Coping with Problems that Confront Our World

The future challenges that await University of Maryland students increasingly will be global in scope.  With this in mind, an informal group of UM personnel, led by OIP Director, Saúl Sosnowski, and with support from Provost Nariman Farvardin, has been discussing ways to give UM students (and the larger campus community) the opportunity to consider crucial issues that all will confront in the years and decades ahead.

The first result is the new conversation series, Strategies to Survive the 21st Century, a forum for internationally prominent members of the UM family, the DC area, and other select visitors, to share their thoughts on issues such as environmental change, energy needs, economic transformation, political systems, racial and ethnic conflict, and national and international security.

All presentations in the series are free and open to members of the campus community, and feature an interactive format.

For more information, contact Lucy Covey.