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Climate Change Boosts a Migratory Insect Pest

Six decades of data show that with warmer temperatures, potato leafhoppers arrive sooner, do more damage.

May 12, 2015
Nation’s Beekeepers Lost 40 Percent of Bees in 2014-15

Summer losses eclipse winter losses for the first time on record.

May 11, 2015
Biological Sciences Senior Fang Cao to Speak at College's Spring Commencement

The university's first Rhodes Scholar in four decades, Cao will study pharmacology at the University of Oxford this fall.

May 11, 2015
UMD Alumnus Krzysztof Franaszek Wins Soros Fellowship for Medical School

This competitive fellowship provides up to $90,000 in support for two years of graduate study.

May 11, 2015
Physics Professor Sylvester James Gates to Speak at College’s Spring Commencement

Gates is a Distinguished University Professor, University System of Maryland Regents Professor and John S. Toll Professor of Physics at UMD.

May 9, 2015
College’s Alumni Network Announces its 2015 Summer Undergraduate Award Winners

Five undergraduates across college receive funding for summer research, travel and educational enrichment.

May 9, 2015
College Announces 2015 Employee Award Recipients

Annual academic festival honors outstanding faculty, staff and TAs.

May 1, 2015
Three Hollings Scholarships Awarded to UMD College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences Students

Gabe Almario, Kelsey Malloy and Jonathan Seibert receive scholarships from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

April 28, 2015
UMD President Wallace Loh and Distinguished Professor Eugenia Kalnay Named to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Loh and Kalnay elected into one of the nation's oldest and most prestigious honorary societies.

April 22, 2015
Help Bring the Baltimore Checkerspot Butterfly Back to College Park

Crowdfunding campaign aims to bring the Maryland state insect back to College Park.

April 21, 2015
Pulsing Light May Indicate Supermassive Black Hole Merger

New study sheds light on end stages of mysterious gravitational dance.

April 19, 2015