Beyond the Field featuring Dr. Joseph Richardson | 2022 UMD Homecoming Address
UMD is dedicated to using our research enterprise to take on the grand challenges of our time, including gun violence. Content warning: this video includes discussions of gun violence and mentions of suicide.
Homecoming’s Beyond the Field lecture goes off the gridiron and into the classroom to showcase our faculty’s impactful work. Professor Joseph Richardson’s work takes a multidisciplinary approach to understanding the causes and consequences of gun violence. Integrating behavioral and social science, medicine, public health, social work, law, computer science and the digital humanities, his research informs interventions to stem gun violence, particularly among young Black men.
Dr. Richardson is a key member of the 120 Initiative, an effort led by University of Maryland President Darryll J. Pines and fellow presidents from Washington, D.C.-area universities and colleges to gather experts from their institutions to advance promising, actionable solutions to reduce gun violence in the United States.
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