UMD Science 2016 Year in Review
It was an amazing year for students, faculty members and science at the University of Maryland's College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences! Below are some of our most-read stories from 2016:
UMD Biologists First to Observe Direct Inheritance of Gene-silencing RNA
New Study Zeros in on Plate Tectonics' Start Date
Gravitational Waves Detected 100 Years After Einstein's Prediction
Four UMD Students Named 2016 Goldwater Scholars
Nations Ranked on Their Vulnerability to Cyberattacks
Giant "Great Valley" Found on Mercury
UMD Biological Sciences Senior Aaron Solomon Named 2017 Marshall Scholar
Chemistry and Biochemistry's Efrain Rodriguez Receives National Science Foundation CAREER Award
New Model Explains the Moon's Weird Orbit
Scientists Expect to Calculate Amount of Fuel Inside Earth by 2025
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The College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences at the University of Maryland educates more than 7,000 future scientific leaders in its undergraduate and graduate programs each year. The college’s 10 departments and more than a dozen interdisciplinary research centers foster scientific discovery with annual sponsored research funding exceeding $150 million.