2025 | August 8th Issue
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$2.85M Gift to Expand Computing Pathways at UMD
$2.85M Gift to Expand Computing Pathways at UMD

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A New Page in U.S. History
A New Page in U.S. History: Grad Student Finds Little-Known Correspondence Between George Mason and George Washington

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National Science Foundation Invests $2M in AI Investigation to Advance Sustainable Biopolymers
Grand Challenges: NSF Invests $2M in AI Investigation to Advance Sustainable Biopolymers

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UMD Geophysicist Helps ID Moonquake Dangers to Future Missions
UMD Geophysicist Helps ID Moonquake Dangers to Future Missions

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Researchers Spy Finish Line in Race for Majorana Qubits | Joint Quantum Institute
Researchers Spy Finish Line in Race for Majorana Qubits

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Tatiana Loboda Awarded $1M Grant to Create Early Warning Systems for Infectious Diseases in Indonesia
Tatiana Loboda Awarded $1M Grant to Create Early Warning Systems for Infectious Diseases in Indonesia

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Parents Typically Track Children's Growth. UMD Research Could One Day...
Parents Typically Track Children's Growth. UMD Research Could One Day Let Them Follow Brain Development.

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To Fight Wildfires, Look to Social Media, UMD Researcher Says
To Fight Wildfires, Look to Social Media, UMD Researcher Says

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Study: Misinformation Spreaders Reframe News From Reputable Sources...
Misinformation Spreaders Reframe News From Reputable Sources to Support False Claims

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Cybersecurity MOOC Surpasses 500,000 Enrollments, Explores AI and Policy | UMD School of Public Policy
Cybersecurity MOOC Surpasses 500,000 Enrollments, Explores AI and Policy

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Major Health Insurance Gap for Some Adopted Children

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New technology could help pilots avoid spatial disorientation, improving flight safety. Here's how.
New Technology Could Help Pilots Avoid Spatial Disorientation, Improving Flight Safety

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UMD Researchers Find Homeownership Increasingly Out of Reach for...
UMD Researchers Find Homeownership Increasingly Out of Reach for Marylanders 

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Molloy Receives NSF CAREER Award to Advance Evolutionary Biology with Novel Computational Tools
Molloy Receives NSF CAREER Award to Advance Evolutionary Biology with Novel Computational Tools

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Banks' Efforts to Curb Money Laundering Fail Abysmally, Says UMD...
Banks' Efforts to Curb Money Laundering Fail Abysmally, Says UMD Criminologist

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FDA Taps Smith Expert in Making Case for Drug Manufacturing Efficiency
FDA Taps Smith Expert in Making Case for Drug Manufacturing Efficiency

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More than 25K Enroll in Smith AI Course for Career Empowerment
More than 25K Enroll in Smith AI Course for Career Empowerment

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Two MEI2 energy seed awardees receive MD Commerce Build Our Future grants
Two MEI2 Energy Seed Awardees Receive MD Commerce Build Our Future Grants

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Being a Good Mentor
Kimberly Griffin: Being a Good Mentor

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Introducing a High Resolution Atlas of U.S. Offshore Wind Profiles - ESSIC
Introducing a High Resolution Atlas of U.S. Offshore Wind Profiles - ESSIC

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Research from Smith Looks at Progress and Prospects with Large Language Models and Synthetic Health Data
Research from Smith Looks at Progress and Prospects with Large Language Models and Synthetic Health Data

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Why AI Can’t Yet Crack the Code of RNA and DNA Folding

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Vishkin Wins ACM Parallel Computing Award
Vishkin Wins ACM Parallel Computing Award

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AI for Customer Journeys: A Transformer Approach
AI for Customer Journeys: A Transformer Approach

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UMD College of Education Professor Receives Leona Tyler Award for Lifetime Achievement in Counseling Psychology | UMD College of Education
College of Education Professor Dennis Kivlighan Receives Leona Tyler Award for Lifetime Achievement in Counseling Psychology 

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Global Precipitation Summary for June 2025 - ESSIC
Global Precipitation Summary for June 2025 

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New Insights Into Tropical Forest Recovery Earn GEOG Graduate National Ecology Award
New Insights Into Tropical Forest Recovery Earn GEOG Graduate National Ecology Award

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Levin and Rye Win 2025 Caspar Bowden Privacy Award
Levin and Rye Win 2025 Caspar Bowden Privacy Award

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A visit to where President Franklin D. Roosevelt made the historic decision to seek a third term
Robert Chiles Quoted in A Visit to Where President Franklin D. Roosevelt Made the Historic Decision To Seek a Third Term

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Maryland officials don't know how much the state spends on nonprofits
Thomas Luke Spreen Quoted in Maryland Officials Don’t Know How Much the State Spends on Nonprofits

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David Kirsch Quoted in How the U.S. Lost Its Lead in Electric Vehicles and Other Clean Energy Inventions

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Earth's Core Appears To Be Leaking Up and Out of Earth's Surface | Quanta Magazine
Vedran Lekić Quoted in Earth's Core Appears To Be Leaking Up and Out of Earth's Surface

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14 Harmful Myths About Mosquitoes
Raymond St. Leger Quoted in Fourteen Harmful Myths About Mosquitoes

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'AI may appear magical today, but it is grounded in decades of evolving logic'
Balaji Padmanabhan Quoted in AI May Appear Magical Today, but It Is Grounded in Decades of Evolving Logic

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Some of you are bad friends, and that's why you're lonely | CNN
Marisa Franco Quoted in Some of You Are Bad Friends, and That’s Why You’re Lonely

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Weather sparks firefly mania, but will it last?
Michael Raupp Quoted in Weather Sparks Firefly Mania, but Will It Last?

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Study: Generative AI results depend on user prompts as much as models | MIT Sloan
Eaman Jahani Quoted in Generative AI Results Depend on User Prompts As Much as Models

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For 30 Years, We Got Dinosaur Sounds All Wrong Because of Jurassic Park-Scientists Say It Was All Completely Wrong
Thomas Holtz Quoted in For 30 Years, We Got Dinosaur Sounds All Wrong Because of Jurassic Park-Scientists Say It Was All Completely Wrong

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Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway sold another $3 billion of stocks as investor enters home stretch as CEO
David Kass Quoted in Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Sold Another $3 Billion of Stocks As Investor Enters Home Stretch as CEO

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Voting rights for 16- and 17-year-olds: Could this trend become the norm?
Sam Novey Quoted in More 16- and 17-Year-Olds Are Gaining the Right To Vote. Could This Become the Norm?

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Better Water Quality Through Smarter Gardening
August 19, 2025: Better Water Quality Through Smarter Gardening

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Agronomic Drone School
August 21, 2025: Agronomic Drone School

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The Community THRIVES Lab Symposium
August 22, 2025: The Community THRIVES Lab Symposium

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September 4, 2025: AI in Financial Services

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