2019-2020 Academic Year
Fall Semester 2019
- NSF Awards UMD $1M Grant to Investigate Connection Between Gut Health and Brain Health
- Chief Innovation Officer Julie Lenzer Selected as Honoree for 2019 Women Who Mean Business Awards
- Tracking West Nile, Neighborhood by Neighborhood
- University of Maryland Launches Quantum Technology Center
- UMD to Open New Space for Discovery and Collaboration in Crystal City in 2020
- UMD’s Julie Lenzer Authors Article in the National Academy of Inventors journal, Technology and Innovation
- UMD Researchers Win $1.5M Minerva Grant to Understand Social Media Information Campaigns
- Maryland Energy Innovation Institute Launches First Start-Up in Incubator
2018-2019 Academic Year
Spring Semester 2019
- New International Study Identifies Causes of Multidecadal Climate Changes
- Scientists Identify New Genetic Interactions that May Impact Cancer Outcomes
- UMD BRAKE Research Administration Training Team Delivers Workshops in Ireland
- UMD Physicist for Apollo Experiment Gets Chance to Send Next Gen Version to Moon
- Mellon Foundation Awards $2.8M for Research, Digitization in Humanities
- Researchers' Virus Discovery Could Help Fight Autoimmune Disease
- UMD Division of Research Announces Maryland Catalyst Fund New Direction 2019 Award Winners
- Jewell Lab Awarded Two NIH R01 Bioengineering Research Grants
- As Home Remedies Rise, So Does Distrust of Flu Vaccine
- Perfect Quantum Portal Emerges at Exotic Interface
- UMD BRAKE Research Administration Training Team Visits Israel to Deliver Workshops
- UMD Joins Race to Produce Universal Flu Vaccine
- UMD Energy Start-Up receives $8M investment
- NOAA Awards $175 Million to UMD for Earth System Studies
- Latest UMD Wood Technology Could Make Homes Cooler and More Energy Efficient
- UMD "Hyperdimensional" AI Might Lead to Major League Improvements in Robotic Abilities
- Helping robots remember
- BBI Announces FY19 Seed Grant Awards
- The Moon is Quaking as it Shrinks
- Reversible Chemistry Clears Path for Safer Batteries
- Partnering for Quantum Leaps
- Two University of Maryland Faculty Elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences
- Tracing the Fallout of Hitler's Nuclear Reactor That Wasn't
- Student Team Adds Fifth National Championship to UMD Dynasty in Soil Judging
- Urban Clean Air Policies in China Shift Pollution to Other Areas
- University of Maryland's Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering To Transform Region’s Tech Corridor
- Pioneering Breakthrough: Unmanned Aircraft Delivers Organ for Successful Kidney Transplant in Maryland
- $1M Gift to Endow History of Natural Sciences Professorship
- UMD Researchers Kill Foodborne Bacteria with Electrified Air
- UMD to Celebrate the Opening of the Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering
- UMD Team Again Wins National Affordable Housing Design Competition
- Climate Change Can Undermine Children’s Education and Development in the Tropics
- Protecting Part of the Circle of Life
- Two University of Maryland Faculty Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- UMD Engineers Create Fresh Route to Fresh Water
- Two University of Maryland Scholars Named 2019 Guggenheim Fellows
- University of Maryland Launches Center for Machine Learning
- UMD Innovators Honored for Transformative Inventions, Entrepreneurial Endeavors
- Long-lived Bats Appear to Hold Secrets of Mammal Longevity
- Fungal Disease Threatens Hundreds of Amphibian Species Worldwide
- UMD Researchers’ Wood-based Technology Creates Electricity from Heat
- UMD Scientists Create Method for Remote Detection of Radioactive Material
- Researchers Make Urgent Call for Study of Noise Pollution on Fish
- New Experiment Aces Quantum Scrambling Test
- Europa: The Search for Life
- UMD Invention of the Year Nominees Push Limits in Cybersecurity, Health, Quantum Computing, and More
- New UMD Microscopy Method Could Improve LASIK Surgery
- Scientists Find Worms that 'Recently' Evolved Ability to Regrow Heads
- After Psychiatric Hospitalization, What Next?
- Celebration Honors Scholarship, Research Excellence
- UMD Team Again Reaches "Final Four" in HUD Affordable Housing Competition
- Sky-high Ambitions to Predict, Halt Malaria
- Unhealthy Air May Be Hurting Kids' Brains
- University of Maryland Project Receives $2.2M Award to Support Learning for Deafblind Children
- UMD researchers awarded $5.3M NIH BRAIN Initiative grant
- Outsmarting Viruses
- Faster is Lighter
- Patchwork Problem
- UMD's Federal Agency Partners See Budget Bumps, or Avoid Cuts
- Growing Climate Risks to Crops
- Exploring Bubble Trouble
- Extreme Unknowns
- Study: Criminal Penalties for Drug Use During Pregnancy Deter Women From Treatment
- Majority Party Rules? Maybe Not
- Track Changes—in Space
- "Their Stories Have Not Been Told"
- Dean of UMD's Clark School of Engineering Elected to National Academy of Engineering
- Scientists Develop First Fabric to Automatically Cool or Insulate Depending on Conditions
- Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Youth Twice as Likely to End Up in U.S. Foster Care
- Toxic Pesticides on the Rise in Our Food
- Revising the History of Big, Climate-Altering Volcanic Eruptions
- Many Opioid Users With Mental Illness Lack Treatment
- Equal Protection, From Floods
- UMD-Led Study Reveals Upsides & Downsides to the "Loosening" of America
- Machine Learning Finds Multiple Factors Underlie Cancer Immunotherapy Success
- Pathfinding Prof
- Saving Citrus?
- Suffragists, Scientists and Scholars
- Time of Our Lives
- New UMD 3D Nanoprinting Strategy Opens Pipeline to Revolution in Medicine, Robotics
- UMD To Host Big Ten Strategic Partnership for Applied Redistricting Knowledge (SPARK) Conference
- UMD-Led Study Gives Major New Insight on Honey Bee Parasite
- Campus, State Leaders Launch Robert E. Fischell Institute for Biomedical Devices
- NICER View of Black Hole Gives New Insight into Source of Dramatic X-ray Flashes
- UMD Gets First-Ever 'New Innovator in Food and Agriculture Research Award'
- Strong Growth in Carbon Emissions Expected for 2018
- UMB-UMCP Seed Grant Program Kick-Starts Innovative Research
- Scents of Things to Come
- Saltier Waterways Create Dangerous "Chemical Cocktails"
- New Machine Learning Method Predicts Possible Additions to Global List of Threatened Plant Species
- Could Borrowing Be Beneficial?
