psychologist’s Gift Will Help Expand Benjamin Building, Meet Pressing Need for Special Education Teachers
Chuck ’69 and Rebecca Daggs find inspiration from supporting students. Since its founding in 2000, the Incentive Awards Program has focused on promising students from selected high schools in Maryland who have excelled in difficult circumstances.
UMD Alum and Wife Make $1M Gift to Scholarship Program that Creates Community
Terp Magazine Award Winners
This award honors alums who are expanding access to education, empowering the next generation of leaders and advancing innovation.
Eicholtz is an operations professional who has developed labs and other physical spaces that help biotech and pharmaceutical companies create life-saving therapeutics.
As founder and director of The Giving Square, Neugebauer helps kids between the ages of 7 and 14 shape their world through the power of altruism.
Amodia is the founder of The Movement Street, which reimagines volunteerism and wellness through everything from community gardens to financial literacy workshops.