UMD astronomer Elizabeth Ferrara was part of a 15-year collaboration that used radio telescopes to tune into the hum of the cosmos.

UMD postdoc Daile Zhang shares her fascination with lightning and tips on how to stay safe during a storm.

Krisztina Christmon works to protect farmers and reduce plastic waste through her startup, Repurpose Farm Plastic LLC.

Alum Tamara “Tammy” Kolda (M.A. ’95, Ph.D. ’97, applied mathematics) leads a poster project to explain how math ‘saves the day’ and improves our daily lives.

UMD mathematicians teach math classes inside a Washington, D.C. correctional facility.

The $500,000 award aims to increase the number of Black, Latina and Native American women receiving undergraduate computing degrees at UMD.

Junior Shannon Ganley is an aspiring astrochemist ready to take on the grand challenges of tomorrow.

As part of his Grand Challenges project, Yanir Rubinstein will transport his sports analytics lab to local schools and show students the relevance of STEM to their everyday lives. 

Researchers gain insight into how the universe is expanding thanks to gravitational lensing, a natural phenomenon that warps space around galaxies and visually magnifies celestial objects.

As co-director of the Girls Talk Math summer camp at UMD, Whitley shows underrepresented students that everyone has a place in mathematics.