Tag: defense contractors

UMD SGA to ask university to rename rooms titled after US defense, military companies

The University of Maryland SGA passed a resolution calling on this university to rename four rooms in the engineering school and one room in the computer, mathematical and natural sciences college

Keira Hardesty
4 days ago

UMD students protest defense contractors attending STEM career fair

Students stood outside the career fair held at The Hotel to protest against companies such as Lockheed Martin, Boeing and General Dynamics and hand out fliers.

Anastasia Merkulova
September 26, 2025

Students protest UMD’s willingness to host ICE, defense contractors at spring career fair

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Lockheed Martin and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security are no longer participating in the spring career fair.

Katharine Wilson
February 27, 2025

UMD students petition SGA for campuswide vote on divestment from defense companies

This university’s Students for Justice in Palestine chapter created the petition for a general vote, or referendum, earlier in November.

Diamondback Staff
December 3, 2024

Two major defense contractors gave UMD more than $46 million from 2010 to 2023

Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman gave more than $46 million to the University of Maryland from 2010 to November 2023 in donations and research funding.

Katharine Wilson
June 10, 2024