Researchers in our college are using machine learning for applications that touch many aspects of our lives—from weather prediction and health care to transportation, finance and wildlife conservation.

The JQI fellow is one of 163 APS members to join the select group this year.

In this episode of Relatively Certain, Dina Genkina sits down with JQI Adjunct Fellow Marianna Safronova, a physics professor at the University of Delaware, and JQI Fellow Charles Clark, an adjunct professor of physics at UMD and a fellow of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, to talk about how precision measurements with atoms might shed some light on matter that’s otherwise dark.

The generous gift from Charles Husar (B.S. '71) will provide fellowships and summer research and travel awards.

Scott Moroch built his own nuclear fusion reactor in high school.

The particle astrophysicist describes his five decades at UMD as an Indiana Jones-style adventure.

A native of Iran, Zohreh Davoudi started down the path of becoming a theoretical physicist at an early age.

University of Maryland alumna and her laboratory team take on the challenges of COVID-19.

University of Maryland astronomer is part of a team selected by NASA to design a mission for the first global view of space weather.

UMD also ranks 9th in cybersecurity and 16th in artificial intelligence and data analytics/science.