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CMNS Spring 2022 Commencement Speakers Announced

CMNS Spring 2022 Commencement Speakers Announced

Nancy Kopp will be the keynote speaker; Kianté Brantley, Connor Lu and Alythia Vo were selected as student speakers.

Where Science Meets Social Justice

Where Science Meets Social Justice

Graduating biological sciences major Jackie Liu sets her sights on Washington, D.C.

Bringing Health Care’s Vision of Tomorrow Into Focus

Bringing Health Care’s Vision of Tomorrow Into Focus

UMD leads multi-institutional effort to advance medical innovations, build regulatory framework for extended reality

Rooted in Research: Graduating Senior Prepares for Medical School

Rooted in Research: Graduating Senior Prepares for Medical School

Biological sciences major Debbie Adam led efforts to raise kidney disease awareness in the community.

Biological Sciences Ph.D. Student Nick Bezio’s Research is an Art and a Science

Biological Sciences Ph.D. Student Nick Bezio’s Research is an Art and a Science

Bezio finds beauty and allure in jellyfish and comb jellies.

Two Distinguished University Professors in the College Elected to National Academy of Sciences

Two Distinguished University Professors in the College Elected to National Academy of Sciences

Physics’ Edward Ott and Geology’s Richard Walker joined the 120-member class.

Bilayer Graphene Inspires Two-Universe Cosmological Model

Bilayer Graphene Inspires Two-Universe Cosmological Model

In a new paper in Physical Review Research, JQI Fellow Victor Galitski and JQI graduate student Alireza Parhizkar have explored the imaginative possibility that our reality is only one-half of a pair of interacting worlds.

Taking Science—and Climate Change Research—to New Heights

Taking Science—and Climate Change Research—to New Heights

UMD Alum Katherine Calvin is on a mission at NASA.

UMD Geologist Richard Walker Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

UMD Geologist Richard Walker Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Walker was recognized for discoveries on the origin and evolution of early solar system materials and the geochemical evolution of the Earth.

Math Alum Returns to UMD, Earns Her Master’s in Data Science and Analytics

Math Alum Returns to UMD, Earns Her Master’s in Data Science and Analytics

Not long after Casey Tarman (B.S. ’19, mathematics; M.P.S. ’21, data science and analytics) graduated with her bachelor’s degree from the University of Maryland and landed a job as a data scientist with the Department of Defense, she decided the time was right to get her master’s degree.

Supernova Ph.D. Student Selected for NASA Pathways

Supernova Ph.D. Student Selected for NASA Pathways

UMD astronomy student Isiah Holt studies the composition of neutron stars

Sophomore Jonah Pereyra Awarded NOAA Hollings Scholarship

Sophomore Jonah Pereyra Awarded NOAA Hollings Scholarship

He is one of six UMD students to receive the scholarship this year.