Do Good Student Teams

Synapto works to detect Alzhiemers Disease.

Team UNITED is a research group working to increase the amount of literature on disordered eating in men and what role overlapping identities, such as race, sexual orientation, etc. have on this condition.

TeleShadowing is a free clinical shadowing program open to all pre-health students from the undergraduate, post-baccalaureate, and high school levels.

Terp Thon fundraises for children battling cancer.

Terps for Health Equity is a community action project under the Rawlings Undergraduate Leadership Fellowship that aims to address healthcare inequities caused by a lack of cultural competency training in medical school curricula.

Terrapin Think Tank (TTT) is the first student-led policy incubator at the University of Maryland. For the past year and a half, TTT has been developing and advocating for community-centered policy solutions to significant health challenges in Prince George’s County.

The 2nd LT Richard W. Collins III Foundation was founded by the parents of Richard Collins, who was stabbed to death on the campus of the University of Maryland, College Park, on May 20, 2017. The Foundation was established with two purposes in mind: defeat the intolerance and fear that robbed the Collins family of their beloved son and promote scholarship and mentoring to ensure the success of young people of color.

The 2nd LT Richard W. Collins III Foundation was established to defeat the intolerance and fear that robbed the Collins family of their beloved son, and promote scholarship and mentoring to ensure the success of young people of color. The Foundation successfully lobbied the Maryland General Assembly for the enactment of the 2nd LT Richard W. Collins III Hate Crime Law as well as the 2nd LT Richard W. Collins III Scholarship Program Legislation, which provides $1 million in annual scholarships, with 700+ Maryland HBCU students receiving scholarship funding since 2018. Through partnerships with Bowie State University and the Chesapeake Bay Outward Bound School, the Foundation brings together ROTC students from historically Black colleges and predominately white institutions for outdoor leadership exercises aimed at fostering community.

The Black Mill Giving Circle is a giving circle engaging black millennials with the promise to provide $1 million dollars to black-led nonprofits nationally.

The Community Health Awareness (Education) Initiative at College Park is a public health effort with the goal of promoting genomic literacy in the College Park community and increasing access to genetic testing as a preventative health measure among college students.