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UMD’s Newest Mars Rover Is Out of This World

UMD Loop hopes to celebrate its 10th anniversary with a podium finish in an international rover competition.

March 2, 2026
From COVID-19 to ChatGPT: A Statistician's Quest to Improve Survey Statistics

Mathematics graduate student Aditi Sen's research refines survey analysis when few people respond—with sweeping applications. 

February 27, 2026
AIM Welcomes Five Distinguished Artificial Intelligence Scholars

Ilaria Canavotto, Yu Gan, Ritwik Gupta, Yulin Hswen and Swati Srivastava will join the UMD faculty.

February 27, 2026
UMD’s Math-Musician Chases His Next ‘Beautiful Idea’

Mathematics Assistant Professor Srivatsav Kunnawalkam Elayavalli discusses the surprising link between math, music and paragliding.

February 26, 2026
$5.1M in NIH Awards Help UMD Researchers Take On a Genomic Data Deluge

The team is building open-source software to better piece together complex genetic data while also conducting the first comprehensive review of how the quality of data in public biological databases impacts the accuracy of computational analyses.

February 25, 2026
Air Force Veteran Rekindles His Passion for Science at UMD

Morgan Smith (B.S. ’25, physics) merged his interests in public service and science at Maryland and secured a job at NASA after graduating in December.

February 23, 2026
Inspired by Innovation

In the latest chapter of his 35-plus-year career in pharma, Thomas Lake (B.S. ’88, biological sciences) is advancing next-generation biotechnology that aims to take the needle out of vaccinations.

February 23, 2026
NIH Awards $12.5M for Alzheimer’s Researchers to Use AI to Scour Biobank Data

UMD computer scientist Heng Huang leads the project’s artificial intelligence and machine learning efforts and plans to build a genomic language model for Alzheimer’s that will drive drug discovery for the disease.

 

February 20, 2026
New UMD Startup Builds the ‘Picks and Shovels’ for the RNA Revolution

Emergente’s patented RNAnneal platform predicts shapeshifting RNA structures, addressing a foundational bottleneck across the therapeutics, agriculture and biotechnology manufacturing industries.

February 19, 2026
Shared Pain, Shared Relief

A new University of Maryland-led study reveals that observing others in pain, even digital avatars, can affect how we feel pain ourselves.

February 18, 2026
UMD Senior Helps Build the Hit Video Game Platform, Roblox

After a rewarding summer internship in 2025, mathematics major Arianna Maxwell will return to Roblox as a full-time employee in June.

February 16, 2026
UMD Department of Geology Announces New Name

The Department of Geological, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences better reflects the unit’s interdisciplinary nature.

February 16, 2026