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Interdisciplinary four-year team based undergraduate research program in @terphonors at @univofmaryland #GemstoneTerps @gemstonecouncil 🐢💎

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Join ILS and GEMS for a Medical School & Graduate School Panel and Workshop! Hear from alumni from both programs sharing their experiences applying for and navigating medical school and graduate school. RSVP now via link in bio!

📅 When: Tuesday, Oct 8th | 6:30 PM

📍 Iribe 2207 (Med School) and Iribe 2107 (Grad School)

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🎃 GEMS x ILS Pumpkin Pop-Up 🎨

📅 10/1
⏰ 5–7 PM
📍 La Plata Beach

Come paint pumpkins with friends + grab some snacks! 🎨🎃🍪🧃

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Gems Camp 2026 recap!! Check out all the cool highlights from camp 🏕️✨

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Check out what Gemstone students in GLC were up to this summer!! ☀️

Images 2-3: Bhargav Srinivasan presented at the Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology conference on his work with Dr. Can Firtina at UMD. His work “RawMod: A Deep Learning Approach to Modification Agnostic Classification in Nanopore Sequencing”, won the Best Poster prize in the HiTSeq track.

Images 4-5: Laura Akkurt volunteered at Mercy Medical Center in Baltimore at the Emergency Department. She also presented at a Summer Research Conference this July for her GEMS team AALERT-P.

Images 6-8: Antonia Spivak traveled to Honduras for a medical brigade where she helped provide locals with adequate healthcare resources. She also studied abroad in Copenhagen and learned about different healthcare systems!

Images 9-11: Jehan Idsassi conducted immunology research on the TGF-β signaling pathway in CaOV3 ovarian cancer cells in Dr. Berglund’s lab in the Department of Veterinary Medicine at UMD. She also traveled to Morocco, where she piloted the first international educational toolkit for my non-profit, STEM Up, in my grandmother’s village of Tafroute, and reconnected with family—immersing herself in her indigenous Amazigh roots.

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Want a seat at the table—and bagels while you’re there? Join the Honors Student Leadership Council, a cross-program group of students who help influence Honors College policies, programming, and the student experience.

Council members will meet students from across Honors LLPs and gather for bagels at 10 a.m. on the first Wednesday of each month: October 7, November 4, December 2, February 3, March 3, April 7, and May 5.

Students from every class year are welcome. The first two students from each Honors program to sign up will earn a spot on the council.

Email Honors Executive Director Kristy Maddux at klmaddux@umd.edu if interested.

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Come join us and cool off 😎🍧with some shaved ice and meet other Gemstone students and the Gemstone staff! We will have Rita’s and Gemstone SWAG outside La Plata on the market side starting 3 PM this FRIDAY 9/4! Hope to see you there!

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Join us for our Honors College Ice Cream Social on Friday, October 2, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. in Anne Arundel Hall! We will have pre-scooped flavors from the Maryland Dairy (including dairy-free and kosher options). Take a break to enjoy some ice cream with friends.

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Class of 2030 Honors Terps really showed up this morning! We shouted. We collaborated. We laughed. We jammed. We listened. And we RANG OUT!! We are ready for the year ahead!

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It’s official! Our team members have satisfied all the requirements of the Gemstone Honors Program and were recognized at the annual Citation Ceremony last week (take a look at our super cool medals 👀🙂‍↕️).

Our involvement in the only four-year Honors Program at Maryland shows the level of work, passion, and determination each of our team members possesses. We are proud to be the only research team in our cohort that led investigations in the social sciences and even prouder to be an all-women research team. As we step into a world that often undermines women, public health, and social sciences, our work comes in at just the right time, addressing the health disparities experienced by marginalized groups. We are so grateful for the outpouring of love and support we received during our time in Gemstone. This work is not just our own, but the work of so many advocates and self-advocates, leaders, families, and mentors who helped us reach this point.

Congratulations to our wonderful team on this accomplishment and on graduating with a Bachelor’s from THE University of Maryland! 🐢 🎓

#FULLSEND #womeninresearch #gemstonehonorsprogram

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We are grateful for the opportunity to present our research and participate in community outreach at the University of Maryland’s Center for Diabetes and Endocrinology!

We had lovely conversations, gained more insight into the clinical applications and importance of our research, as well as educated healthcare workers and patients about the intersection between diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

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Join us in celebrating our Class of 2026 as they receive their citations! The ceremony will be held on Monday, May 18, 2026, at 6:00 p.m. at the Samuel Riggs IV Alumni Center (7801 Alumni Dr., College Park, MD 20742). We will request that all guests be seated by 5:45 p.m.

Please RSVP by Friday, April 24, 2026. 🎓✨

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