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Fighting Disease with Artificial Intelligence

Rui Yin (Ph.D. ’24, biological sciences) harnesses the power of AI to take on the challenges of drug discovery at Absci.

October 14, 2025
Meritus School of Osteopathic Medicine Partners with UMD to Streamline the Path to Becoming a Physician

The program aims to prepare physicians to care for real communities, particularly those that need it most.

October 8, 2025
Geology Associate Professor Karen Prestegaard Answers Questions About Hydrology

The College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences hosted a Reddit Ask-Me-Anything spotlighting research on stormwater management and flooding.

October 3, 2025
UMD-Led Team Wins $2M NSF Grant to Pioneer ‘High-Entropy’ Quantum Materials

The mission of the team is to harness “configurational entropy”—the mixing of multiple elements in a single crystal structure. 

October 3, 2025
The Weather Networks Keeping Marylanders Safe

The University of Maryland is helping to keep the residents and businesses in Maryland safe from severe weather with the Maryland Mesonet and Maryland HydroNet.

October 2, 2025
Scientists Map the Navigation Styles of Wild Cats and Dogs

A University of Maryland-led study that followed over 1,200 animals across six continents challenges longstanding assumptions about animal movement, with implications for conservation and management of at-risk mammalian carnivores globally.

September 30, 2025
When Physics and Math Go Viral

Physics Ph.D. student Raunak Dey designs mathematical models to study viruses—the good, the bad and the complicated. 

September 26, 2025
Rooting for Healthy Forests

UMD biological sciences Ph.D. student Damani Eubanks is protecting forests and mentoring the next generation of environmental stewards.

September 25, 2025
Maryland Quantum-Thermodynamics Hub Secures Funding for Three More Years

Since 2022, they have plumbed the intriguing depths of this disciplinary fusion, uncovering a deeper understanding of how the everyday world emerges from the quantum realm of tiny particles.

September 25, 2025
Surf, Turf—and Chirp?

Entomology doctoral student Helen Craig (B.S. '22, biological sciences) and biological sciences major Maya Hensley chat about six types of bugs you could eat. In Entomology Professor Bill Lamp’s lab, they researched the environmental, nutritional and economic benefits of eating insects and published an article in American Entomologist this spring.

September 25, 2025
A Cosmic Photographer: Decades of Work to Get the Perfect Shot

John Mather has made a career of looking to the heavens, leading projects that have revealed invisible stories written across the sky and helped us understand our place in the universe.

September 25, 2025
Changing the Narrative From ‘You Can’t’ to ‘You Can’

Drawing on her own success story, Caroline Solomon (Ph.D. ’06, marine estuarine and environmental sciences) inspires deaf and hard-of-hearing college students to pursue careers in STEM fields.

September 24, 2025