UMD Leads MURI to Build Smarter Artificial Intelligence

The federally funded research program aims to harness astrocytes—one of the brain’s most overlooked cell types—to create next-generation artificial intelligence systems.

T32 Training Grant Renewed for UMD's Center for Comparative and Evolutionary Biology of Hearing

The grant from the National Institute of Health’s National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders has supported numerous pre- and post-doctoral students over the past 32 years.

UMD Computer Science Major Jenny Wang Earns Prestigious NOAA Hollings Scholarship

A high school internship with NOAA sparked Wang's passion for using code to understand climate. 

Meet Program Manager Jessica Sadler

Sadler, who manages the Applied Mathematics & Statistics, and Scientific Computation (AMSC) graduate program, received a Dean’s Outstanding Employee Award this year. 

UMD Senior’s Children’s Book Honors her Sister with Autism

Seti Ouelega’s close bond with her sister, Meghan, inspired her to study neuroscience and write a children’s book to spread autism awareness.

UMD's Quantitative Biology Initiative Announces Inaugural Postdoctoral Fellow Cohort

Spencer Hobson-Gutierrez, Julie Pourtois and James Richardson will work with QBI faculty, staff and students for three years to address critical issues in the life sciences using quantitative approaches.

Biological Sciences Major
Data Science and Disability Studies Minors
San Jose, CA
Concocting Chemicals to Fight Drug Overdose

When chemistry Ph.D. candidate Manny Bazan-Bergamino isn’t playing his clarinet, you can find him developing “molecular containers” that flush drugs out of the body.

A Computational Mind Drives a Scientist to the Bioinformatics of Immunity

Nicholas Rachmaninoff (Ph.D. ’23, biological sciences) found his passion in the data-driven analysis of the immune system, using math and code to understand how the body fights disease.

Computer Science Major
Ashburn, VA
Technology Internship Program at M&T Bank
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