Written by: Sophia da Silva 🇧🇷 Headshot of Benjamin Gutierrez. (Emelyn Gomez) Benjamin Gutierrez grew up going to the movies with his dad. “It was our weekend plan, you know. When I was a kid, we didn't have much to do, and I grew up in the prime age of franchise films, like Marvel (and) DC,” Gutierrez said. He said those weekend trips made him fascinated with the visual aspect of movies. “[They] tell a story in a universal way. Everyone can understand images, it doesn't ma

Written by: Sophia da Silva 🇧🇷 Headshot of Daisy Navarro. (Emelyn Gomez) Daisy Navarro has known that she wanted to be a doctor for a long time, but as the first in her family to attend college, she struggled to know how to get there. “I had some sense of what I could do, but it was just difficult knowing what resources are out there as first-gen,” Navarro said. Navarro was accepted to several of the 31 colleges that she applied to in high school but didn’t have the money t

Written by: Sophia da Silva 🇧🇷 Headshot of Dennis Gomez. (Emelyn Gomez) Dennis Gomez contemplated changing his mechanical engineering major about three times a semester. “Even though it drives me crazy, staying up nights doing work or studying, looking at all those equations, I'm glad I stuck with it,” Gomez said. Since he was a kid, Gomez was fascinated by how things worked, and math clicked in a way that words never could. “When I finally got it, that light bulb thing, th

Written by: Sophia da Silva 🇧🇷 Headshot of Laura Charleston. (Emelyn Gomez) For Laura Charleston, resilience is about maintaining her identity through her obstacles. As a journalist, the biggest way she’s seen her resilience tested is by the growing distrust in traditional media. “It can be very doubting of the industry, of hearing what everyone's saying and how they feel,” Charleston said, “...and just wanting to be the difference so people can trust you.” Despite the chal

Written by: Emely Gonzalez 🇸🇻 Headshot of Sophia da Silva. (Emelyn Gomez) As people say, four years of college fly by quickly, often leading to the new reality of adulthood. Sophia da Silva wants to take this new chapter as a window of opportunity. “I’m really excited to just go out and experience the world,” she said. From writing news stories and scripts for publication, she not only discovered her passions but also important lessons on how to navigate the world. “The

Written by: Sophia da Silva 🇧🇷 Headshot of Alexa Rosales. (Emelyn Gomez) When Alexa Rosales thinks of strength, she thinks of her mother. “She came here with absolutely nothing,” Rosales said. Her mother, alongside her siblings, immigrated from Peru at 16 years old and had Rosales when she was 24. Without her parents, she was required to figure everything out on her own. “She's gone through so much, and she's still standing,” Rosales said. It’s an example of resilience tha

Written by: Sophia da Silva 🇧🇷 Graduate students and supporters gather to demand different rights from the university (Sophia da...

Written by: Sophia da Silva 🇧🇷 The screen displayed at the "New Wave" documentary showing on September 21, 2025 (Miller...

Written by: Sophia da Silva 🇧🇷 Lily Gallihue sits front row running sound and video recording at the 72-Hour Composition Challenge...

Written by: Sophia da Silva 🇧🇷 CORRECTION: In the previous version of this story, one of the speakers who represented "Black Dead Head" was listed as Beck Simmons. The correct spelling of his name is Bhek Simmons. Correction issued October 22, 2025. Image of a pillar inside the Michelle Smith Performing Arts Library (Photo Credit: The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center Website). Talking to new people can open up unique ways of understanding the world. As they cease to be

By: Sophia da Silva Image of the International Student Scholar Services Office located in H.J. Patterson (Miller Rogers-Tetrick) In the...

By: Sophia da Silva Protestors hold signs at the demonstration on Feb. 26. (Image via PLUMAS) As part of his campaign promises, President...

By: Sophia da Silva 🇧🇷 The cultural centers will be built at The William P. Cole, Jr. Student Activities Building. ( Ashly Cifuentes) ...

By: Sophia da Silva 🇧🇷 Monica Cardenas Guzman wearing butterfly wings before students write on messages on them on Sept. 19 2024....

Written by: Sophia da Silva 🇧🇷 Image via The Clarice (artwork for Orgullo) Antonio de Padua María Severino López de Santa Anna was a...

Written by: Sophia da Silva 🇧🇷 Food For the Gods performance at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. (Lisa Helfert) Nehprii Amenii...

Written by: Sophia da Silva 🇧🇷 Pupuseria La Familiar located on Baltimore Ave on Sept.29, 2023. (Diana Rivera) Bachata booms out of a...

Written by: Sophia da Silva 🇧🇷 Image Via Twitter This Friday marked the biggest movie event of this summer. The releases of Barbie and...

Written by: Evon Salmeron 🇸🇻 Walking onto the University of Maryland campus you will probably find students strutting along the...