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UMD-led Team Maps Gas Emissions from Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
Maps of gas emissions reveal surprising physical and chemical processes never before seen up close.
13 Biology and Chemistry Graduate Students to Receive Department of Education Fellowships
Chemistry receives continuation grant and Biology receives grant for first time.
Three UMD Graduate Students Receive NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowships
Margaret Marvin, Margaret McAdam and David New received the three-year awards.
UMD Discovery Could Enable Portable Particle Accelerators
Innovation could hold the key to ultra-compact machines useful for materials science and medical imaging.
Richard Walker Named Chair of Geology at the University of Maryland
Walker has been a faculty member in the department for 25 years.
Two UMD Faculty Members and Eight Alumni Elected 2015 Fellows of the American Physical Society
Gretchen Campbell and Dave Thirumalai recognized by APS for their contributions.
Researchers Find Vulnerabilities in Use of Certificates for Web Security
Study finds website admins not revoking compromised certificates, browsers not checking certificate revocation status.
UMD Students Win Gold Medal Again at International Genetically Engineered Machine Competition
Terps win for creating an alternative technique for plasmid maintenance.
Meet UMD Astronomy and Physics Major Junellie Gonzalez Quiles
Quiles came to UMD from Puerto Rico to pursue her dream of becoming an astrophysicist.
Astronomers Catch a Black Hole Shredding A Star to Pieces
UMD scientists contribute to observation of closest tidal disruption in nearly a decade.
College boasts three subject areas in top 25 of Best Global Universities ranking and three departments in top 50 of Academic Ranking of World Universities.
New Horizons Reveals Pluto’s Striking Surface Variations & Unique Moon Rotations
UMD astronomers Silvia Protopapa and Douglas Hamilton contribute to first published results from Pluto flyby.