- A Rising National Challenge
- "We Are Not Ready"
- UMD Sustainability Report Marks Significant Climate Action Progress
- UMD Researchers and Resilinc Corp. Create Index of Climate Change Risk to Company Supply Chains
- Advancing Together
- Passing the Test of Time
- Visualizing Farm Loss
- Stark Challenges for Latino Youths in Montgomery County
- UMD Report Examines Schools with High Suspension Rates in Maryland
- UMD and University of Melbourne Establish Research Partnership
- Fewer Americans Are Volunteering and Giving Than Any Time in the Last Two Decades
- University of Maryland Breaks Ground on E.A. Fernandez IDEA Factory
- Unwelcome Inheritance
- New Research Report Explores Lessons Learned From University of Missouri's Racial Crisis
- How Alcohol Dilutes Anxiety
- Hacking the Way to Equality
- UMD Research Finds Congo Basin Native Forests Vanishing at Alarming Rate
- When Robots Put Their Heads Together
- Tiny Dynamo
- UMD Releases First of Seven New Apples Bred for Maryland Growers
- Inside AI's 'Black Box'
- UMD to Co-Lead First-of-its-Kind FEMA Study Of Health Effects on Wildland Firefighters
- FY2019 Federal Appropriations Update
- Hornbake Library explores American Dream in Occupied Japan
- UMD Researchers Receive $1.3M Grant to Build App Targeting Underserved Populations
- Mountaintop Observatory Sees Gamma Rays from Exotic Milky Way Object
- External Research Funding Climbs to $545M
- Tropical Frogs Found to Coexist with Deadly Fungus
- UMD Part of Multi-Institutional Team Awarded $14.4M to Develop Innovative Language Technologies
- Maryland SBDC at UMD Receives $30,000 Grant from Capital One to Fund Programs for Entrepreneurs
- UMD to Lead Milestone NSF High School Engineering Pilot Course
- Helping Students Play to Their Strengths
- UMD Researchers Awarded $1 Million Grant from NSF to Develop New Methods to Generate Single Photons for Quantum Research
- UMD Expands Innovation and Commercialization Team
- UMD Researcher Gets $1.1 Million NSF Grant to Perfect Gene Editing & Regulation Tools in Plants
- UMD Astronomer Co-authors National Report Calling for Space Telescope to ID and Study Earth-like Planets
- Echo Chambers Persist in Climate Politics, UMD Research Shows
- Gone for Good? Classifying Drivers of Global Forest Loss
- Maryland Alumnus Gives $1M to Support Innovative Business Teaching
- University of Maryland, Governor Hogan Announce Grant to Support the Development of a New Maryland Crime Research and Innovation Center
- UMD Alumna Jean E. Lokerson Bequeaths $1.75M to Support Scholarships for Education Students
- UMD-Led Quantum Light Research Enables Sources of Nearly Identical Photons
- UMD Named One of the Nation's Top 25 Public Colleges
- Large-Scale Wind and Solar Farms in the Sahara Would Increase Rain and Vegetation
- University of Maryland Announces 'Year of Immigration'
- University of Maryland Ranked Among the Top 15 Public Colleges in the Nation
- Responding to Cholera Before It Strikes
- University of Maryland Recognized as a Best College in the Nation, No. 1 in Maryland
- UMD Scientist Helps Harvest Wheat's Giant Genetic Code
- Inherited Brain Pathway Underlies Risk for Anxiety Disorders
- UMD Division of Research Announces Summer 2018 Tier 1 Award Winners
- UMD Receives $3 Million Investment from Scripps Howard Foundation to Create Center for Investigative Journalism
- UMD-Led Team Receives $7.7 Million NIH Grant for First-of-its-Kind Tick-Borne Disease Research
2017-2018 Academic Year
Spring Semester 2018
- University of Maryland, Governor Hogan, Announce New Center to Advance Workforce Readiness for Youth with Disabilities
- Advance Could Yield Safer, Longer-Range Electric Car Batteries
- UMD Researchers Awarded $1.5 Million NSF Grant to Bridge Gap between Microelectronics, Biological Systems
- UMD Assistant Professor Awarded $1.1 Million to Mitigate Rising Sea-level and Saltwater Intrusion along Maryland Eastern Shore
- Detection of Single 'Ghost Particle' Yields Solution of Decade-Old Cosmic Ray Mystery
- Semiconductor Quantum Transistor Opens Door for Photon-Based Computing
- To Nap or Not? UMD Researcher Studies Impact of Sleep on Memory in Pre-Schoolers
- UMD Researcher Awarded NSF Grant to Study Early Career Researchers' Workforce Preparation
- University of Maryland Recognized as Top University for International Students
- UMD Joins Greater Washington Partnership's Capital CoLAB
- People Recall Information Better Through Virtual Reality, Says New UMD Study
- University of Maryland-Phillips Collection Fellowship Awarded
- UMD Critical Issues Poll Reveals U.S., Japanese Attitudes toward North Korea Summit
- New Findings Demonstrate How the Food We Eat Affects Biochemical Signals in the Gut
- UMD Study Validates Face Recognition Experts, But Shows Humans Perform Best with an AI Partner
- The University of Maryland Becomes Overseas Training Base for Anhui Educators
- UMD Receives Top Recognition in Latest Global Rankings
- UMD-led Study Shows How Solar Wind Drops from Gale to Gentle Breeze as It Hits Earth’s Magnetic Field
- UMD Study Examines Association of Abortion and Antidepressants
- UMD Research Shows Physiological Effects of Mate Separation in Birds
- Satellite Study Finds Major Shifts in Global Freshwater
- UMD Research Shows Hearing Aids Improve Brain Function and Memory in Older Adults
- Agree to Disagree: Why Teams Perform Better with Divergent Perspectives
- University of Maryland Launches $1.5 Billion Campaign
- UMD Study Uncovers Germ Cell Findings with Implications for Disease Research
- Faculty Community Honored for Excellence in Scholarship, Research, and Impact
- UMD, NASA to Launch GEDI to Study Forest Changes on Earth
- A New Model for Communication in Plant Cells
- UMD- Led Research Team Awarded New $2.37M DOE Solar Power Tech Project
- UMD Leads Study on Improving HPV Vaccination Rates Among African-American Adolescents
- UMD Partners with Korea Electronics Technology Institute to Advance New Energy Technologies
- UMD Awards Funds to Support Campus Sustainability Projects
- UMD Student Team Wins HUD Affordable Housing Competition
- New UMD Report Shows Planning for Future Uncertainties is Key to a Thriving Region
- UMD Researchers Revive Old Chemistry to Create Safer Zinc Battery
- Two UMD Faculty Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- UMD Celebrates Invention of Year Winners, Ventures, and Partnerships at 'Innovate Maryland'
- University of Maryland Launches Smart and Connected Communities Initiative for Baltimore Avenue
- New Stock Market Design Might Level the Playing Field for All
- UMD Researcher Uncovers Lyme Disease Protein Used to Outsmart the Human Immune System
- UMD Researchers Tackle Facial Verification Software Head On
- UMD, White House Correspondents' Association, and Newseum Partner to Create Archive of Presidential Pool Reports
- Maryland SBDC at UMD Welcomes New State Director
- UMD Startup North American Wave Engine Corp. Receives Investment from USM Venture Capital Fund
- State, University Officials Celebrate Launch of Newly Formed, Cross-Discipline Transportation Institute
- Southern Maryland TechPort Business Incubator Welcomes Inaugural Director
- Biomimetic Multi-compartment Capsule Invention May Help Scientists Understand the Origins of Life
- UMD Researchers Advance Terrorism Studies with Terror Attack Database
- Multi-Institutional Team of Scientists Mix the Unmixable to Create ‘Shocking’ Nanoparticles
- The Sahara Desert is Expanding, According to New UMD Study
- UMD Research Aims to Improve Tests of Speech Comprehension with EEG Brain Wave Measurements
- Federal Research Funding Update: Impact of Omnibus Appropriations Bill
- UMD Researchers Addressing Urinary Tract Infections by Developing Device for Detection and Treatment of Bacterial Biofilms in Catheters
- UMD Researchers Shed Light on Mechanical Properties of Cells
- UMD Researchers Reinvent Charging Interface for Electric Cars
- UMD Graduate Programs Receive High Marks in 2019 U.S. News and World Report Rankings
- UMD Researcher Invents New Tool for Identifying and Assessing Wetlands
- UMD Researchers Revolutionize Oxidative Stress Diagnostics
- UMD Researchers Fearlessly Pursue Solutions in Health, Security, Energy, and More
- New Technology for Use in Military Vehicles May Protect Warfighters from Blast-induced Brain Injury
- New UMD Study Traces the Origins of a Major Potato Pest
- Durable Wood Carbon Sponge Could Be the Future of Wearable Sensors, Pollutant Treatment
- University of Maryland Announces Energy Savings Project at IBBR Shady Grove Facility
- Australian National University and University of Maryland Sign Partnership Agreement
- UMD Study Finds Social Tags Highly Accurate, Reliable Among Consumer Perception Metrics
- University of Maryland Named a Fulbright Program Top Producing Institution
- UMD Convenes Experts to Discuss Innovative and Objective Approaches to Bias-Free Policing
- UMD and Tecnológico de Monterrey Award Seed Grants for International Research Collaborations
- UMD Awarded $1.4 Million to Design New Treatment for PCBs, Heavy Metals in Stormwater
- UMD Research Administration Leader Wins Inaugural INORMS Award for Excellence in Research Management Leadership
- UMD Researchers Find Gene that May Greatly Increase Strawberry Production
