News & Updates Breadcrumb Home Research News & Updates Prevent Gun Violence: Research, Empowerment, Strategies & Solutions (PROGRESS) PROGRESS Menu ABOUT NEWS & UPDATES MEET THE TEAM EVENTS RESEARCH & SCHOLARSHIP DATA & RESOURCES SOCIALS & CONTACT INFO PROGRESS Seed Grants Advance Innovation in Gun Violence Research [10Jan2025] Learn More Media’s empathetic coverage of Luigi Mangione reveals an obsession with humanizing white male suspects — Featuring PROGRESS Co-Director [21Dec2024] Learn More ‘I tell her it's fireworks': How DC shootings affected 564 of 566 schools — Featuring PROGRESS Co-Directors [10Dec2024] Learn More PROGRESS Co-Sponsors Bahá’í Chair for World Peace "Gun Violence in America" Symposium [12Nov2024] Learn More (Video) PROGRESS Co-Director Serves as Panelist: "The Use of Arts & Storytelling to Prevent Firearm Injury" [7Nov2024] Learn More PROGRESS Co-Director Receives the 2024 Frances J. Bonner, MD Diversity Award [31Oct2024] Learn More PROGRESS Co-Sponsors VRC Symposium on Cognitive Behavioral Interventions [22Oct2024] Learn More PROGRESS Dialogue on Community Engagement [17Oct2024] Learn More PROGRESS Co-Director Participates in a Social Media Summit for Violence Prevention and Wellness Promotion [12Oct2024] Learn More (Video) PROGRESS Co-Director Gives Testimony Before DC Council [07Oct2024] Learn More PROGRESS Co-Director Briefs Maryland's Governor [19Sept2024] Learn More Inaugural PROGRESS Workshop: Design Justice [16Sept2024] Learn More PROGRESS Participates in UMD's "First Look Fair" [6Sept2024] Learn More Congress Helps Make PROGRESS with Community Project Funding [Aug2024] Learn More "How BSOS Researchers are Addressing a Grand Challenge: Gun Violence in America" — Featuring PROGRESS Co-Director [16July2024] Learn More "Two killed, child injured in shooting that pushes D.C. past 100 homicides" — Featuring PROGRESS Co-Director [18July2024] Learn More PROGRESS Co-Directors Participate in "Take Back the Park" Event [10July2024] Learn More (Video) SciLine Interviews PROGRESS Co-Director on Gun Violence in U.S. Cities [2July24] Learn More PROGRESS Co-Director helps reimagine historic Baltimore site [July2024] Learn More PROGRESS Co-Director Presents at Giffords Center’s Community Violence Intervention Conference [June2024] Learn More PROGRESS Partners with xFoundry [Summer 2024] Learn More PROGRESS featured in "Be the Solution Magazine" [Summer 2024] Learn More PROGRESS Announces Limited Submission Community Innovation Seed Grants [14June2024] Learn More PROGRESS Co-Director Participates in "White Coats at the White House" Event [7June2024] Learn More PROGRESS Participates in Montgomery County Youth Gun Violence Prevention Summit [4May2024] Learn More UMD BSOS Research Showcase for Inequality [2May2024] Learn More A Conversation with UMD Faculty, Students and Stakeholders and The White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention [25Apr2024] Learn More (Video) PROGRESS Co-Director Participates in Kaiser Permanente's Health Action Summit [11April24] Learn More (Video) PROGRESS Co-Director Participates in GVP Panel with Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health [9April24] Learn More PROGRESS Co-Director testifies before the DC City Council Committee on the Judiciary & Public Safety [5April24] Learn More PROGRESS Participates in UMD ASA Gun Violence Awareness Panel [31March24] Learn More An Emerging Group of Researchers Is Changing Our Understanding of Gun Violence — Featuring PROGRESS Co-Director [8Mar2024] Learn More (Video) Inaugural PROGRESS Distinguished Speaker Series [6Mar2024] Learn More (Video) ROAR Center Peer Healing Circle — Featuring PROGRESS Co-Director [21Feb2024] Learn More Crime skyrockets in the nation’s capital — Featuring PROGRESS Co-Director [21Feb2024] Learn More Readout of White House Community Violence Awareness Week and Culminating Ceremony [9Feb2024] Learn More PROGRESS Co-Director attends White House Community Violence Intervention Event [9Feb2024] Learn More PROGRESS Co-Director Testifies before the Ways and Means Committee, MD House of Delegates [7Feb2024] Learn More How Health Care Providers Can Respond to Gun Violence — Featuring PROGRESS Co-Director [25Jan2024] Learn More What Can We Learn From the Nation’s Historic Decline in Murders? — Featuring PROGRESS [10Jan2024] Learn More Governor Moore Announces 2024 Legislative Session Public Safety Agenda and Legislative Action [9Jan2024] Learn More The Nation’s Capital Is Falling Behind on Fighting Violent Crime. Here’s Why. — Featuring PROGRESS Co-Director [8Jan2024] Learn More Homicides Are Falling In Other Major Cities. Why Are They So High In D.C.? — Featuring PROGRESS Co-Director [29Dec2023] Learn More With Baltimore homicides dropping below 300, who gets to take credit? — Featuring PROGRESS Co-Director [21Dec2023] Learn More PROGRESS Co-Director Speaks at CAP 9th Annual National Gun Violence Prevention Summit [5Dec2023] Learn More President Pines Congratulates Team Maryland on its Successful Bid to Bring the New FBI Headquarters to Prince George's County [9Nov2023] Learn More (Video) PROGRESS Launch [8Nov2023] Learn More PROGRESS Co-Director Serves as Panelist for Gun Violence Event [Oct2023] Learn More PROGRESS Co-Director Elected to the National Academy of Medicine [11Oct2023] Learn More Doctoral Student Helps Track D.C. Gun Violence Trends — Featuring PROGRESS Co-Director [15Jun2023] Learn More 120 Initiative Featured on Page 23 of the Spring 2023 Issue of Terp Magazine [25May2023] Learn More 120 Initiative Presents Pathway to Fewer Gun Deaths [1March2023] Learn More 120 Initiative on Gun Violence Prevention [Feb2023] Learn More (Video) Beyond the Field — Featuring PROGRESS Co-Director [17Oct2022] Learn More
