Taylor will use the $825,000 award to further develop new materials that selectively capture valuable metals in water, enabling a recovery process that could make battery manufacturing more sustainable.

Backed by a National Science Foundation grant of $2 million, a team of UMD researchers aims to create a portable device capable of identifying odors in the environment.

UMD president pitches vision of future enhanced by UMD-led research in science and technology.

As co-president of the UMD Physics Undergraduate Committee and a promising researcher, junior Sarah Waldych works to make physics fun for everyone.

Computer Science Professor Hal Daumé III, who heads a new $20M NSF-backed institute, says systems should support societal good.

The department also ranks in the top 10 among the country’s public universities in three computer science specialties. 

Liang was selected for innovative, pioneering leadership in developing regional modeling capabilities for understanding climate change impacts on a variety of sectors.

Computer science major Neil Sorkin teamed up with Assistant Professor Nirupam Roy to create a better way to locate people who need help after natural disasters.

He will receive the American Physical Society’s 2023 James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics for “pioneering contributions in the theory of magnetized plasma stability, RF, current drive, laser-plasma interactions, and charged particle beam dynamics.”