Student, company founder, and employee: computer science major Christian Johnson does it all.

Willie May rises from the segregated South through the ranks of the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

Research experiences abroad helps undergraduate students become better thinkers, innovators and problem solvers.

Professor Konstantina Trivisa mentors female faculty members in science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields.

Interdisciplinary centers and institute at UMD foster collaboration with federal agencies and academia on environmental security issues.

These Maryland alumni are working to protect our climate and natural resources.

Drought. Floods. Receding polar ice and coastal dead zones. UMD researchers are taking the lead on threats to environmental security.

I want to learn about other cultures and perspectives, and the Fulbright scholarship gives me this opportunity.

UMD is one of five institutions with all four nominees named scholars: sophomore Yousuf Khan and juniors Adam Berger, Katherine Cordwell and Mark Moretto.

Prestigious NSF fellowships recognize outstanding graduate students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields.