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Konstantina Trivisa to Continue as Director of UMD’s Institute for Physical Science and Technology

She served as IPST director for the past year and as associate director from 2014 to 2020.

June 17, 2021
Match Matters: The Right Combination of Parents Can Turn A Gene Off Indefinitely

UMD scientists discover that mating can cause epigenetic changes in nematode worms that last for 300 generations.

June 16, 2021
Rising Greenhouse Gases Pose Continued Threat to Arctic Ozone Layer

New study shows climate change is increasing ozone depletion over the Arctic.

June 16, 2021
Quantum Competing

A new industry hub founded on microscopic atoms could generate massive returns for the D.C. region.

June 16, 2021
Five Biological Sciences Majors Receive University Medal Honors

Sherry Fan was named University Medalist, and Jackson Devadas, Meron Haile, Kyeisha Laurence and Veeraj Shah were named University Medalist Finalists.

June 7, 2021
Triple Galaxy Merger Sends Mixed Signals

UMD astronomer finds three merging galaxies that offer insights into black hole mergers and galaxy formation.

June 7, 2021
Senior Linden Yuan Awarded Competitive Defense Fellowship

Yuan will take the fellowship to the University of Illinois, where he will pursue a Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering.

June 4, 2021
Leena Pade is a Cosmos Scholar with Chemistry in Her Blood

How this Ph.D. student went from visiting her father at work to working in his industry.

June 2, 2021
For Theoretical Chemist Pratyush Tiwary, It’s All About Perspective

The assistant professor balances his life of high-level theory with down-to-Earth human connections.

May 25, 2021
UMD Grad Students to Showcase Their Insect Knowledge at National Entomology Games

Terp team placed second in the region and earned a spot at the national competition this fall.

May 24, 2021
JQI Researchers Generate Tunable Twin Particles of Light

JQI researchers and their colleagues describe a new way to make entangled twin particles of light and to tune their properties using a method conveniently housed on a chip, a potential boon for quantum technologies that require a reliable source of well-tailored photon pairs.

May 21, 2021
The Secrets Atoms Hold, Part 2: Gravity

In this episode of Relatively Certain, JQI Adjunct Fellow Marianna Safronova and JQI Fellow Charles Clark return to discuss the limits of our understanding of gravity, and how new experiments with atom interferometers may be the key to not only a higher-precision understanding of gravity but also possible new physics.

May 19, 2021