AIM Seed Grants Support 22 AI Research Projects

Pulling the Global Fire Alarm: UMD's Unique Forest-Monitoring Capabilities Revealed an Alarming Wildfire Spike

Scientists Develop "Mosquito STD" to Combat Malaria

Satellites Offer New View of Chesapeake Bay's Marine Heat Waves

Criminal Calculations: How Students in UMD's Forensic Accounting Club Helped Crack a Murder Case

Divorce Hurts Children's Long-term Earnings, Increases Chances Chances of Teen Births, Time in Jail 

UMD To Launch New IRB Submission System

MLB Umpires Save Energy for the Hard Calls

Unearthing a Campus' Past: Students Look for Clues to Life Before UMD’s Founding in Ongoing Archeological Project

Astronomers Discover Mysterious Milky Way Object That Emits Radio Waves and X-rays

UMD Astrophysicist, Brenda Dingus, Elected to National Academy of Sciences

Hannah Zierden's NSF CAREER Award To Address Women’s Health

Merrill College's Capital News Service Wins 17 MDDC Press Association Awards

Global Methane Abatement Solutions Tracker Launched by Center for Global Sustainability

UMD Neuroscientist Calls for Clearer Nomenclature in Photoreceptor Research

Pregnant People, Infants Prone to Wildfire Smoke Often Lack Health Care Access

TDPS Alumni, Faculty and Students Win 2025 Helen Hayes Awards

NASA's Parker Solar Probe Reveals a Key Particle Accelerator Near the Sun

Smith's Snider Center Launches Social Media and Market Dynamics Lab with Support from Narravance

UMD's Paul Jaffe Featured in DARPA Program Sets Distance Record for Power Beaming

Reimagining Information Access: How INFO Is Centering Immigrant Voices in Tech, Policy & Archives

The Tax Revenue and Problem-Gambling Balancing Act

Discovery Led by Professor Cheng Gong Featured in Nature Physics Journal

Smith School Launches Groundbreaking Report on Logistics Tech Investment

Firefighting Drones Under Development at University of Maryland

Reuter Calls for Better Data, Smarter Policy in Opioid and Money Laundering Response Policy

American Chemistry Council Honors Chemical Engineer with Responsible Care Award

Studying Dust in the Wind: Astronomy Ph.D. Student Serena Cronin Explores Space Dust, Galactic Winds and Other Cosmic Phenomena

ECE Postdoc Yu Shi Featured in PRX Quantum

Mortgage Credit Risk Remains Low, Stable in New Report from UMD's Smith Enterprise Risk Consortium

Exoplanet Explorer Helps Astronomers See the Unseeable

Clifford Rossi and Tim Canty Featured in The Value of Public Climate Data 

MSE Student John Hoerauf Selected for Prestigious Department of Energy Graduate Research Program

Dan Gruner Quoted in How To Protect Your Kids From Mosquitoes and Other Bugs This Summer

Kislaya Prasad Quoted in How Tariffs Could Change Maryland's Global Trade Numbers

Soheil Feizi Quoted in A New Headache for Honest Students: Proving They Didn't Use A.I.

Oliver Schlake Quoted in Beyond the Office: Preparing for Disasters in a Remote Work World

David Karol Quoted in What To Know About Baltimore U.S. Rep. Mfume’s Run for a Leadership Role

Sujay Kaushal Quoted in Why Salt Is Threatening America’s Rivers and Drinking Water

Thomas Abt Quoted in Funding for Gun Violence Prevention Gutted

Peter Potapov Quoted in ‘Global Red Alert’: Forest Loss Hits Record High – and Latin America Is the Heart of the Inferno

Joshua Weitz Quoted in New Details of Federal Budget Cuts Alarm Researchers

Tom Rosenstiel Quoted in OAN’s Pentagon Reporter Learns the Limits of Expressing Her Own Opinion

William Bowerman Quoted in Virginia Man Sentenced for Killing Birds of Prey, Including a Bald Eagle

Donald Milton Quoted in For Latter-Day Saints Afraid of Getting Sick at Church, New Guidelines Are a Breath of Fresh Air

Jacob Wenegrat Quoted in Marine Heat Waves in the Chesapeake Bay Doubled Over Past Two Decades, According to New Research

Melissa Schettini Kearney Quoted in Study Reveals Factor Stopping Americans From Having Many Kids

Katharine Abraham Quoted in Is the 4.2% Unemployment Rate Truly Capturing What’s Happening in the Labor Market?

Ian Miers Quoted in Elon Musk Launches Signal Rival XChat, But Experts Question ‘Bitcoin-Style’ Encryption

June 5-8, 2025: Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies 2025 Annual Conference

June 9, 2025: The Business of Journalism—Reinventing Local News: Revenue Models, Innovation and the Future

June 13, 2025: Geographical Disparities in Health Equity & Access

June 13, 2025: Quantum Vortices of Photons

June 15-18: 7th IIR Conference on Thermophysical Properties and Transfer Processes of Refrigerants

June 18, 2025: ETS Brownbag—Making your Day Easier

June 20, 2025: Policy, Health Misinformation & Public Trust

June 24, 2025: Symposium on Counterfeit Parts and Materials

June 25, 2025: Summer Seminar— Civic Engagement Across the Curriculum

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