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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
Steve Rolston Named Chair of UMD Department of Physics

Rolston joined UMD in 2003 and is also co-director and a fellow of the Joint Quantum Institute.

July 5, 2016
Physics Professor Wolfgang Losert Named College's Associate Dean for Research, Faculty Affairs and Graduate Education

Losert has been serving in the role as interim associate dean.

July 4, 2016
Pierre-Emmanuel Jabin Named Interim Director of the UMD Center for Scientific Computation and Mathematical Modeling

Jabin has served as associate director of CSCAMM since 2014.

June 30, 2016
Dormant Black Hole Eats Star, Becomes X-ray Flashlight

UMD astronomers catch X-ray echoes of a tidal disruption event for the first time.

June 21, 2016
Gravitational Waves Detected from Second Pair of Colliding Black Holes

University of Maryland physicists contribute to identification of second gravitational wave event using data from Advanced LIGO detectors.

June 14, 2016
Three UMD Astronomy Graduate Students Receive NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowships

The fellowship program supports continued training of a highly qualified workforce in disciplines needed to achieve NASA’s scientific goals.

June 8, 2016
Tiny Diamonds Could Enable Huge Advances in Nanotechnology

UMD researchers develop a new method for pairing nanoscale diamonds with other nanomaterials.

June 7, 2016