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UMD’s Antonio Busalacchi Named Co-Chair of NRC’s Decadal Survey for Earth Observations

Committee will develop priorities and support observation activities for NASA, NOAA and USGS.

August 31, 2015
Evidence Suggests Subatomic Particles Could Defy the Standard Model

Large Hadron Collider team finds hints of leptons acting out against time-tested predictions.

August 26, 2015
UMD-led Study Identifies the Off Switch for Biofilm Formation

New discovery could help prevent the formation of infectious bacterial films on hospital equipment.

August 24, 2015
New Internet Routing Method Allows Users to Avoid Sending Data Through Undesired Geographic Regions

The new system offers advantages over existing systems: it is immediately deployable and does not require knowledge of—or modifications to—the Internet’s routing hardware or policies.

August 18, 2015
1,800 Years of Global Ocean Cooling Halted by Global Warming

Comprehensive analysis of ocean surface temperature data shows a cooling trend preceding the Industrial Revolution.

August 17, 2015
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