Kermit the Frog as 2025 Commencement Speaker at University of Maryland

Kermit the Frog is scheduled to be the commencement speaker at the University of Maryland in 2025, with a biography describing him as an environmental advocate, Peabody Award Winner, best-selling author, and international superstar. The event honors Jim Henson, who graduated from the university in 1960, and Kermit expressed excitement for the opportunity.

Introduction to Fat Studies Course at University of Maryland

The University of Maryland will offer a course called 'Intro to Fat Studies' in 2025, examining fatness as an area of human difference subject to privilege and discrimination, with a focus on the relationship between fatness and Blackness. The course will be taught by Professor Sydney Lewis.