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Andrew Guo connect with surrounding communities and to invite other people to participate in physics and astronomy research through the graduate student organization called Graduate Resources for Advancing Diversity with Maryland Astronomy and Physics (GRAD-MAP).

The College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences will host 39 events.

This discovery indicates that water ice might still exist at shallow depths at low latitudes on Mars, bringing researchers closer to understanding how the planet was and still may be habitable.

Ten unique CMNS classes will help undergraduates fulfill general education credits.

Senior Maxwell Myers conquers the challenges of track and computer science and clinches a career opportunity at Microsoft.

Assistant Professor and JQI Fellow Nathan Schine's research program manipulates the interactions between atoms and photons—the particles that make up light—in novel, well-controlled ways in order to simulate other, harder-to-probe quantum phenomena.

UMD Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics Professor Anne Simon and her startup Silvec Biologics work to unravel the unsolved mystery of a lethal plant disease.

Najib El-Sayed is leading a team that is using powerful sequencing tools to combat the Leishmania parasite.

A UMD-led study offers new insight into the extraterrestrial origins of our lakes, rivers and oceans.

The DAWN tools will enable producers and specialists to improve water use and nutrient management in agricultural operations.

A new University of Maryland and NASA study confirms that major droughts and pluvials – periods of excessive precipitation and water storage on land – have indeed been occurring more often.

UMD geologists studying the Bakken Shale Formation discovered a critical kill mechanism behind a series of extinctions some 350 million years ago.