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.
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.
Physics Ph.D. student Raunak Dey designs mathematical models to study viruses—the good, the bad and the complicated.
UMD biological sciences Ph.D. student Damani Eubanks is protecting forests and mentoring the next generation of environmental stewards.
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.
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.
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.
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.
UMD President Darryll J. Pines & Computer Science Professor Hal Daumé III speak on the impact of AI in education and society at a recent global summit.
UMD achieved its highest-ever ranking, climbing one place to No. 16 among public schools.