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

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

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

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

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

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

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

UMD physicists design self-cloaking material with potential applications in telecommunications and next-generation computing.

Shneiderman elected for inventions in human-computer interaction and information visualization.

University of Maryland physicists helped develop and implement the calibration program that led to improvement.

UMD geologists co-author first studies to explain an observed physical transition hundreds of miles below Earth’s surface.