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DAWN Project Launches First Phase of Innovative, Web-Based Decision-Support Tool for Farmers
The DAWN tools will enable producers and specialists to improve water use and nutrient management in agricultural operations.
Warming Makes Droughts, Extreme Wet Events More Frequent, Intense
A new University of Maryland and NASA study confirms that major droughts and pluvials – periods of excessive precipitation and water storage on land – have indeed been occurring more often.
Major North American Oil Source Yields Clues to One of Earth’s Deadliest Mass Extinctions
UMD geologists studying the Bakken Shale Formation discovered a critical kill mechanism behind a series of extinctions some 350 million years ago.
Rehearsals, Recitals and Research
UMD Society of Physics Students president Delina Levine talks about the three passions in her life—astronomy, music and physics—and how they influence her efforts in research and leadership.
New NASA DART Data Prove Viability of Asteroid Deflection as Planetary Defense Strategy
Four studies co-authored by UMD astronomers offer new insight into how deflection missions can protect the planet from future Earth-bound asteroids and comets.
Fruit Flies, Ants and Algorithms
Saket Navlakha (Ph.D. ’10, computer science) finds his research inspiration at the intersection of biology and computer science
How a research decision in college set Physics Assistant Professor Christopher Palmer on a collision course with the Higgs boson.
UMD Students Place Fourth in Putnam Mathematical Competition
Clarence Lam, Isaac Mammel and Daniel Yuan earned a No. 4 ranking for UMD among 456 institutions in one of the most prestigious mathematics contests for undergraduates in North America.
For sophomore physics major Isabelle Brooks, a Department of Defense scholarship sets the stage for her future
Finding the Confidence to Try New Things in Computing
Break Through Tech organized two career development programs for 111 undergrads in January.
UMD Geologist Megan Newcombe Receives National Science Foundation CAREER Award
The award will support Newcombe’s efforts to develop a new tool for understanding the underlying causes of volcanic eruptions.
He will develop innovative technologies so that computers can better understand temporal phenomena, the term used to describe observable changes over time.