University of Maryland, College Park

The University of Maryland, Academy Park (often referred to as The University of Maryland, Maryland, UM, UMD, or UMCP) is a accessible analysis university amid in the city-limits of Academy Park in Prince George's County, Maryland, about 4 afar (6.4 km) from the northeast bound of Washington, D.C. Founded in 1856, the University of Maryland is the flagship academy of the University Arrangement of Maryland. With a abatement 2010 acceptance of added than 37,000 students, over 100 undergraduate majors, and 120 alum programs, Maryland is the better university in the accompaniment and the better in the Washington Metropolitan Area. It is a affiliate of the Association of American Universities and competes athletically as a affiliate of the Big Ten Conference.

The University of Maryland's adjacency to the nation's basic has resulted in able analysis partnerships with the Federal government. Abounding associates of the adroitness accept analysis allotment and institutional abutment from agencies such as the National Institutes of Health, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and the Department of Homeland Security.

The operating account of the University of Maryland during the 2009 budgetary year was projected to be about US$1.531 billion. For the aforementioned budgetary year, the University of Maryland accustomed a absolute of $518 actor in analysis funding, before its 2008 mark by $118 million. As of May 11, 2012, the university's "Great Expectations" attack had exceeded $950 actor in clandestine donations

History

Early history
Charles Calvert, founder
On March 6, 1856, the advertiser of today's University of Maryland was accountant as the Maryland Agricultural College. Two years later, Charles Benedict Calvert, a approaching U.S. Congressman, purchased 420 acreage (1.7 km2) of the Riverdale Plantation in Academy Park. Calvert founded the academy after that year. On October 5, 1859, the aboriginal 34 acceptance entered the Maryland Agricultural College. The academy became a acreage admission academy in February 1864.

Bankruptcy and revival
Morrill Hall, congenital in 1898, is the oldest bookish architecture on campus.
During the Civil War, banking problems affected the administrators to advertise off 200 acreage (81 ha) of land, and the continuing abatement in acceptance beatific the Maryland Agricultural Academy into bankruptcy. For the next two years the campus was acclimated as a boys basic school. Afterward the Civil War, in February 1866 the Maryland assembly affected bisected buying of the school. The academy appropriately became in allotment a accompaniment institution. By October 1867, the academy reopened with 11 students. In the next six years, acceptance grew and the school's debt was paid off.

Twenty years later, the school's acceptability as a analysis academy began, as the federally adjourned Agricultural Experiment Station was accustomed there. During the aforementioned period, a amount of accompaniment laws accepted the academy authoritative admiral in several areas—including authoritative acreage disease, analytical feed, establishing a accompaniment acclimate agency and geological survey, and apartment the lath of forestry. Morrill Hall (the oldest advisory architecture still in use on campus) was congenital the afterward year

Campus

Description
The campus of University of Maryland is acclaimed for its red-brick Georgian barrio and its ample axial lawn, called McKeldin Mall. White columns adorn abounding buildings, with about 770 columns absolute on campus. Spanning the university's 1,250 acreage (5.1 km2) are over 7,500 accurate copse and appropriate garden plantings, arch the American Accessible Area Association to baptize the campus the University of Maryland Acreage & Botanical Garden in 2008.[69] This appellation has accustomed the university to advertise absorbing breed and specific gardens, including all-encompassing built-in plantings. There are assorted acreage tours, such as the centralized Tree Walking Tour which is based about McKeldin Mall and appearance 56 case trees.
Additionally, there are about 400 acreage (1.6 km2) of burghal backwoods amid on campus and the National Arbor Day Foundation has called the university to its 'Tree Campus USA' list. The recreational Paint Branch Trail, allotment of the Anacostia Accessory Trails system, cuts through campus, as does the Paint Branch stream, a accessory of the Northeast Branch Anacostia River.
McKeldin Mall serves as the centermost of campus. On the east and west ends of McKeldin Mall lie the Capital Administration Architecture and McKeldin Library. Bookish barrio beleaguer McKeldin Mall on the arctic and south ends, and are the homes to abounding departments in the Academy of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Academy of Arts and Humanities, and the Academy of Agriculture and Natural Resources. West of McKeldin Mall is the Arctic Hill Community, and south of McKeldin Mall lies Morrill Hall and the Morrill Quad, which was the aboriginal centermost of campus. South of the Morrill Quad are the South Hill and South Campus Commons Communities, and to the southwest is the Southwest Mall and the Robert H. Smith Academy of Business. Running alongside to McKeldin Mall to the arctic is Campus Drive, the capital avenue through campus. The Adele H. Stamp Student Union sits forth Campus Drive abreast the centermost of campus, and serves as a alteration centermost for campus, area Shuttle-UM (the university's bus service) and borough buses aces up and bead off passengers. Hornbake Plaza home to Hornbake Library and several barrio apartment bookish departments aswell lies on Campus Drive, east of Stamp.