- UMD Receives Grant to Develop Cultural Literacy Curriculum
- UMD Researchers Develop Breakthrough Technique to Combat Cancer Drug Resistance
- UMD Researchers Create Super Wood Stronger Than Most Metals
- UMD Joins Top Research Universities to Form International Coalition to Accelerate Local Climate Action
- Locascio to Judge '1st and Future' Super Bowl Startup Competition
- UMD Welcomes Global Cybersecurity Firm BlueVoyant to Discovery District
- University of Maryland Secures $18.3 Million for Energy Conservation Projects
- UMD Research Examines How Human Modifications Affect Mammal Movement Globally
- Why do People Cheat? UMD Research Identifies 8 Motivating Factors
- Unsustained Geoengineering Could Have Animals ‘Running’ for Their Lives
- UMD Researcher Develops Innovative Water Treatment System to Clean and Sustain the Port of Baltimore
- University of Maryland and Lockheed Martin Renew Strategic Partnership with New Agreements
- Spinning Comet Slows Down During Close Approach to Earth
- Flu May Be Spread Just by Breathing, New UMD-Led Study Shows
- NAE President C.D. Mote, Jr., a Regents’ Professor and Past-President of UMD Is Named a Fellow in the National Academy of Inventors
- North American Waterways are Becoming Saltier and More Alkaline
- As U.S. Maternal Deaths Rise, UMD Research Underscores Impact of Flawed Data
- Curbing Climate Change
- University of Maryland, Capital One Partner to Drive Innovation, Fueling Talent Pipeline in Data and Machine Learning
- Faculty and Staff Convene for Research Impact Workshop
- Start-up Born in UMD FPE Receives $1.2M Investment from Newly Established Maryland Momentum Fund
- UMD School of Music Launches Competition to Write Lyrics to State Song
- UMD Doctoral Student’s Brief Video on his Revolutionary Finding about Bee Health Wins International Competition
- University of Maryland SAFE Center, PGPD Receive Joint $1.3M Grant to Assist Human Trafficking Victims
- UMD Solar Decathlon Team Takes 1st Place in the U.S., 2nd Place in the World
- UMD Researchers Contribute to First-ever Direct Observation of Neutron Star Merger
- UMD Receives $8 Million to Combat Hearing Loss in Older Americans
- University of Maryland Recognized as a Top Public Institution in 2017 College Scorecard
- UMD Researchers Develop New Method for Electrogenic Devices to Control Cell Behavior
- UMD Welcomes New VP for Research, Unveils New Vision for Strategic Impact
- UMCP and UMB Celebrate 10 Years of Collaboration and MPowering the State
- University of Maryland Named Finalist for 2017 APLU Innovation & Economic Prosperity Universities Awards
- UMB, UMCP Announce New Strategic Partnership Signature Projects
- University of Maryland Announces Unprecedented Investment from the A. James & Alice B. Clark Foundation
- UMD Libraries Makes University History More Accessible
- University of Maryland Releases Climate Action Plan 2.0
- Snowball Nominations Process Drives Membership in International Scientific Panel, Reports UMD Study
- UMD Awarded U.S. Department of Commerce Grant to Launch Immersive Media Innovation Ecosystem
- UMD Research Administration Leader Receives Distinguished Service Award
- UMD Professor's Startup Overcomes Challenges of Indoor Positioning Systems
- UMD Division of Research Announces Summer Tier 1 Awards
2016-2017 Academic Year
Spring Semester 2017
- UMD, UMB Offer First Look into New Cole Field House
- Gamma-ray Burst Captured in Unprecedented Detail
- New UMD Research Tracks Global IT’s Shift from Cost-Cutting to Revenue-Boosting
- UMD Engineers Invent the First Bio-Compatible, Ion Current Battery
- Flying Dog Brewery and University of Maryland Partner on Hops Production Initiative
- UMD’s “It Takes Just One” Student Team Wins National Competition to Curb Violent Extremism Online
- Call for Proposals: UMD-TEC Seed Grant Program
- UMD Named a 2017 Best College by MONEY Magazine
- 14 University of Maryland Students and Alumni Receive Fulbright Grants
- UMD, UMB Strategic Partnership Announces Expansion of Interdisciplinary Research at Cole Field House
- UMD Among Top 100 in Latest World Reputation Rankings
- University of Maryland Ranks Among Top 100 Worldwide for Patents
- UMD Researchers Investigate Link between ‘Land Grabs’ and Undernourishment
- Mosquito-killing Fungi Engineered with Spider and Scorpion Toxins Could Help Fight Malaria
- UMD Awarded $6 Million NIH Grant for Structure-Based Design of a Hepatitis C Vaccine
- NASA Honors Renowned UMD Comet Science Pioneer Michael A’Hearn
- University of Maryland Bioengineers Develop New Technologies to Drive Next-Generation Therapies for Multiple Sclerosis
- University of Maryland Joins Grand Coalition to Support Paris Agreement Climate Action
- UMD-Led Research in Bloodless Worms Reveals How Organs Communicate Their Status of Life-Giving Heme
- HUD Housing Assistance Linked to Improved Health Care Access
- Gravitational Waves Detected a Third Time
- Common Antioxidant Could Slow Symptoms of Aging in Human Skin
- UMD Names Laurie E. Locascio Vice President for Research
- University of Maryland-Phillips Collection Fellowship Awarded
- Unexpectedly Primitive Atmosphere Found Around Distant "Warm Neptune"
- Edward St. John Learning and Teaching Center at the University of Maryland Will Transform the Classroom Experience
- UMD Researchers Receive DARPA Funding to Study Language Learning
- UMD Study Finds that ACA Eased Financial Burden for People with Individual Health Insurance
- UMD-led Exercise Study Offers Hope in Fight Against Alzheimer's Disease
- Message from Interim Vice President for Research Amitabh Varshney
- Gov. Hogan Signs into Law $7.5M Maryland Energy Innovation Institute at UMD
- UMD Celebrates Research, Scholarship, and Research Communicator Impact Award Winners
- UMD Graduate Student Wins Prestigious Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for Innovative Bioengineering
- Campus Innovators, Partners Honored at “Innovate Maryland”
- University of Maryland Welcomes AWP to Discovery District
- UMD Research Provides Comprehensive Monitoring of Forest Loss in Brazilian Amazon
- University of Maryland Investigates Resistance to Glyphosate (Roundup) on Weeds in Major Crop Systems
- University of Maryland to Lead NIH-Funded Center for Engineering Complex Tissues
- UMD Researchers Uncover Alarming Trend in U.S. Maternal Death Statistics
- UMD-led Study Finds Ancient Earth’s Fingerprints in Young Volcanic Rocks
- UMD Researcher Awarded NSF Grant to Advance Diversity in STEM Fields
- Twenty-four UMD Students and Alumni Named NSF Graduate Research Fellows
- UMD Researchers Invent New Method to Control Cell Function with Electronics
- Safer Batteries Made With Wood
- UMD Invention Creates Streamlined Platform for Testing Effectiveness of Anti-Aging Cosmetics
- UMD Researchers Develop an Oral Topical Therapeutic Agent for Thrush
- UMD Researchers Create Affordable Camera Array That Captures Light Fields for Virtual Reality Applications
- Center for Research and Exploration in Space Science & Technology Signs $87.5M Cooperative Agreement with NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
- UMD Study Finds that Napping Flies Have Higher Resistance to Deadly Human Pathogen
- Multi-year Satellite Study Finds “Hotspots” of Airborne Ammonia over World’s Major Agricultural Areas
- New Method Enables Creation of Better Therapeutic Antibodies
- Researchers Introduce RoCo, a Mobile Personal Heating and Cooling Device
- University of Maryland Develops Model to Prevent E. coli Outbreaks in Leafy Greens
- Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center at UMD Signs $64.8M Cooperative Agreement with NASA
- Methane-filled Atmosphere of Early Earth Helped ‘Clear the Air’ for Oxygen
- Scientists Create World’s First Time Crystals
- Rapid Changes Point to Origin of Ultra-fast Black Hole “Burps”
- UMD Invention Tackles Remote Wireless Power Delivery
- New Vaccine Could Pave Way to Better Gastrointestinal Health in Children
- Brain and Behavior Initiative partners with Arena Stage
- University of Maryland Develops New CRISPR-Cpf1 Gene Editing System for Plants
- UMD Research Finds Young Latino Boys Tend to Have Stable Family Lives, Yet Lag on Academics
- Earth Likely Began with a Solid Shell
- New Link Found Between Sex and Viruses
- UMD Researchers' Innovation Takes Goal Setting to Whole New Level
- UMD Researchers Change the Game on Cyber Attack Evaluation
- UMD Researchers Use Space Laser Technology to Explain Dry Season Growth in Amazon Rainforest
- Invention of the Year Nominees Create Innovative Solutions in Health, Cybersecurity, Data, and Energy
- UMD Physicist Improves Method for Designing Experimental Fusion Reactors
- University of Maryland Blood Test Offers Potential Aid in Schizophrenia Diagnosis
- NAS Report on Everglades Restoration Co-authored by UMD Scientist Shows Progress, Raises Climate Concerns
- New $3.79 M Federal Grant Supports Ongoing UMD Research Revolutionizing Battery Tech
- Coastal Wetlands Excel at Storing Carbon
- UMD Team Tops for Performance & Operations at SpaceX Hyperloop Competition
- Autism May Begin Early in Brain Development UMD Research Shows
- UMD and VA Maryland Health Care System Collaborate on MS Research
- UMD-Led Study Finds Race Influences Likelihood of Getting a Flu Shot
- UMD Researchers Develop Electrogenetic Device to Switch Genes On and Off
