• Mosquitoes Lost an Essential Gene with No Ill Effects

    UMD study suggests caution is needed for research that presumes closely related species use the same genes for similar functions .

  • Edward Ball
    Looking Back…And Paying it Forward

    San Diego alumnus Ted Ball invests in UMD students’ futures and honors his parents’ memory.

  • Carol Fullerton with a photo of her father, Herbert Hauptman.
    Estate Gift to Mathematics Honors Herbert A. Hauptman (Ph.D. ’55, Mathematics)

    A new endowed graduate fellowship program honors the 1985 Nobel Laureate.

  • Monique Robinson in a red dress, standing in front of a satellite photo of Hurricane Florence.
    Weathering the Storm

    TV meteorologist Monique Robinson (B.A. '17, broadcast journalism; B.S. '18, atmospheric and oceanic science) was only on the job for two months as Hurricane Florence neared Wilmington, North Carolina.

  • Eddies on the planet Jupiter
    Laying Down the Laws

    Mathematics Professor Jacob Bedrossian isn't intimidated by the impossible. He has already tackled two major projects that mathematicians said couldn't be done.

  • Pavan Ravindra
    Pavan Ravindra Solves Equations - and Rubik's Cubes

    The biochemistry and computer science dual-degree student brings to the lab the same mental focus and hands-on problem-solving skills he uses to solve the Rubik's puzzle.

  • Liz Friedman
    Antarctica Adventure

    Physics Ph.D. student Liz Friedman searches for neutrinos at the bottom of the world.

  • How Plants Shut the Door on Infection

    International team including University of Maryland researchers discovers key immune system protein in plants.

  • Unlike other kinds of quantum computers, quantum computers built atop topological error correction smear a single qubit’s worth of information out among a network of many qubits. (Credit: Gerd Altmann/Pixabay)
    Quantum Computers Do the (Instantaneous) Twist

    Researchers at JQI have discovered ways to implement robust, error-resistant gates using just a constant number of simple building blocks—achieving essentially the best reduction possible in a parameter called circuit depth. Their findings, which apply to quantum computers based on topological quantum error correcting codes, were reported in two papers published recently in the journals Physical Review Letters and Physical Review B, and expanded on in a third paper published earlier in the journal Quantum.