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MAC to Millennium, University of Maryland Archives
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)-the first collegiate chapter for the state of Maryland was chartered at College Park on July 7, 1975.
National Football League (NFL) Hall of Fame-two
Terrapins have been inducted into the NFL Hall of Fame--Randy White (Dallas
Cowboys) and Stan Jones (Chicago Bears, Washington Redskins)
National Football League (NFL) coaches--three Terrapins and three former University of Maryland head coaches have gone on to head coaching positions in the National Football League, players Dick Modzelewski, Dick Nolan, and Ron Waller, and coaches Bobby Ross, Lou Saban, and Clark Shaughnessy
National Humanities Medal-President Bill Clinton awarded a National Humanities Medal to art professor emeritus David C. Driskell at D.A.R. Constitution Hall on December 20, 2000. Driskell, a leading authority on African American art, taught at Maryland more than 20 years. The National Humanities Medal recognizes those who expand, support and contribute to this country's understanding of the humanities.
Newspaper-the students began publishing a campus newspapaper in 1910; originally called the The Triangle, the paper changed names several times until it became The Diamondback on June 9, 1921; The Diamondback is also part of an athletic tradition at the university; at home basketball games, the students pretend to read the paper as the visiting team is introduced; they then ball up the papers and toss them down into the first few rows of seats.
New York Film Festival-Michael Olmert, member of the Class of 1980 and lecturer at the University of Maryland, won a gold medal at the 2003 New York Film Festival for his work on the BBC production "Walking with Cavemen."
"Night
- Day"-sculpture resembling Stonehenge along the path between Holzapfel
and H. J. Patterson Halls; sculpted by Kenneth Campbell, art professor
emeritus, who taught stone carving for fifteen years; created in 1972,
the pieces represent the various stages of "enlightenment" (see also Sculptures)
Nobel Prize winners-Herbert A. Hauptman, who earned his Ph.D. from Maryland in 1955, was a co-recipient in chemistry in 1985; Juan Ramon Jimenez, a professor of modern languages from 1948 to 1951, received the 1956 prize in literature; Raymond Davis, Jr., who received his bachelor's and master's degrees in chemistry from the university in 1937 and 1939 respectively, was a co-recipient of the prize for physics in 2002; William Phillips--who won the Nobel Prize in 1997 for his work in atomic physics--is the first Nobel Laureate to be appointed to a full-faculty position in the history of the University of Maryland.
Nyumburu Cultural Center-constructed in 1996; name means "Freedom House" in Swahili
