Take a look inside the cutting edge lab school right on the campus of the University of Maryland: The Center for Young Children. The facility is custom-built to accommodate research and student-driven learning. But it wasn't always so forward-looking. TerraPods tells the little known story of the CYC in two parts.

College Kids Part 1

The emergency contraceptive Plan B is now available 24 hours a day at the University of Maryland's common shops, but the addition didn't come without a fight. Learn how campus groups made it happen and about learn the other contraception options on campus...you might be surprised just how much you don't know.

Plan B

Take a look inside the cutting edge lab school right on the campus of the University of Maryland: The Center for Young Children. The facility is custom-built to accommodate research and student-driven learning. But it wasn't always so forward-looking. TerraPods tells the little-known story of the history of the CYC.

College Kids

"Fear the Turtle," we here at the University of Maryland say. It's a somewhat ironic rallying cry, but it works. On Charter Day (UMD's birthday) of 2018, I found myself asking, "How'd we get here?" Why Testudo the Terrapin our mascot in the first place, and what makes him important to us? I enlisted the help of archivist Jason Speck to find out.