The Diamondback

The Diamondback is a student-operated newspaper at the University of Maryland. It is updated every day online and can be found at dbknews.com. In addition to its online presence, the newspaper is printed weekly on Thursdays and can be picked up at various spots across the campus and in the College Park area.

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Maryland basketball made history, football crumbled in 2024-25 season

3 weeks ago | dbknews.com | Harrison Rich

In the 2024-25 academic year, the Terps lost their athletic director, endured a miserable football season and had a historic basketball season before the coach of the men’s team departed. In the fall, Maryland football regressed after winning three straight bowl games for the first time in program history.
UMD researchers left with uncertain future after NSF cuts 14 grants

3 weeks ago | dbknews.com | Katharine Wilson

University of Maryland education professor Diane Jass Ketelhut was helping teachers integrate computational thinking into their science lesson plans in a way that worked for students. She was nearing the final stages of her work, where her team was supposed to bring its findings together into final reports for the National Science Foundation. Then, while at a conference with the teachers her team was working with, Jass Ketelhut was notified that her grant was terminated.
The Diamondback’s 2025 Looking Back Guide

4 weeks ago | dbknews.com | Adam Hudacek

Adam Hudacek · Just now Students cheer at the University of Maryland spring commencement ceremony on May 20, 2022. (Riley Sims/The Diamondback) Please support our journalism by donating to The Diamondback.
‘My dad’s rejoicing in heaven’: Lefty Driesell’s son commends Buzz Williams hiring

1 month ago | dbknews.com | Harrison Rich

At the end of Charles “Lefty” Driesell’s life — when he was bedridden and sometimes unable to pick up his phone — his children, Chuck and Pam, would go through their father’s missed calls. They’d listen to the voicemails and tell Driesell who had reached out. Sometimes, he would request to speak with specific people. Buzz Williams was one of them. Chuck Driesell doesn’t know exactly when the friendship started between his dad and Maryland men’s basketball’s new coach.
Car Seat Headrest returns with rock-opera glory on ‘The Scholars’

1 month ago | dbknews.com | Cameron Lee

Car Seat Headrest, the patron saints of hooky, frustrated indie rock, almost considered splitting up. Following the release of the band’s 2020 studio album, Making a Door Less Open, which toyed with a dancier, more electronic sound, frontman and music nerd icon Will Toledo contracted long COVID thwarting the remainder of the 2022 tour and sidetracking plans for a new album. But Toledo emphasized his well-being over the strict tour schedule regiment, and he improved by spring 2023.
U.S. Sen. Chris Van Hollen introduces legislation to force Trump to obey court orders

1 month ago | dbknews.com | Katharine Wilson

Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen and three other senators introduced legislation on Thursday to force the Trump administration to report how it’s complying with court orders related to U.S. citizens or residents wrongfully deported to El Salvador. The report would require a statement on El Salvador’s human rights practices, ways the United States has promoted human rights in the Central American country and how the administration is protecting U.S. residents from being sent to El Salvador.
Maryland men’s basketball lands 5-star guard Darius Adams, first 2025 commit

1 month ago | dbknews.com | Harrison Rich

Composite five-star guard Darius Adams announced his pledge to the Terps on Tuesday, marking Buzz Williams’ first high school commit of his Maryland men’s basketball coaching tenure. The Manchester, New Jersey, native spent his last two years of high school at La Lumiere School in La Porte, Indiana.
‘The Shrouds’ paints a scattered, perceptive portrait of grief in the age of AI

1 month ago | dbknews.com | Cameron Lee

From a legendary filmmaker who has depicted flesh-guns emerging from television screens, sex as fatal car crash fetishism and spine implant-controlled virtual reality games, David Cronenberg’s The Shrouds sets a bizarre new bar for film in the age of artificial intelligence. The film follows Karsh, played by Vincent Cassel, a businessman who monitors the decomposition of his wife’s corpse using a system called GraveTech.
The Diamondback Sports Digest: Maryland women’s lacrosse collapses in Big Ten championship

1 month ago | dbknews.com | Harrison Rich

Welcome back to The Diamondback Sports Digest. Every week, we send you a rundown of the latest Maryland athletics news. Few conclusions can be drawn from a college football team’s spring game, especially during the transfer portal and Name, Imagine and Likeness era. But Maryland held its annual game on Saturday, giving fans a glimpse into the team’s present and future. In this week’s newsletter, we’ll recap that event, a Big Ten tournament title game and more.
About $12 million worth of UMD research grants, contracts impacted by Trump cuts

1 month ago | dbknews.com | Katharine Wilson

More than 40 research grants and contracts — totaling about $12 million — at the University of Maryland have been cancelled, paused or are still in “deliberations” due to Trump administration cuts, university president Darryll Pines told The Diamondback Wednesday. Some losses have been attributed to broad federal budget cuts since the start of U.S. President Donald Trump’s second term, Pines said.