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New Research Uses Curiosity Rover to Measure Gravity on Mars

UMD geologist Nicholas Schmerr and collaborators repurposed data from Mars rover’s navigational instruments to learn about the geologic history of Gale Crater and Mount Sharp.

January 31, 2019
Doron Levy Named Interim Chair of UMD Department of Mathematics

Leader in the mathematics community will be stepping in for the 2019-2020 academic year.

January 30, 2019
A Data Desert in the Arctic and Subarctic Forests Is Hindering Efforts to Study how Wildlife is Adapting to Climate Change

Scientists make an urgent plea for better snow data to understand how changing snowscapes are affecting the animals that live in high Northern latitudes.

January 29, 2019
Machine Learning Helps Target Cancer Patients for Immunotherapy

Computer scientists identified three categories of data needed to more accurately predict cancer patients’ immune response to therapy and reduce costly, unnecessary treatments.

January 28, 2019
Computer Science's John Dickerson Receives NSF CAREER Award to Improve Market Systems Using Artificial Intelligence

The funding supports efforts by Dickerson to develop methods to improve existing market systems and enable new markets.

January 24, 2019
MedStar Washington Hospital Center's Jeffrey Shupp (B.S. '01, Biological Sciences) Helps Save Burn Patient

Shupp is director of the Burn Center at MedStar Washington (Story by Center Scope.)

January 16, 2019
Honey Bee Parasites Feed on Fatty Organs, Not Blood

New UMD-led research upends long-standing assumptions about the feeding habits of varroa mites, a primary threat to honey bees worldwide.

January 14, 2019
Astronomers Map ‘Light Echoes’ of Newly Discovered Black Hole

Team led by UMD postdoctoral fellow reveals the environment around a relatively small black hole in unprecedented detail.

January 9, 2019
2019 Summer Science Camps at UMD for K-12 Students

The College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences offers summer camps in entomology, physics, computer science, biomedical science and more.

January 9, 2019
UMD Files Patents on Compounds to Treat and Prevent Gonorrhea

Wenxia Song and her collaborators identified two molecules that inhibit gonorrhea infection in a laboratory tissue model.

January 7, 2019
Meet Science Terp Laila Abujuma: Nourishing the Campus and Beyond

A Banneker/Key Scholar and member of the Integrated Life Sciences program in the Honors College, Abujama hopes to study medicine after graduation.

January 3, 2019
Ellen D. Williams and Dylan Taylor to Speak at College’s December 2018 Commencement Ceremony

Williams is a Distinguished University Professor at UMD and Taylor will graduate with a bachelor's degree in biological sciences.

December 19, 2018