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UMD-Led Study Discovers Warm Space Dust in Distant Place

Astronomer Sylvain Veilleux helped to detect dust far outside the body of a galaxy in a reservoir of hot gas, raising questions about how these particles survived such a long and volatile journey. 

September 3, 2025
UMD’s App Dev Club Bridges Gap Between Classroom and Industry
The club helps students get hands-on experience in computing.
September 2, 2025
Biology Professor Carlos Machado Answers Questions About Coevolution

The College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences hosted a Reddit Ask-Me-Anything spotlighting evolutionary biology research.

September 1, 2025
Zhanqing Li Awarded Verner E. Suomi Technology Medal from the American Meteorological Society

The award recognizes Li “for fundamental contributions in the application of remote sensing to quantifying Earth’s energy budget, including the impacts of aerosols and their interactions with clouds."

August 29, 2025
UMD Computer Scientists Receive NSF Funding for Privacy-Preserving Computing

Leonidas Lampropoulos and Ian Miers will study how programming languages can better support secure computation.

August 29, 2025
Unusual Deposits on Moon’s Near Side Suggest Possibility of ‘Unique Volcanic Process’

Three University of Maryland researchers helped unravel a lunar mystery hiding in plain sight.

August 28, 2025
29 Faculty Members Promoted in UMD’s College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences

Nine tenured/tenure-track faculty members, six instructional faculty members and 11 research faculty members were promoted in summer 2025.

August 26, 2025
Tracking Climate-Linked Pathogens Through DNA Science

Postdoc Kyle Brumfield and Distinguished University Professor Rita Colwell are working with an inter-university team to help mitigate the threat from waterborne pathogens.

August 25, 2025
Exploring the Secret Lives of Figs and Fig Wasps

Biology Professor Carlos Machado studies the extraordinary partnership between figs and their microscopic pollinators—and what happens when some evolutionary partners turn into ‘cheaters’.

August 21, 2025
Chen Receives NSF CAREER Award to Improve Security of AI Coding Tools

Chen’s research focuses on code large language models, which are AI systems that help programmers by completing partial programs or generating code from natural language instructions.

August 20, 2025
GRAD-MAP Students, Mentors ‘Learn From Each Other’

Over nine weeks, UMD researchers and summer scholars tackle short but ambitious projects related to physics and astronomy. 

August 20, 2025
Career Q&A with Biological Sciences and Mathematics Alum Safiullah Rifai

Rifai (B.S. ’23) received counsel from the Health Professions Advising Office and will pursue an M.D./Ph.D. at the University of Maryland School of Medicine this fall.

August 19, 2025