UMD Computer Science's Rance Cleaveland spent the last four years as director of the National Science Foundation’s Division of Computing and Communications Foundations (CCF). 

Neighborhood street trees in Baltimore tell a tale of both historical racial discrimination and modern reparation, according to new UMD-led study.

Philip Johnson played a key role in Svante Pääbo’s research on the Neanderthal genome.

UMD computer science major Genevieve Sampson shares thoughts on her first Technica and her current role as co-executive director of the world’s biggest hackathon for underrepresented genders.

Steven Armentrout (Ph.D. ’94, computer science) and his company Parabon NanoLabs are creating breakthrough products in forensics and nanotechnology.

At the spike’s peak, up to 1 person per 1,000 annually contracted malaria that normally would not have had the amphibian die-off not occurred.

Learn how our alumni are fighting for a better future.

Karin Burghardt studies how cities can select the right trees to plant as part of their strategy to adapt to climate change.

Zhanqing Li says you have to know where all the energy goes.

Kimberly Slinski can’t stop droughts from happening, but she can see them coming.