- New UMD Model Analysis Shows Paris Climate Agreement Is ‘Beacon of Hope’ for Limiting Climate Warming & Its Damage
- Renowned UMD Professor Rita Colwell Named a Fellow in the National Academy of Inventors
- UMD Research Empowers Leaner Bus Systems for Schools
- Tracking the World's Final Wilderness Frontiers
- UMD Engineering Professor Receives Presidential Early Career Award
- UMD Research Reveals Reason for Growing Pest Damage in Genetically Protected Corn Crops
- Four UMD Alums Are Among those Selected for Forbes' 2017 30 Under 30 List
- UMD and Brazilian Scientists Find Murky Amazon Waters Cloud Fish Vision
- Worldwide Urban Expansion to Claim Some 186,000 Square Miles of Fertile Cropland
- UMD and Lund University Announce Winners for Research Workshops
- UMD Key Partner in New National Institute for Innovation of Manufacturing Biopharmaceuticals
- PALS Program Shares First Semester Project Results with City of Annapolis, Anne Arundel County
- UMD Researchers Find Ultra-thin Solution to Primary Obstacle in Solid-State Battery Development
- UMD Maintains Top 10 Spot as a Best Value Public College
- UMD-Led Team Studies Evolving Climate and Energy Policy Networks
- Lenzer to Cultivate UMD Innovation-Based Economic Development Efforts
- NanoCenter thanks departing co-founder
- UMD Receives $3M NSF Grant to Train Graduate Students in Network Biology
- Giant “Great Valley” Found on Mercury by Scientists from UMD and other Institutions
- University of Maryland Continues Rise in Ranking for Innovation & Entrepreneurship Education
- UMD and other Leading Academic and Research Institutions Form Global Network to Accelerate Climate Action
- UMD Meets Climate Action Goal of Reducing Greenhouse Gases by 25 Percent
- UMD-Led Study Links Extreme Heat to Increased Hay Fever in U.S. Adults
- Plant Scientists Identify Gene to Combat Crippling Wheat Disease
- New UMD Program Recognizes Not All Agricultural Leaders Are Farmers
- How Ezekiel’s Wheel Helped Turn African Americans into Christians: Unique Evidence Discovered by UMD Archaeologists
- University Researchers Pitch Bioscience Technologies at Annual Professor Venture Fair
- UMD Research Finds Timing, Party Control and Race Influence State Voter ID Laws
- Researchers Discover Solar Heat Island Effect Caused by Large-Scale Solar Power Plants
- Voters Concerned About “Rigged” System Heading into Election Day
- Fighting Food Safety Risks with Hazel Analytics
- UMD Named Among “Best for Vets” by Military Times
- New Model Explains the Moon’s Weird Orbit
- UMCP and UMB Celebrate Joint Research and Innovation
- EPA Recognizes University of Maryland for Leading Green Power Use
- UMD Ranked No. 40 in U.S. News Best Global Universities
- Fourteen Municipalities Awarded Sustainable Maryland Certified Status for 2016
- University of Maryland Strategic Partnership Unveils Center for Sports Medicine, Health and Human Performance
- UMD Celebrates Research Leaders, Announces Research Communicator Impact Award Winners
- University of Maryland and National Security Agency Partner to Support Future Cybersecurity Workforce
- It's Not Your Ears, It's Your Brain
- Discovery by UMD Biologists Reveals a Key Mechanism of Non-Genetic Inheritance
- National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center at UMD Receives $28.5M Renewal from the National Science Foundation
- UMD Professor Receives $720K from NSF for Research to Eliminate “Coffee Rust” Disease in Costa Rica
- UMD/Morgan State EDA Center Leverages New Funding to Network Statewide University Resources
- UMD Education Researchers Awarded $6.8M to Prepare Students with Disabilities for College, Workforce
- Exposure to High Numbers of Pesticides Linked to Honey Bee Deaths
- UMD Names Varshney Interim Vice President for Research
- UMD Welcomes Former U.S. Deputy Surgeon General as Dean of the School of Public Health
- UMD "PALS" Program Launches Partnership with Annapolis and Anne Arundel County
- UMD Researcher Awarded $1.8M to Develop Innovative Methods to Teach Foundational Math Skills
- $2.1M from the State of Maryland Will Match Private Donations for Two Endowed Chairs at UMD
- NSF Awards $3.45M National Innovation Ecosystem Grant to University of Maryland
- DeVos Institute at UMD Launches Investigation into the Impact of Technology on the Cultural Sector
- UMD Scientists Help Develop New Drought Early Warning Tool
- MD Professors and Alumnus Named 2016 Thomson Reuters Citation Laureates for Science of Chaos Work
- UMD-Led Team Cracks 60-Year Code Through Discovery of Enzyme that Optimizes Plant Life
- University of Maryland Launches Transformative Initiative to "Do Good"
- UMD Capitol Hill Forum Addresses Disparities Research, Action for Health Equity
- Psychology Researchers Awarded $2.2 Million to Study Social Impairment in Schizophrenia
- Biomedical Researchers Break New Ground in Fight Against Multiple Sclerosis
- President Wallace Loh, President Jay Perman Announce Plans for Maryland Academy for Innovation in National Security
- Calculating the Fuel that Powers Earth's Inner Engine
- UMD Named a Top 20 Public University by U.S. News & World Report
- University of Maryland Achieves First Flight of a Solar-Powered, Piloted Helicopter
- UMD Physicists Discover Laser Light "Smoke Rings"
- University of Maryland Named a Top Minority Degree Producer by Diverse Magazine
- University of Maryland Launches "Democracy Then & Now: Citizenship and Public Education"
- "Lifeline Across the Bay" Marks Milestone for the University of Maryland
- UMD Research Uncovers Warning Signs for Stone Age Population Collapse
- Use it or Lose it: UMD Study Shows Stopping Exercise Decreases Brain Blood Flow
- UMD Researchers Study Brain Circuits and Social Interactions in Children with Autism
- DOE Awards $1.25M to UMERC Researchers to Develop Safer, Better Batteries
- UMD to Host Capitol Hill Briefing on Health Equity
- National Endowment for the Humanities Grants UMD Libraries $250K to Digitize Historic Newspapers
- Wood Windows are Cooler than Glass
- UMD Research Finds Maternal Death Rate Increasing in U.S.
- Clear Link Found between Warming Climate and Rise in Ocean-borne Bacterial Illnesses
- UMD Researchers Develop Tool to Counter Public Health IT Challenges
- New Quantum Computer Module Sets Stage for General-Purpose Quantum Computers
- Newly Discovered 'Blue Whirl' Fire Tornado Burns Cleaner for Reduced Emissions
2015-2016 Academic Year
Spring Semester 2016
- UMD and ARL Partnership Harnesses the Power of Defense Supercomputing
- UMD Team Discovers Insight into the 'Language' Animals Use to Keep Cells Identical
- A Revolving Door: Researching Recurring Violent Injuries Among Urban Black Men
- UMD Journalism Students Cover Republican and Democratic National Conventions
- UMD Poll Reveals That As Benefits From Nuclear Deal Fall Short of Iranian Public's Expectations, Ahmadinejad Closes in on Rouhani
- UMD Named a Top 10 Best Value Public College by MONEY Magazine
- UMD Poll Sheds Light on American Attitudes Surrounding Orlando, the Middle East & U.S. Election
- UMD Ranked Among Top 15 Public Colleges by Forbes
- Unprecedented Alliance of Scientists, Physicians & Health Advocates Agree Toxic Chemicals Hurting Brain Development
- UMD Researcher Aims to Shed Light on How Tumor Cells Spread
- UMD Researchers Demonstrate Effectiveness of New Lidar Technology in Forest Mapping
- UMD, St. John Properties Partner on Proposal for Research and Development Space
- Gravitational Waves Detected from Second Pair of Colliding Black Holes
- Tiny Diamonds Could Enable Huge Advances in Nanotechnology
- O'Shea Appointed President of University College Cork
- Joint UMD Sadat Chair-Brookings Institution Shares Poll Findings on Refugee Crisis
- UMD Transportation Experts Issue Reports, Forecasts for Metro's SafeTrack Work Plan
- UMD Professor Contributes to NAS Report on Gene-Drive Modified Organisms
- More than 175 attend national Denice Denton Emerging Leaders Workshop
- DeVos Institute to Examine Implications of 21st-Century Technologies for Cultural Sector
- Researchers Awarded $500K NSF Grant to Study Experiences, Attitudes, Barriers to Integration and Success of Asian Americans
- UMD Study Finds Parental Perceptions of Neighborhood Environments Affect Children's Active Play
- Fischell Receives National Medal of Technology and Innovation
- UMD, COPT Welcome New Innovation Partners, Announce Speculative Office Building
- ACA Coverage for Young Adults Eases Financial Burden Related to Behavioral Health
- UMD Researchers Examine Health Care Access for Immigrant Populations on Maryland's Eastern Shore
- New Green Battery, Leukemia Vaccine, and Face Detection Software Honored at Awards Ceremony
- The 'Echoverse': A New Way to Think About Brand-Consumer Interactions
- More Salt Equals More Power for Safe, Green Water-Based Battery Tech
- Vibrant Mixed-Use Development to Transform Southern Gateway at University of Maryland
- Space Mission First to Observe Key Interaction Between Magnetic Fields of Earth and Sun
- More Salt, More Power: UMD, ARL Researchers Building Better Batteries
- Predicting Successful Cancer Treatment Methods for Individual Patients
- UMD Researchers Make Breakthrough in Terahertz Technology
- UMD Inventors to Change Future of Lithium Ion Batteries
