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Physics Professor Wolfgang Losert Named College's Interim Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and Graduate Education

Losert's new position will be in addition to his current role as the college's associate dean for research.

August 11, 2015
"Terpaholics" Can’t Stop Giving

Philip Schneider (B.S. '79, biochemistry) and his wife Joyce (B.A. '79, criminology) established a TerpStart scholarship for first-generation college students with financial need who enroll in CMNS.

August 10, 2015
UMD Team to Teach Climate Change to High School Students

$105,000 seed grant awarded by the Maryland Council on the Environment to multidisciplinary UMD team.

August 5, 2015
Math Whiz Wins Wall Street

Ali Hirsa (M.A. '97, Ph.D. '98, applied mathematics) is managing partner at Sauma Capital and an adjunct professor at Columbia University.

August 4, 2015
A Family Affair: Gates Twins Graduate and Move on to Doctoral Studies

Delilah Gates (B.S. '15, physics and mathematics) and Sylvester Gates III (B.S. '15, biological sciences) graduated in May with their father, a UMD physics professor, giving the commencement speech.

July 29, 2015
A New Litmus Test for Chaos?

The concept of "expansion entropy" could become a simple tool to identify chaos in a wide range of systems.

July 27, 2015
Black Holes: Supermassive Guardians of the Galaxies

UMD astronomers are dedicated to finding and demystifying supermassive black holes, bringing us closer to understanding the origin of the universe and the nature of matter itself.

July 27, 2015
Agents of Exploration
July 24, 2015
#Outwork On and Off the Court

Varun Ram (B.S. '15, biological sciences) excelled on and off the basketball court.

July 24, 2015
Deep Time, Deep Foundations: Ann Wylie’s Years at Maryland Leave a Lasting Mark

The first woman faculty member in the Department of Geology, Ann Wylie has seen a lot of changes at UMD, and she has been instrumental in helping many of the changes take place.

July 24, 2015
Meghan Murphy (B.S. '15, Biological Sciences) Awarded Princeton in Africa Fellowship

Murphy will spend a year in Botswana teaching science at the Maru-a-Pula School.

July 24, 2015