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Gravitational Waves

The long road to the detection of gravitational waves began at the University of Maryland and has wound through College Park ever since.

September 29, 2016
Unplanned Paths Lead Back to Maryland

Alumni join forces to create new endowed life sciences chair.

September 29, 2016
Maryland Center for Women in Computing to Host Inaugural Diversity in Computing Summit

Topics ranging from retaining high-tech women in the workplace to professional development and creating a unique personal brand will be discussed at the one-day summit set for Nov. 7, 2016, at the University of Maryland.

September 28, 2016
UMD Scientists Help Develop New Drought Early Warning Tool

UMD’s Christopher Hain and colleagues played a key role in transitioning the product from the research phase to NOAA operations.

September 27, 2016
UMD's Timothy Koeth Helps Undergrads Build Particle Accelerators - The Washington Post
UMD students hope to construct the largest cyclotron ever built by undergraduates, which will allow them to conduct experiments in nuclear physics.
September 25, 2016
UMD Professors & Alumnus Named 2016 Thomson Reuters Citation Laureates

Yorke, Ott, Grebogi named top contenders for Nobel Prize in physics for developing method to control chaos.

September 23, 2016
High Number of Pesticides Within Colonies Linked to Honey Bee Deaths

Some compounds commonly regarded as “bee-safe” could be a major contributor to honey bee colony losses in North America.

September 14, 2016
Scientists Expect to Calculate Amount of Fuel Inside Earth by 2025

With three new detectors coming online in the next several years, scientists are confident they will collect enough geoneutrino data to measure Earth’s fuel level.

September 8, 2016
UMD Physicists Discover “Smoke Rings” Made of Laser Light

3D ring structures made by high-intensity lasers could aid the design of powerful microscopes and more efficient telecommunication lines.

September 8, 2016
UMD Researchers Discover a Way That Animals Keep Their Cells Identical

Unusual collaboration between biologists and linguists yields insights into some cancers and age-related diseases.

July 25, 2016
Physics Professor S. James Gates Jr. Mentors Undergraduates in Annual Summer Research Program

For the past 17 years, undergraduates from across the country have explored topics and published papers in theoretical physics.

July 20, 2016
Scott Wolpert Reappointed as Chair of UMD Department of Mathematics

Wolpert began his first term as department chair in 2013.

July 6, 2016