- A View Through Wood Shows Futuristic Applications
- Developing a Mildew and Disease Resistant Wheat Variety
- UMD Climbs in Times Higher Education's World Reputation Rankings
- Maryland Climate and Health Report Identifies State's Vulnerabilities to Climate Change
- UMD Hosts Climate Action Forum, Welcomes Tim Wirth, the First-Ever Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs
- UMD Breaks Ground on Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Innovation
- UMD Kicks off National Future STEM Leaders Meetings
- Combatting Risky Business with UMD Researchers' Cyber Risk Portal
- UMD Inventors Develop Face, Gender, and Pose Detecting Algorithm
- Ingenious method enables sharper flat-panel displays at lower energy costs
- UMD Invention of the Year Nominee Could Hold Key to Preventing Gonorrhea
- UMD Inventors Determined to Save Lives and Cure Leukemia
- U.S. Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx Headlines University of Maryland Transportation Summit
- UMD Inventors Zoom In on New Camera Technology
- Alumni Dr. Jeong H. Kim Receives 2016 Horatio Alger Award
- UMD Invention of the Year Nominees Push Boundaries in Health, Energy, and Security
- UMD Startup Makes Strides in Cybersecurity
- Partnership with Walter Reed Bethesda to Benefit Wounded Warriors
- UMD School of Public Health Receives $10M to Lead USDA Center of Excellence for Sustainable Water Reuse, Food, and Health
- Kofinas Awarded Patent for Flexible Batteries
- Maryland research contributes to Google’s AlphaGo AI system
- Maryland Opera Studio Awarded Kurt Weill Foundation Grant
- Hu, Munday Selected for ONR Young Investigator Award
- UMD and Ulster University Announce Winners for Collaborative Research Workshops
- UMD has Largest University Showing at 2016 ARPA-E Summit
- BBI Seed Grant Winners Announced
- Workshop offers encouragment, skills, networking for emerging academic leaders
- UMD and São Paulo Research Foundation Announce Opportunities for International Research Collaboration
- UMD’s Anya Jones Receives Presidential Early Career Award
- Frankenfield Awarded ARMS-NCURA Fellowship for Research Administration Exchange
- UMD Accepted to Energy Department's 2017 Solar Decathlon Competition
- Two UMD Professors Elected to National Academy of Engineering
- O'Shea Appointed by Governor to Serve on Maryland Life Sciences Advisory Board
- UMD Launches Pioneering New Resource to Support $550M Research Enterprise
- You’ll Never Be-Leaf What Makes up This Battery
- $31M Grant Targets Quantum Computing's Error Control Challenge
- Qu Wins NIST Grant
- Two UMD Faculty Receive NASA Early Stage Innovations Awards
- Mote Named Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering
- Bergbreiter named director of Maryland Robotics Center
- University of Maryland Faculty, Alumni Named National Academy of Inventors Fellows
- Fisher Lab Researchers Examine Novel Method for 3-D Printing of Biodegradable Vascular Grafts
- UMD Researchers Create Low-Cost, High-Performing Cloud Storage Solution
- UMD Startup Helps Design Highly Efficient Fire Sprinkler Systems
- Espy-Wilson Featured in MIT’s Tech Review
- Diagnosing Better Efficiencies for Solar Cells
- Rubloff Discusses UMD Energy Storage Center and Energy Science Hot Topics
- UMD Researchers Use a Simple Stretch to Create Powerful Pseudomagnetic Fields in Graphene
- Prof. Ichiro Takeuchi Joins a National Center for Spintronics Research
- Wu Wins 2015 Signal Processing Society Meritorious Service Award
- UMD Bioscience Day 2015 Brings Together Researchers, Venture Capitalists, Entrepreneurs
- UMD & Army Researchers Discover Salty Solution to Better, Safer Batteries
- Jewell Lab Makes Strides in Multiple Sclerosis Research
- BioE Researchers Develop Nano-guided Cell Networks as Conveyors of Molecular Communication
- UMD Ranked Among Nation's Elite in Innovation & Entrepreneurship
- UMD Startup Delivers Simple Solutions For 'Big Data' Challenges
- UMD Discovery Could Enable Portable Particle Accelerators
- Lockheed Martin to Hold 2015 Innovation & Logistics Conference in College Park
- UMD Graduates Invent World's First Ultra-Clean Wood Stove
- ISR participates in NSF 30th Anniversary ERC Celebration
- White Symposium to Examine Collective Animal Behavior and Control of Robotic Networks
- UMD Among Largest Recipients of NSF Funding for Cybersecurity Research and Education
- University of Maryland, College Park & Baltimore Campuses Announce Seed Grant Winners
- UMD Named a Finalist for a 2015 Innovation & Economic Prosperity University Award
- Leonard to be Honored for Cooperative Control Innovations
- UMD Startup Technology Makes Drug Delivery Application Efficient to Aid Post-Surgery Recovery
- UMD Announces Winners of Inaugural Research Communicator Impact Award
- University of Maryland Research Park Named Top in the Nation
- Reimagining Fuel Cells Lands UMERC Director's Technology in NATURE
- O'Meara, Beise Receive NSF Grant to Support ADVANCE Faculty Workload and Rewards Project
- Visionary choreographer Huang Yi performs at Maryland, visits Robot Realization Lab
- Marshall Group Fire Safety Modeling System Highlighted by SFPE
- UMD Researchers Build a Smaller Device to Pick up Bigger Noises
- UMD Researchers Create Tool to Track Regional Experience, Language Skills, and More
- Schardt Awarded UMD-NCI Cancer Research Training Fellowship
- UMD Research Funding Surges 15%, Setting New Record
- UMD and Inovalon Collaborate to Launch Two New Major Healthcare Industry Research Studies
- UMD Researchers Creating First Onboard Fast-Charging System for Electric Vehicles
- Design Templates for Education Made Easy by UMD Startup
- Mesoscale Science Research Highlighted on Materials Journal Cover
- NSF Funds Novel Research to Create Scalable Wireless Networking, Averting Usage Crisis
- UMD Researchers’ New Nanoscale Solar Cells Could Revolutionize Solar Industry
- UMD Startup Makes Audio Software for Headphones Designed to Transport Listener to Another Place
- UMD Invention Could Make Your Mobile Device Almost Impossible to Break Into
- UMD Startup To Solve Energy Conversion Challenges in Thermal Systems
- Gates Foundation Supports UMD Research Addressing World Sanitation Problems
- University of Maryland Researchers Accept NASA Mission: Build a Better Battery for Space Exploration
- UMD Hosts Capitol Hill Panel on Autonomous Systems
- UMD National Transportation Center Awarded $4.5 Million Department of Energy Grant
2014-2015 Academic Year
Spring Semester 2015
- New Battery Demonstrates “Sweet Spot” of Electrolyte Thickness and Composition
- $1.25M Mellon Grant Awarded to Arts & Humanities to Fund Digital Humanities, African American Studies
- Two Maryland SOFC projects selected by the Department of Energy
- New UMD and JHU Computing Center to Boost Data Analytics Research
- Cumings Named Interim Director of Maryland NanoCenter
- UMD Ties with Stanford, MIT for Most Researchers on 2015 DOD Multidisciplinary Research Grants
- Redox Named Best Green Company in Maryland for 2015
- University of Maryland Wind Tunnel Media Day
- UMD Small Business Development Center Awarded Federal Grant to Assist Baltimore Businesses After Civil Unrest
- UMD Teams Awarded Over $5 Million to Improve Power Plant Cooling Technologies
- Food Safety, Energy Storage & Video Authentication Inventions Honored at Awards Ceremony
- For Batteries, One Material Does It All
- Invention of the Year Nominee: A New Joint Soldering Paste with High Temperature Resistance
- Chellappa Chairs Workshop to Benefit NOAA Fisheries
- Invention of the Year Nominee: A New Single-Photon Avalanche Diode System for LIDAR and Quantum Cryptography
- Invention of the Year Nominee: New Testing Method to Assess Foreign Language Aptitude
- Robo Raven on Display at a Major International Design Exhibit in France
- Center for Research in Extreme Batteries officially opens
- Invention of the Year Nominee: Method for Extracting ENF Signals from Video
- New AFOSR NIFTI Center features eight Clark School faculty
- Invention of the Year Nominee: A New Enzyme for Fighting Staphylococcus Bacterial Infection
- Invention of the Year Finalist: A Revolutionary, High Density, Nanopore Battery
- Invention of the Year Finalist: Rapid Method for Separating Bacteria from Complex Food Samples
- 30 Days of EnTERPreneurship Showcases Innovation at UMD
- Optimal control and strong interactions imply flock cohesion
- Invention of the Year Finalist: Intra-Lymph Node Cancer Vaccination Delivery
- Invention of the Year Finalist: National Database of Food Safety Inspections
- UMD’s Physics Frontier Center Renewed by National Science Foundation
- Dachman-Soled Wins NSF Career Award
- New Device Models Will Improve Design of Biomedical Devices
- UMD To Celebrate Innovations and Partnerships April 29
- UMD Mourns Passing of Benefactor and Alumnus A. James Clark
- U.S. News & World Report Graduate Rankings Place UMD Programs in Top 25
- Jonathan Simon Wins $1.5M NIH NIDCD Grant for 'Auditory Scene' Research
- UMD Partners with Army to Launch Extreme Battery Research Center
- Munday Named 2015 OSA Lomb Medal Recipeint
- Radermacher Receives Institute of Refrigeration J&E Hall Gold Medal
- Simple Stretchable Conducting Material is Robust and Inexpensive
- Non-Toxic, Edible Materials Could Help Break Up Oil Slicks
