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In case you missed it, the University of Maryland Department of Psychology @psycumd hosted its second annual PSYC Good Deed Day last Wednesday, October 7 — and more than 1,500 good deeds were added to the PSYC Good Deed Day website's global tracker!

Other highlights from the day include:

⚫ Over 80 undergraduate students participated in PSYC's on-site good deed event. This involved assembling 50 care packages for @awidercircle and creating a canned food drive for the @umdcampuspantry.

⚫ @umdpsichi held a canned food drive.

⚫ PSYC Assistant Professor Terrill Taylor's Restoring H.O.P.E. Research Lab held a book drive for DC Books to Prison, and created bookmarks.

⚫ PSYC Professor and Chair Michael Dougherty's research lab decorated cards to include in Halloween gift bags for kids in Department of Pediatrics at the University of Maryland School of Medicine @marylandmedicine.

⚫ PSYC Professor Jude Cassidy's Maryland Child and Family Development Laboratory wrote a bunch of notes of encouragement with chocolate attached and handed them out to random people.

⚫ The Resilient Adaptation across Culture and Context Lab @racclab led by PSYC Assistant Professor Fanita Tyrell wrote affirmations, compliments, and generally positive statements on note cards or sticky notes and left them around the UMD campus.

Thank you to all who participated! five individuals standing behind a table with a red UMD Department of Psychology tablecloth on it at PSYC Good Deed Day 2026 by @bsosumd

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It was a busy week in the @bsosumd events world! Yesterday, I was also able to attend the @bahaichair's annual lecture. This year's featured speaker was Dr. Laura DeNardis, a professor and endowed chair in technology, ethics and society at @georgetownuniversity, who delivered an incredibly timely and important talk on "AI Governance for the Common Good."

I am so proud to be the dean of a college whose faculty are committed to facilitating conversations that seek to address the grand challenges of our time. Georgetown University Professor Laura DeNardis speaking at a podium at the UMD Bahai Chair for World Peace's annual lecture. Bahai Chair Hoda Mahmoudi is standing next to her on the stage. by @bsosumd

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Today is PSYC Good Deed Day, a day that encourages individuals from all around the world to do at least one good deed.

Should you take time out of your day to spread some kindness, consider adding it to the global tracker at go.umd.edu/gdd. peach colored promotional graphic with illustrated flowers and the words PSYC Good Deed Day established 2025 University of Maryland College Park by @bsosumd

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The @bsosumd Department of Psychology (@psycumd) is once again striving to "Be the Solution to the World's Great Challenges" through it's second annual PSYC Good Deed Day, which is all about encouraging kindness and putting a little more positivity out into the world. I'm excited to do my part, and I hope you join the cause on Wednesday, October 7—and every day!

If you participate, be sure to log your good deed at go.umd.edu/gdd. UMD BSOS Dean Susan Rivera, center, holding up a gray T-shirt that reads "PSYC Good Deed Day" with UMD PSYC Department Chair Michael Dougherty behind her on the left, and UMD HESP Clinical Professor Kathy Dow-Burger on her right by @bsosumd

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The University of Maryland Department of Psychology's (@psycumd) PSYC Good Deed Day is happening in ONE week, on Wednesday, October 7, 2026! Join individuals from all around the world in doing at least one good deed that day—an act that has mental health benefits for you, too.

You can learn more, log your good deed, and even see a map of where in the world good deeds are happening at go.umd.edu/gdd. by @bsosumd

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Delighted to see in this morning's Maryland Today e-mail the TERP magazine article on the discoveries being made at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello and James Madison's Montpelier estates—notably by @bsosumd Department of Anthropology (@umdanth) alumni, current students, and faculty!

Check out the fascinating read for yourself at https://go.umd.edu/TERPanthfall26.

Photo by Stephanie S. Cordle Archaeology field school students and staff at Montpelier dig next to the icehouse by @bsosumd

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The Africa Through Language and Area Studies (ATLAS) Initiative is hosting two events in early October:

1) A film screening of 'The Waste Commons' on October 2 from 2-4 p.m. in Ulrich Recital Hall (Tawes Hall, 1121), part of the Environmental Anthropology Speaker Series Co-Sponsored by ATLAS: https://go.umd.edu/ATLASscreening

2) A virtual event on Tuesday, October 6 from 4-5 p.m. called "Bridging the Historical Narrative: From the Middle Passage to Current Community Connections": https://go.umd.edu/ATLASBridging

Visit the links above to learn more and register! A pink and blue graphic with a photo of an African woman that reads please join of us for a film screening of The Waste Commons on October 2 from 2-4 p.m. in Ulrich Recital Hall (Tawes Hall, 1121), part of the Environmental Anthropology Speaker Series Co-Sponsored by ATLAS. In quotes: We Work in Garbage but we are not Garbage. by @bsosumd

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BSOS had such a fun time celebrating Henson Week with you, Terps! Female Muppet doll sitting on a table outside on UMD's campus by @bsosumd

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In case you missed it, senior Government and Politics major Leonard Fomin will once again serve as the chair of the BSOS Dean’s Student Advisory Council (@bsosdsac)!

In addition to building upon and continuing the work he started during his first term as chair in 2025-2026, Fomin’s two main goals for this year are to find a way to better promote advising services to students, and to design a “side-car” course for students taking difficult introductory courses.

Learn more about Fomin at https://go.umd.edu/fominDSAC2627, also linked in our bio 👆 Senior Government and Politics major Leonard Fomin, chair of the BSOS Dean’s Student Advisory Council in 2026 by @bsosumd

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An alumna of our Department of Sociology will compete to win $1M on the 51st season of “Survivor” premiering tonight!

Learn more about Angelica “Jelly” Loblack Ph.D. ’25 and how she prepared for the competition at go.umd.edu/2faq.

Photos courtesy of Robert Voets/CBS and Jelly Loblack by @bsosumd

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Meet the 2026-2027 leaders of the BSOS Dean’s Student Advisory Council, @bsosdsac!

⚫ Leonard Fomin, Chair
⚫ Colin McNamara, Vice Chair of Academics
⚫ Ibhade Akhabue, Vice Chair of Programming
⚫ Katelyn Keller, Vice Chair of Outreach
⚫ Emma Barringer, Vice Chair of Student Services

Learn more about each member of the BSOS DSAC executive board at https://go.umd.edu/DSACexec2627, also linked in our bio 👆 by @bsosumd

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