The scientists of the Climate Resilience Network, funded by UMD’s Grand Challenges Grants Program, work with state and federal agencies to protect Marylanders and their livelihoods.

PropensityBench measures a model’s propensity to choose high-risk actions when given simulated access to them, whether that means overriding an industrial safety warning or hacking a competitor’s network.

Inside UMD's Plant Diagnostics Lab, botanical medical mysteries meet scientific detective work

Jinyi “Cornelia” Zhu came to Maryland for the weather. She leaves with a B.S. in public health science, a Ph.D. in biological sciences, and gratitude for the freshman science program that started it all.

If successful, the research could lead to therapeutics that wipe out asthma, COPD and even COVID. 

Since 2014, 174 current students and recent alums from CMNS have been awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowships. 

The space is an “otherworldly gift,” providing researchers with expertise and instrumentation to study biologically relevant molecules.

UMD researchers find evidence that deep pockets of primordial material remained undisturbed within Earth’s mantle for billions of years.

As an investigator at the American Museum of Natural History, UMD alum Jessica Goodheart (Ph.D. ’17, biological sciences) seeks to solve how sea slugs steal to survive.

Biological sciences doctoral student Stephanie Chia uses informatics to determine why some animal forms fail to arise.