- Four Sloan Research Fellowships Awarded to UMD Faculty Members
- High Capacity in a Small Package: Invention Could Revolutionize Energy Storage
- UMD Researchers Find Stress of Living in U.S. Negatively Impacts Black Immigrants' Health
- Understanding Battery Failure in Realtime, at the Nanoscale
- Alumnus DJ Patil Named Nation's First Chief Data Scientist
- Combustion Institute Honors Paper on Burning Rate Modeling Breakthrough
- UMD Engineers & Tight End Team Up on "Catchy" New Football Product
- Customized Soap Bubbles Set to Transform Drug and Vaccine Delivery
- UMD Among Top Universities Worldwide Producing VC-Backed Entrepreneurs
- UMD Researchers Publish Findings from Closest-Ever Look at a Comet
- President’s Proposed Tax Credit Designed by UMD Faculty
- Sarah Bergbreiter gives TED Talk on microrobotics
- Center for Advanced Study of Language Appoints Michael May Executive Director
- Maimon Publishes Research Findings on Hacker Behavior
- Research Findings May Lead to New Materials That Can Superconduct at Room Temperature
- Hartzell Receives Astronomical Honor
- School of Public Health Students Lead Community Focused Weight Loss Campaign
- Robots Learn by Watching Videos
- Researchers Show Link Between Urbanization and Reduced Global Energy Use
- Study Transforms Understanding of Plant Evolution
- Poll Probes Americans' Attitudes Toward ISIS and Syria
- UMD Online Engineering Programs Continue to Climb in Standings
- UMD Researchers Explore New Avenues in Treatment of Lysosomal Storage Diseases
- Six UMD Faculty Named AAAS Fellows, 3rd Most Among Universities Worldwide
- Saving Energy with ‘Personal HVAC Systems’
- UMD Physics Professor Confirmed as Head of ARPA-E
- UMD Ranked Among World’s Best in Science Research Productivity
- UMD UAS Test Site Flies Talon 240
- John Baras elected AAAS Fellow
- Faster Charging Technique Boosts Battery's Capacity
- UMD Clark School Highlights Disaster Resilience at Mpact Week
- Quantum Information Expert Joins UMD QuICS
- University of Maryland Breaks Ground for A. James Clark Hall
- Mayergoyz and McAvoy Publish Unique Text on Electric Power Engineering
- UMD Scientist Awarded NIH Grant to Further Lyme Disease Research
- Hu, Leite Named Outstanding Engineer and Scientist of the Year (VIDEO)
- Mental Health Advances Featured in Newsweek
- UMD Researchers Receive $2.5m Grant to Study Link Between Aid and Conflict
- Beyond a Linguistics Resource
- Patents Seminar: An Eye Opener for Many
- UMD Astronomers to Analyze Surface of Comet as Spacecraft Drops Robotic Probe on It
- UMD Researchers Help Develop Open-Source 'Plant Library'
- Dr. Puett’s Research Examines How Exercising Outdoors or Indoors Influences Mental and Physical Wellbeing
- UMD Cyber Experts Discover Lapses in Heartbleed Bug Fix
- A Billion Holes Can Make a Battery
- Can Diseased Lungs and Positive Thoughts Deter Smoking?
- Diversify the Faculty, Transform the University
- Lockheed Martin to hold 2014 Innovation & Logistics Conference in College Park
- Assessing the Impact of Digitized Ethnographic Collections
- UMD, NIST Announce Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science
- UMD Professor's Company Wins Tech Cocktail's "Celebrate" Competition, Named "Nation's Hottest Start-up"
- Emerging Disease Could Wipe Out American, European Salamanders
- Research & Innovation Continue to Grow in College Park
- iSchool Researchers Develop New Technology to Support Citizen Science Sustainability Projects
- UMD and UW Lead New NIH-funded Mentor Training Program to Advance Diversity of Biomedical Workforce
- Campus boosts support for Open Access Publishing Fund
- New Equipment and Science Capabilities at Army Research Lab
- UMD Researchers Formulate Cyber Protection for Supply Chains
- UMD Researchers Use Artificially Engineered Materials to Create Breakthrough for Sound Sensors
- UMD Partners with MITRE on Cybersecurity Research and Development Center
- Diagnostic anSERS Launches Affordable Trace Technology
- UMD Researchers Receive Grants under New Federal BRAIN Initiative
- Washington Post and UMD to take the Pulse of Maryland Voters
- UMD Professor Receives $1.9M to Study Cell “Glue” Important in Disease
- UMD Alumnus and CEO, Brendan Iribe, purchases liscensing rights to UMD-founded Company
- CHSE Researcher Recognized for a Lifetime of Achievement in Counseling Psychology
- UMD and NIH Researchers Receive $1.7M BRAIN Grant to Investigate How Crowds of Neurons Process Sensory Information
- UMD engineers create tiny, robust rubber micro-component.
- Major Milestone in the Search for Water on Distant Planets
- Leidos Invests in Innovation Partnership with the University of Maryland
- Brain-behavior initiative workshop draws 160 faculty, deans, adminstrators for wide-ranging discussions
- Li and Hu Awarded NSF Grant to Study Challenges in Creating Materials that are Both Stronger and Tougher
- Tigers, Pandas & People: A Recipe for Conservation Insights
- New Detector Captures Unprecedented Range of Light Waves
- New Research Unveils Population Patterns of U.S. Immigrants from Mexico
- Closest-Ever Orbiter Sends Data on "Rubber Ducky" Comet
- Eight Open Source Myths Corrected
- Hydrogen & Solar Power Boosted by New Ability to Shape Nanostructures
- Free, Open Entrepreneur Office Hours Come to Baltimore
- UMD Receives NSF Major Research Instrumentation Award in Support of Virtual and Augmented Reality
- UMD Researchers Awarded $1.6 Million to Fight Flu in Pigs
- UMD Clark School to Host Mpact Week: Disaster Resilience
- UMD Collaborative Analysis Reveals Massive Intact Forest Area Degradation Since 2000
- Algorithm Set to Take Translation Memory Systems by Storm
- University of Maryland Orbital Debris Education and Research Center to Host Inaugural Workshop
- Students Use UMD Supercomputer to Design, Test Materials
- Hydrophobically Modified Polymers Create “Cell Gels”
- University of Maryland Opens Unmanned Aircraft Systems Test Site in Southern Maryland
2013-2014 Academic Year
Spring Semester 2014
- Human Cells' Protein Factory Has an Alternate Operating Manual
- Interactive Seminar on Analytical and Functional Biophotonics July 17
- Workshop on Defects in Wide Band Gap Semiconductors Sept. 23
- Discover, Create, Deploy: Professors Contribute to Materials Genome Initiative
- Adding Lithium Boosts Transparency and Conductivity of Graphite
- UMD Contributes to Revitilization of Nearby Community
- University of Maryland Scientists Identify New Microbes Linked to Severe Diarrhea
- International research partnership leads to major publication on controlling living cells with artificial cells
- UMD Helping Evaluate Innovative Form of Counseling
- $3.2M ARPA-E Award Supports Development of Combined Cooling/Heating/Power System
- UMD Nets a DOE Award for Innovative Energy Research Projects
- UMD Welcomes Johns Hopkins to DC Innovation Corps
- UMD Spin-Off Gets a Boost
- FIA-Deutsch Seed Grant Honorees Working in Ecuador
- Annual Cyber Symposium Brings Large Crowd, Interesting Discussion
- Room To Move: Spacing Graphite Layers Makes a Better Battery Anode
- New Technology Key to Averting Massive Wave of Extinctions
- UMD Receives $1.2 Million HHMI Grant for Science Education
- NSF Award Sponsors Student’s Microscopy Research in Sweden
- Offshore Wind Energy and Reliability
- Beyond Red vs Blue: Study of States Finds "Tight" vs "Loose"
- Racing the Clock to Help New Patients with Old Hearts
- Marquardt Wins Dean’s Doctoral Research Award for “Protecting Art with Nanotechnology”
- University of Maryland Establishes Orbital Debris Research Center
- Cyber Symposium to Look at Infiltration, Criminology and More
- UMD Launches New Supercomputer to Expand High-Performance Computing for Research
- U.S. Consumption Linked to Global Distribution of Wealth, Pollution
- UMD's WaterShed Grows Roots at Pepco's Rockville Facility
- Big Health Concerns Over NanoTech: UMD Pursues Research for Sustainable Solutions
- UMD Recieves $4.5M for Science of Security "Lablet"
- Students Awarded Prestigious Research Fellowships
- Shaking Things Up: UMD Engineering Students Build Innovative Solution to Help Save Honey Bees
- MC2 Director Katz Testifies Before Senate Subcommittee on Investing in Cybersecurity
- Women with Unintended Pregnancies Take Shortest Maternity Leaves
- Fire Protection Startup Wins Awards in MIT Clean Energy Prize Competition
- UMD Joining CIC is a 'Big Ten Deal' for Academics
- Researchers at UMD, UCONN, and Rice Awarded MURI
- UMD Professor Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- UMD Celebrates Inventions and Partnership
- The Short List: Invention of the Year Finalists
- New Class of Antiepileptic Drugs
- Secret Military Test, Coming Soon to Your Spanish Class
- Invention of the Year Finalist
- Exercise Keeps Hippocampus Healthy In People at Risk for Alzheimer's
- Invention of the Year Finalist
- New Physical Sciences Complex Holds Revolutionary Promise
- Call for Papers: NanoDay 2014
- Mayergoyz Main Speaker at Weierstrass Institute Workshop
- UMD-Designed WaterShed to Open at Pepco Sustainability Center Dedication
- Invention of the Year Finalist
- Smarter Translation
- The Quest for a Better Battery
- Smithsonian Secretary Clough To Deliver Special Lecture at UMD
- 2014 UMD Corporate Connector of the Year Announced
- How do you like them apples?
