FM Staff News

March 16, 2023

Hundreds of UMD students and other volunteers contributed almost 6,000 volunteer hours to the UMD Arboretum in 2022.

February 27, 2023

UMD has been honored with 2022 Tree Campus Higher Education recognition by the Arbor Day Foundation for its commitment to effective urban forest management. The University has received this honor each consecutive year since the inaugural year of the program in 2008 – one of just 25 campuses to do so...

December 05, 2022

UMD was recognized as a top performer in the Waste section of the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) 2022 Sustainable Campus Index (SCI). The university was also recognized in the Research section. The SCI recognizes top-performing colleges and universities overall and in 17 s...

December 01, 2022

UMD Engineering students will have an innovative new space for classes, labs, collaboration and more in the Stanley R. Zupnik Hall.

December 01, 2022

September 2022 was the one-year mark for launching the Facilities Management (FM) Strategic Plan. Since that time, with input and support from staff across all areas, team FM has made significant progress with implementation. With initiatives in Wave 1 priorities (“Investing In our People” and “Impr...

November 09, 2022

Operation Maintenance and Utilities Facility Managers serve in the critical customer service role of liaison between FM and colleges/schools and general administrative buildings with a key goal to build positive working relationships with external customers and resolve service issues promptly and ef...