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UMD-led Team Advances in SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition

Twenty-two student teams will head to California this summer to test their design prototypes on the world’s first Hyperloop Test Track during Competition Weekend.

February 3, 2016
Physics’ Jay Deep Sau Receives National Science Foundation CAREER Award

Sau will use the award to build a research program focused on predicting phenomena that could help pave the way for topological quantum computation.

February 3, 2016
Two from College Named 2015 Highly Cited Researchers

Sankar Das Sarma and Jeremy Selengut included in Thomson Reuters' list again this year.

January 28, 2016
New Study Zeros in on Plate Tectonics’ Start Date

Analysis of trace elements places the onset of plate tectonics about 3 billion years ago.

January 21, 2016
Warmer Oceans Could Produce More Powerful Superstorms

Simulations of Hurricane Sandy with warmer ocean temperatures resulted in storms more than twice as destructive.

January 19, 2016
Two UMD Professors Named 2016-2017 Jefferson Science Fellows

Karen Lips and Sumant Nigam will each spend a year at the State Department or USAID.

January 15, 2016
UMD Students Head to SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition Design Weekend

UMD-led team aims to build cutting edge prototype for the next generation of transportation.

January 14, 2016
Fires Burning in Africa and Asia Cause High Ozone in Tropical Pacific

Study indicates “biomass burning” may play larger role in climate change than previously realized.

January 13, 2016
Chemistry and Biochemistry’s Efrain Rodriguez Receives National Science Foundation CAREER Award

Rodriguez will use the award to develop a new class of materials with functional magnetic and electronic properties

January 7, 2016
College Alumni to Receive National Medal of Science and National Medal of Technology and Innovation

Mathematics alumnus Simon Levin and physics alumnus Robert Fischell will receive medals at White House ceremony in early 2016.

January 4, 2016
UMD Science 2015 Year in Review

Check out some of our most-read research stories from 2015.

December 23, 2015
Two College Alumni Named Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors

Robert Fischell (M.S. '53, physics) and Tobin Marks (B.S. '66, chemistry) receive honor.

December 22, 2015