- Disease Diagnostic Group Wins UMD's Cupid's Cup
- Cell Phone Snoopers Beware of These Invention of the Year Finalists!
- The sky's the limit for these UMD Invention of the Year Finalists
- Six Aerospace Engineering Students Win NSF Fellowships
- Researchers Find Keys to Societal Sustainability
- Announcing a Tacky UMD Invention of the Year Finalist
- Innovative material leads to better 3D-printed artificial blood vessels
- Whiting-Turner Lecture Series to Feature Chasen and Chowdhury
- UMD's Autonomous Vehicle Laboratory Featured in The Accelerator
- Foraging Bats Warn Others Away From Their Dinners
- 30 Days of EnTERPreneurship Showcases Innovation at UMD
- Women's Cancer Screenings Down During Great Recession
- Kelvin Wave Seen on Quantum "Tornado" for First Time
- Salamanders Shrink as Their Mountain Havens Heat Up
- Vishkin Offers Fresh Perspective on Commodity Computing in ACM Viewpoint
- LaMaster Named Exectuive Director, MPowering the State
- UMD Hackathon Team Featured on NPR
- Breast Cancer Gene Could Play Critical Role in Obesity and Diabetes
- Council on the Environment Junior Faculty Award
- Tiny Origami Boxes Hold Big Promise for Hydrogen Energy Storage
- Animals Key to Biodiversity of Over-Fertilized Prairies
- Davis Contributes Expertise to ASCE, EPA Initiatives
- Lockheed Martin, University of Maryland Partner to Develop Next Generation Quantum Computer
- Study Links Abuser Arrests to Early Death in Victims
- Most Children Unaware of Cigarette Warning Labels
- Registration Open for UMD Project Management Symposium
- UMD Professor Named Scientist of the Year
- How Evolution Shapes the Geometries of Life
- Using the Power of Social Media to Enhance Product Innovation
- New Map of Twitterverse Finds 6 Types of Networks
- Dynamic Alert System Will Protect Global Forests
- UMD Company CoolCAD Launches Kickstarter Campaign for Security Keychain that Locks Your Computer When You Are Away
- Classics Awarded Large Grant From the National Italian American Foundation
- UMD Hosts Inaugural Project Management Symposium
- WellDoc Closes $20 Million in Strategic Financing
- UMD Alumnus Company Squarespace to Run Inaugural Big Game Ad
- Gamera Human-Powered Helicopter Team's 97-Second Flight Record Certified by NAA
- Mtech TAP Incubator Graduate Neuralstem Inc. Closes $20 Million Investment
- Pixelligent Granted Innovation Research Award for Next-Generation OLED Lighting
- UMD Entrepreneurship and Innovation Program Wins National Award for Excellence in Entrepreneurship Education
- Half of Black Males, 40% of White Males Arrested by 23
- UMD Researcher Helps Arm the Immune System to Fight Cancer
- Bioentrepreneurship Leader Joins UM Ventures Team
- Maryland to Collaborate with VA, NJ on Unmanned Aircraft Systems Research
- Two Clark School Faculty Members Receive Presidential Early Career Awards
- Inadequate Pregnancy Weight Gain a Risk Factor for Infant Mortality
- UMD Research on the Angelina Jolie Effect
- Despite fewer attacks in Western world, global terrorism increasing
- Crime and punishment: interdisciplinary researchers explain ‘third party’ evolution
- C. Wang Enters R&D Partnership with Huizhou Eve Energy
- University of Maryland 2013 Holiday Greeting
- Longer Maternity Leave Lowers Risk of Postpartum Depression
- Human Activity, Forest Loss Threaten Closest Kin
- Meet the First Chief Futurist for the Division of Research
- Williams Nominated to Lead ARPA-E
- The Era of Neutrino Astronomy Has Begun
- 3D-Printed Heart Implant Wins Professor Venture Fair
- UMD Joins Partnership to End Water Insecurity
- Scientists Nearing Forecasting Capability of Wildfires
- UMD Leads 1st Local-to-Global Mapping of Forest
- Team Mulciber to Compete as Finalist in Wood Stove Decathlon
- New IBBR Director Envisions Premier Biotechnology Research Institute
- UMD Team Wins 2013 American Public Health Association's Affordable Care Act Codeathon
- 25 Kilowatts in a Redox Box: Affordable Fuel Cell, Cheaper Power
- UMD Faculty Publish Research That Provides Insights on Brain Injuries
- Alumnus Krill to Be Honored for Revolutionary Naval Fleet Network Technology
- Statement from the University of Maryland Division of Research on the Effects of the Government Shutdown on Research
- Schultheis to Lead New UMD Regulatory Science Initiative
- NSF-Backed DC I-Corps Kicks Off First Cohort with 20 Federal Laboratory, University and Regional Inventors, Entrepreneur Teams
- UMD Ranked Top Public School for Tech Entrepreneurship in 2013 StartEngine College Index
- Fischell Department of Bioengineering to Host 7th Fischell Festival
- Desai's Neurosurgical Robot Designed for Brain Surgery Featured on NPR
- UMD to Solve Global Language Problems at New Language Science Research Center
- UMD Leads New National Center for Strategic Transportation Policies, Investments, and Decisions
- Mpact Week to Showcase UMD Robotics, Bioengineering, Innovation, Oct. 23-26
- M-CERSI Day Highlights Regulatory Science
- UMD Receives Largest Ever Software Grant from Siemens
- Desai's Neurosurgical Robotics Technology Featured in NIH Story
- UMD Researchers Make Cover of Science, Find Whooping Cranes Learn Migration from Older Birds
- UMD Researchers Awarded Two ARPA-E Grants for Electric Vehicle Energy Storage Systems
- Meet the Potential Future of Electricity Generation
- UMD Propulsion Technology Offers New Possibilities for Satellite Positioning, Space Exploration
- UMD Study Offers Hope for Those with Serious Vision Problems
- Research Study Shows Timber Rattlesnakes Keep Lyme Disease in Check
- UMD Researchers Find Exercise May be the Best Medicine for Alzheimer's
2012-2013 Academic Year
Spring Semester 2013
- Study Shows Common Chemicals Harm Honey Bees' Health
- Climate Changes Will Produce Wine Winners and Losers
- UMD Researchers Find Starburst Wind Keeps Galaxies 'Thin'
- UMD Team Receives Keck Foundation Grant to Design and Build New Photonic Spectrometer
- Mapping the Brain To Understand Cultural Differences
- UMD-UMB Research Seed Grant Winners Announced at Reception
- UMD Joins Leading Research University Global Network
- A Battery Made of Wood?
- UMD's Mote Elected NAE President
- 43 UMD Students Accepted into NIST Summer Research Program
- UMD's Gamera Team Receives Support from Maryland Space Business Roundtable
- Goldsman and Peckerar Win Inaugural University System of Maryland Entrepreneurship Award
- Nearly 1 in 3 U.S. Honeybees Lost in Winter 2012-13
- Life-Saving Technology That Stops Severe Bleeding Awarded $500k Fed Grant
- UMD Research: Americans Feel Less Rushed, Less Happy
- Cyber Symposium Tackles Policy, Tech, Privacy & More - May 14-15
- Why Do Guppies Jump? Maryland Biologist Provides Answers
- Hubble Brings Faraway Comet Into View
- UMD, Xerox Seek to Improve Mobile Document Scanning
- Study on Bats, Rats Finds that Analysis of Many Species Is Required to Better Understand the Brain
- UMD Recognizes Most Promising Innovations at Invention of the Year Awards
- New Report Shows Terrorism is Top of Mind in U.S.
