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Design Innovations Foster Research Breakthroughs
The Physical Sciences Complex was planned and designed to provide a welcoming environment for all CMNS students and faculty, with labs that can accommodate the most sensitive scientific experiments.
New Complex Helps Attract Nation's Top Physicists to JQI
The Physical Sciences Complex labs offer “the best space available for quantum measurement.”
PSC Strengthens NIST Partnership - Katharine Gebbie Advocated for JQI and New Facility
Katharine Gebbie advocated for JQI and new facility.
Great Science Happens Here - Physical Sciences Complex Opens Its Doors
15 years in the making, the college’s dreams and aspirations for a state-of-the-art research facility have become a reality.
Evolution, Civil War history meet in fossil with tragic past
Union Army forced freed slaves to dig canal where 120 million-year-old fossil - perhaps N. America's oldest flowering plant - was found. Photo: Nathan Jud
“The era of neutrino astronomy has begun”
Ice Cube in Antarctica successfully tracks high-energy cosmic neutrinos. Photo: Felipe Pedreros, Ice Cube/NSF
"Diabetic flies" can speed up disease-fighting research
Fruit flies process insulin much like people do, UMD study finds
In Nepal, villagers’ land uses help people and tigers
Humans and critically endangered tigers can coexist, SESYNC researcher finds.
UMD Higgs Hunters Celebrate Nobel Prize in Physics
Scientists had a crucial role in experiments proving the Nobel-winning theory of the early universe.
UMD alumna Ana Maria Rey wins MacArthur Foundation "genius grant"
The UMD physics PhD recipient was honored for quantum computing work. Photo courtesy of the MacArthur Foundation.
UMD-Led Deep Impact Ends, Leaves Bright Comet Tale
Scientific team’s findings from spacecraft data transformed understanding of comets
Seeking out the hidden pathways of an essential sense
UMD research shows how the brain controls odor processing. Photo: Robert K. Maurer