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UMD Receives $425,000 for Scholarships and STEM Outreach from AFCEA Bethesda
The funding supports 40 undergraduate scholarships in engineering and 20 in computer science at UMD over the next five years and the Computer Science Connect program.
Geology’s Vedran Lekic Receives Packard Fellowship
The fellowship is one of 18 awarded this year nationwide and bestows unrestricted funds of $875,000 over a five-year period to the most promising early-career scientists and engineers.
Sita created Precision Polyolefins to expand the range of advanced performance materials and specialty chemicals produced by feedstocks derived from the oil and gas industries.
Every AlgoRiThm has ART in it: Treemap Art Project Exhibition by Ben Shneiderman
Ben Shneiderman’s art will be featured in an exhibition at the National Academies Keck Center that opens on Oct. 16.
College Welcomes 11 New Faculty Members This Fall
New faculty members join five departments and three institutes and centers.
UMD Receives Three-Year Award to Increase Computer Science Student Diversity
Award will support UMD initiatives aimed at attracting women and underrepresented minorities to computing.
UMD and NIH Researchers Receive $1.7M BRAIN Initiative Award
This research will help identify the precise interactions between millions of nerve cells and alterations in these interactions that may be responsible for brain disorders.
UMD crowdfunding campaign supports early warning systems for beekeeper hives.
Major Milestone in the Search for Water on Distant Planets
UMD astronomers find water vapor on the smallest planet yet.
College Receives $38M for New Computer Science Building, Scholarships, Endowed Professorships
The Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Innovation will expand research in virtual and augmented reality, computer vision, and immersive science.
U.S. Cityscapes Show Consistent Patterns of “Urban Evolution”
Urban waters record the salt in our food, cement in our sidewalks, UMD scientist says
Study Puts Some Mussels into Bay Restoration
Study shows that mussels that typically colonize a restored oyster reef can more than double its overall filtration capacity.