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With four siblings in college, senior Ubie Williams works nights 40 hours a week to pay for school. Give to UMD's scholarship funds to help students like Ubie succeed.

December 9, 2013
Design Innovations Foster Research Breakthroughs

The Physical Sciences Complex was planned and designed to provide a welcoming environment for all CMNS students and faculty, with labs that can accommodate the most sensitive scientific experiments.

December 6, 2013
New Complex Helps Attract Nation's Top Physicists to JQI

The Physical Sciences Complex labs offer “the best space available for quantum measurement.”

December 6, 2013
PSC Strengthens NIST Partnership - Katharine Gebbie Advocated for JQI and New Facility

Katharine Gebbie advocated for JQI and new facility.

December 6, 2013
Great Science Happens Here - Physical Sciences Complex Opens Its Doors

15 years in the making, the college’s dreams and aspirations for a state-of-the-art research facility have become a reality.

December 6, 2013
Evolution, Civil War history meet in fossil with tragic past

Union Army forced freed slaves to dig canal where 120 million-year-old fossil - perhaps N. America's oldest flowering plant - was found. Photo: Nathan Jud

November 26, 2013
“The era of neutrino astronomy has begun”

Ice Cube in Antarctica successfully tracks high-energy cosmic neutrinos. Photo: Felipe Pedreros, Ice Cube/NSF

November 15, 2013
"Diabetic flies" can speed up disease-fighting research

Fruit flies process insulin much like people do, UMD study finds

October 29, 2013
In Nepal, villagers’ land uses help people and tigers

Humans and critically endangered tigers can coexist, SESYNC researcher finds.

October 18, 2013
UMD Higgs Hunters Celebrate Nobel Prize in Physics

Scientists had a crucial role in experiments proving the Nobel-winning theory of the early universe.

October 8, 2013
UMD alumna Ana Maria Rey wins MacArthur Foundation "genius grant"

The UMD physics PhD recipient was honored for quantum computing work. Photo courtesy of the MacArthur Foundation.

September 25, 2013
UMD-Led Deep Impact Ends, Leaves Bright Comet Tale

Scientific team’s findings from spacecraft data transformed understanding of comets

September 19, 2013