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When chemistry Ph.D. candidate Manny Bazan-Bergamino isn’t playing his clarinet, you can find him developing “molecular containers” that flush drugs out of the body.

Nicholas Rachmaninoff (Ph.D. ’23, biological sciences) found his passion in the data-driven analysis of the immune system, using math and code to understand how the body fights disease.

Despite rising emissions, improved farm management could reduce emissions by about 10% without compromising yields.

These high-achieving students will lead their classmates into the university's Commencement Ceremony.

Anirud Aggarwal, Nishkal Hundia and Raina Saraiya were finalists for the highest honor bestowed on a graduating senior each academic year, based on academic distinction, exemplary character and service to the campus or broader community. 

Guhan (Ph.D. '25, computer science), Kumar (M.S. '26, data science) and Saraiya (B.S. '25, neuroscience) will be the student speakers at the three CMNS Commencement Ceremonies.

Researchers discovered that supermassive black holes torched their host galaxies with violent winds just 1 billion years after the Big Bang, which could explain why so many early galaxies stopped forming stars.

Sujay Konda, Ishan Raghavendra and Daniel Yuan each ranked in the top 200 out of more than 4,300 competitors in one of the most prestigious mathematics contests for undergraduates in North America.

A childhood spent following their father around the halls of UMD’s Department of Physics led twins Sylvester and Delilah Gates to scientific careers researching the brain and the cosmos.

A new UMD-led study shows that meltwater flowing off ice shelves changes the ocean in ways that drive even faster melting—and most global climate projections don’t even include it.

The Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science and the Biological Sciences Graduate Program received the awards.

The 150-member Gamer Symphony Orchestra, which includes around 60 Science Terps, brings the most epic computer game music into the real world.