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The University of Maryland is launching a program called Terrapin Teachers to increase the number of high-quality secondary science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) teachers. 

Simulated blindness gives adult mice sharper hearing. Image: Emily Petrus and Amal Isaiah

"Fantastic discovery" unveiled at American Astronomical Society meeting. Illustration: Loretta Kuo

Scientists link coast’s transformation to change in extreme weather pattern

Key UMD role grew from a history of studying the elusive neutrino

With four siblings in college, senior Ubie Williams works nights 40 hours a week to pay for school. Give to UMD's scholarship funds to help students like Ubie succeed.

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.

The Physical Sciences Complex labs offer “the best space available for quantum measurement.”

Katharine Gebbie advocated for JQI and new facility.

15 years in the making, the college’s dreams and aspirations for a state-of-the-art research facility have become a reality.

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

Ice Cube in Antarctica successfully tracks high-energy cosmic neutrinos. Photo: Felipe Pedreros, Ice Cube/NSF