It's been 60 years since Hiram Whittle, the first undergraduate African-American was admitted to the school. There have been major improvements to diversity on campus since 1951, and in the fall 2011 semester there was 3,256 undergraduate African-Americans attending the school, according to the Institutional Research Planning and Assessment.

        The university's Nyumburu Cultural Center and the Black Faculty and Staff Association are creating theNyumburu Indigenous African Language Program, which will expose students to a number of different languages and cultures of Africa.

  Every year, diabetes claims more lives than breast cancer and AIDS combined, and someone is diagnosed with the disease every 17 seconds, according to the American Diabetes Association. Many students at the university have been diagnosed with diabetes in their teenage years.

Millions of children in Somalia and the Horn of Africa are starving and malnourished due to widespread famine.  There are 13.3 million people in the countries of Ethiopia, Djibouti and Kenya who need assistance, according to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).

  Uniform crime at the University of Maryland is down from August 2010, as the UMD Police Department has begun a series of new policing tactics. The campus had a dramatic reduction in crimes since 2006, even while the number of crimes around campus continues to rise.

  Let me paint a scene for you. It's a perfect day; everything is going your way and life is good. Now it's lunchtime and perhaps some Panda Express sounds like it will really hit the spot, so you head to Stamp. You manage to dodge all of the sorority girls trying to sell you cupcakes, and you're about two steps behind someone who is walking in the door.