Charge Instability Detected Across All Types of Copper-based Superconductors

Findings may help researchers synthesize materials that can superconduct at room temperature.

Findings may help researchers synthesize materials that can superconduct at room temperature

Super

- 14 January 2015
Robots Learn to Use Kitchen Tools by Watching YouTube Videos

Autonomous robots can learn and perform complex actions via observation.

Autonomous robots can learn and perform complex actions via observation

Imagine having a personal

- 12 January 2015
Algae Use Same Molecular Machinery as Land Plants to Respond to a Plant Hormone

Common genes remain intact after 450 million years of evolution.

Land-based plants—including the fruits and vegetables in your kitchen—produce and respond to hormones in order to sur

- 7 January 2015
College Researcher, Three Alumnae Named Fellows of the American Physical Society

Karen Byrum, Elizabeth Hays, Ana Maria Rey and Peter Yoon were elected APS fellows for their exceptional contributions to the physics enterprise.

(l-r) Karen Byrum, Elizabeth Hays, Ana Maria Rey, Peter Yoon

- 5 January 2015
Saving Energy with 'Personal HVAC Systems'

UMD Receives $5.5 million from ARPA-E for energy efficiency research projects, including one to develop a thermally responsive fabric.

Two research teams from the University of Maryland are launching new federally-funded research projects designed to c

- 4 January 2015
2014 Year in Review

Revisit some of the college's top stories from 2014.

A record-setting donation, a rare intermediate black hole, a new Rhodes Scholar, and a race to build the world's firs

- 23 December 2014
Study Explains Ancient Animal Fossilization

UMD geologist Alan Kaufman says study may shed light on the lifestyles of the most ancient animals, and of the chemistry of the oceans where they thrived.

The mountains of the Ningqiang area, in the southern Shaanxi province

- 19 December 2014
Theory Details How ‘Hot’ Monomers Affect Thin-film Formation

UMD, Rice University model offers better control for creation of thin-film electronics .

Like a baseball player sliding into third, a hot monomer skids in a straight line along a cold surface until it’s saf

- 18 December 2014
Lockheed Martin's Ray O. Johnson to Speak at College's Winter Commencement

College commencement will be held on Sunday, Dec. 21, 2014 at 6 p.m. in the Cole Student Activities Building.

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- 15 December 2014
Physics' Ellen Williams Confirmed as Head of ARPA-E

President Obama nominated Ellen Williams to direct ARPA-E, which was launched in 2009 to advance high-potential, high-impact energy technologies that are too early in development for private-sector investment.

Distinguished University Professor

- 11 December 2014
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