NASA’s newly renamed Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory honors founding principal investigator of versatile satellite mission, who died in 2017.

UMD astronomers observe the most drastic slowing of a comet's rate of spin ever measured, using NASA’s newly renamed Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory.

New UMD-led research highlights the need for better regulation of road salt, fertilizers and other salty compounds.

UMD-led study finds that worms that fertilize themselves lost one-fourth of their genome, including genes that make sperm competitive.

Kiser (B.S. ’89, mathematics) is a managing director and chief information officer at The Carlyle Group. Anisetti is graduating with a bachelor’s degree in biological sciences.

An expert in virtual reality, computer graphics and robotics, Lin joins UMD from the University of Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Christopher Bambic, William O’Connor and Tiffany Wang honored as three of the university’s most successful seniors.

$33,355 was raised for the Mark Sobel Jr. Scholarship Fund through Launch UMD.

The new fellows come from the physics and astronomy departments.