- Students Present at Graduate Research Interaction Day 2013
- 'MPowering the State' Reveals Impact and Potential
- Researchers Expose the Human Side of Cybercrime
- UMD Hosts 'Public Health Research@Maryland' Day
- Astronomers Take a Closer Look at Comet ISON
- Earth Day 2013 Event to Address the Energy and Water Nexus
- UM College Park and Baltimore Campuses Celebrate First Year of Collaborative Success
- UMD Research Offers A Look into the Future of Quantum Computing
- Research Study Finds Bias Blocks Women in Science
- UMD Researchers Uncovering How Humans Hear One Voice Among Many
- Dried but Not Forgotten: UMD Herbarium Offers Clues Into Earth's Evolving Environment
- UMD Featured on U.S. Department of Energy's .EDUconnections
- UMD, NASA-Goddard Create Joint Global Carbon Cycle Center
- NanoOptics Lab Opens, Offers Seminar and Free Evaluation
- UMD Awarded $5.9M Grant for Health Equity Research
- Nano ‘Beads on a String’ Could Advance Battery Technology
- UMD, GWU, and VT Awarded $3.75M by NSF to Launch Regional I-Corps Node for National Innovation Network
- Researchers Achieve Breakthrough in Nanoprecision Imaging
- Clark School Alumnus Jeong Kim Nominated for Ministry Post in South Korea
- UMD Senior is First Terp to Win Gates Cambridge Scholarship
- AGNR Professor to Fill New Leadership Role at NOAA
- UMD Time Reversal Findings May Open Doors to the Future
- UMD and ManTech Announce Partnership for Advanced Cybersecurity Research
- UMD Researchers Achieve Breakthrough in Nanoprecision Imaging
- Flexible Nanopaper Featured in Chemical & Engineering News
- UMD Scientists Discover Protein that Enables Safe Recycling of Iron from Old Red Blood Cells
- Comet Debuting in New Deep Impact Movie Expected to Star this Winter
- UMD Doctoral Student Recognized for Outstanding Research in Entrepreneurship
- Spring 2013 Google Cybersecurity Seminar Series Opens With Michael Franz
- UMD Research Team Developing Powerful Data Visualization Tool with Support from Oracle
- UMD Researchers Publish Groundbreaking Findings on Global Biodiversity & Alternative Energy
- "Invisible" Filipino History in Annapolis Documented by UMD Researchers
- UMD Expert Recognized in Movement to Improve Capital Markets
- Top Lockheed Martin Innovation Award Goes to University of Maryland Researcher
- NASA Awards $36 Million to UMD for Earth Systems Study
- Davis Awarded $4M Multidisciplinary Research Initiatives Contract
- President Loh Announces Commission for UMD, Big Ten/CIC Integration
- Innovative Drug Delivery System Wins Venture Fair at UMD Bioscience Research Day
- Pessoa Named First Director of UMD's Maryland Neuroimaging Center
- UMD Joint Institute for Food Safety Receives $11M FDA Grant to Help Secure Global Food Supply
- UMD Time Reversal Findings May Open Doors to the Future
- UMD, Lockheed Martin Sign Master Research Agreement
- "Could We Have Been Better Prepared?"
- Vehicular Cybersecurity Workshop Announced
- New NIH Grant to Advance Joint UMD & UMB Brain Surgery Robot Development
- National Weather and Climate Prediction Center Opens at the University of Maryland
- O’Shea to Serve as Vice Chair of Maryland Innovation Initiative
- University of Maryland Criminology Program Featured in Philadelphia News
- START Center’s Global Terrorism Database Links Most Active Terrorist Groups to Al-Qaida
- UMD Names Director for Nation’s First Undergraduate Honors Program in Cybersecurity
- New $2M NIH Grant to Advance Brain Surgery Robot Development
- University of Maryland Researchers Perform Flu Study
- UMD Researchers Co-Create Smart Phone App to Identify Trees by Their Leaves
- NOAA’s Center for Weather and Climate Prediction Opens at UMD Research Park
- UMD School of Public Health Researchers Develop TreadSense Treadmill
- UMD Researchers Work on Vaccine to Stop the Spread of HIV
- UMD Researchers Help to Identify Best Food Safety Practices for Tomatoes, Leafy Greens
- UMD Researcher Develops Software to Track Real-Time Reactions to Presidential Debates
- New UMD Joint Public Health School Established Between College Park and Baltimore Campuses
- UMD Researchers Awarded EPA Grant to Reduce Pollution in the Chesapeake Bay
- UMD Researchers Plan Strategic Defense Against the Invasive Stink Bug
- UMD Researchers Find Exercise May Have Extended Health Benefits
- UMD’s Mote Elected President of the National Academy of Engineering
- UMD's Besharov Analyzes Trends in U.S. Poverty Rate
- UMD Researchers Develop New Methods to Combat Terrorist Group
- Maryland Remains A Top School for Student Entrepreneurs
- UMD Researchers Find Microgreens to Have High Levels of Nutrients
- FDA Leaders, Industry Call for Major Strides in Regulatory Science at UM CERSI Day
- UMD's Hurtt named Leader for NASA’s Carbon Monitoring System Project
- The Future of Information Alliance at UMD Awarded $1 Million
- University of Maryland and University College Cork Enter into Partnership
- UMD’s Wachsman Participates in Discussions on Maryland’s Electric Distribution
- First-of-Kind Study To Test Effectiveness of Emergency Alerts Via Mobile
- USA Today Names DC Among Best Technology Start-Up Towns
- UMD Researchers Find Half of Aerosols in America Originate from Other Continents
- New Policies Part of Statewide Push to Promote Commercialization
- UMD Biologists Discover Cave Catfish Use “Teeth” to Navigate
- UMD MIPS Program Approves 19 Technology Development Projects Worth $4 Million
- UMD Researchers Implement Sensors on Bridges to Prevent Disasters
- School of Public Health Awarded Grant to Support Caregivers of Military Families
- UMD-Led Study Analyzes Best Practices to Combat Terrorism
- UMD's MITH Receives NEH Chairman's Cooperative Agreement for "Shared Horizons"
2011-2012 Academic Year
Spring Semester 2012
- Discovery of Higgs Boson, or “God Particle,” Could Unlock Mystery of Matter
- UMD Researchers Develop Miniaturized Components Needed for Medical Diagnostics and Sensors
- UMD Researchers Demonstrate Importance of Quieter Ocean Energy Development
- UMD VP for Research O'Shea Speaks at Europe's Largest Science Conference, EuroScience Open Forum
- UMD Researchers Evaluate Growing Importance of the "Urban Watershed"
- UMD and Northrop Grumman Launch Nation's First Undergraduate Cybersecurity Honors Program
- UMD Plays Key Role in Project IDing Bacteria that Cohabit Human Body
- Ant-Sized Robots May Save First Responders' Lives
- UMD Researchers Create Faster, More Sensitive Infrared Photodetector
- Researchers Find Personalized Touchscreen Keyboards Improve Typing Speed
- UMD VP for Research Attends West Point Cyber Security Conference
- Clark School of Engineering Students Win Hydrogen Design Contest
- UMD Scientists Create Faster, More Sensitive Photodetector by Tricking Graphene
- UMD Researchers Develop a Mobile Phone Application to Escort Students Home
- DoD Grant to Support UMD Research on Preventing, Reversing Terrorist Radicalization
- NEA Grant Supports UMD Research
- UMD's Center for Advanced Study of Language Cited as a Critical DoD Program
- Researchers Study Effects of Income Inequality on Teen Birth Rate
- FDA-Supported Center to Improve Drugs and Medical Device Evaluation
- VP for Research Visits Eastern Shore on Economic Development Tour
- UMD Professor Featured in Slate as Program Manager of BOLT
- Graduate Research Interaction Day Showcases Student Research
- Groundbreaking UMD Study about Kids and Race Featured in CNN Series
- Gens. Alexander & Hayden Headline UMD Summit on Language Research
- UMD Researcher Studies Panda Reproductive Behaviors
- Director of ESSIC Invited to Speak at Sandia Lab's Climate Change and National Security Speaker Series
- UMD Researchers Find Postpartum Depression Raises Healthcare Costs
- UMD's Palmer Interviewed by New York Times Following Visit to North Korea
- USM Board of Regents Approves Bold Collaboration between UMD and UMB
- UMD Scientists Research Formation of Moon
- UMD Study Finds Excess Corporate Cash Could Create 2.4M Jobs
- UMD Researchers Find Cell Phone Use Linked to Selfish Behavior
- UMD Launches New National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC)
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