This book presents University of Maryland student research related to Grand Challenges and psychology. Present topics primarily address global health grand challenges, but we expect it to expand as the research included in this book expands and evolves. Each research project presented in this book was pre-registered and has an Open Science Foundation project which allows public access to the research pre-registration, materials, data, analysis code, and poster. Topics covered include psychological grit, risk-taking behavior, optimism, and motivation.

WikiEdu course page for SLLC280: Mythology of the Oppressed (Fall 2022) with Professor Juan Uriagereka. Course taught at the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures in the College of Arts and Humanities, University of Maryland (UMD).

Course Description: Does information drive human history? Mythological recurrences say much about cultures that had to adapt their world views while attempting to preserve them. This course examines the cognitive or social bases of mythology, to be pursued from insights in cultural and literary studies, linguistics, the cognitive sciences, Neolithic-anthropology, archeology, etc. The course is designed to help students think about complex problems from a humanistic perspective, making liberal use of the sciences.