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."

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.