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    UMD Students Create Gamified Mindfulness App for Kids

    Capy’s Journey introduces mindfulness through interactive levels and daily challenges. Players guide a capybara character through activities designed to encourage reflection, focus and consistency.

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    UMD Model Joins ‘Arms Race’ to Develop AI-Powered Tech that Understands Music

    An app based on Music Flamingo could start with both a listener’s baseline preferences pegged to listening history—like a fondness for gravelly vocals or waltz crescendos—then adjust its recommendations following ChatGPT-like prompts.

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    Nvidia Comes to UMD, Virtually

    The company's annual artificial intelligence-focused GTC Conference appeared via video feed in The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center’s Dekelboum Concert Hall. Nvidia executives visited College Park, where they participated in discussion panels and distributed pricey Nvidia swag including—for the two luckiest attendees—RTX 5090s, the most powerful consumer graphics processing units (GPU) ever sold, with retail prices starting at $2,000.

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    UMD Astronomer Co-Leads Creation of First 3D Temperature Map of Distant Exoplanet

    This new technique lays the groundwork for more detailed future explorations of faraway planets.

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    New AI Tool Fights Back Against Speech Eavesdropping

    University of Maryland computer scientists developed an AI-enhanced system that protects personal voice data from automated surveillance.

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    Scientists Develop Floral-Scented Fungus That Lures Mosquitoes to Their Doom

    Entomology's Raymond St. Leger helped develop a new strain of fungus that mimics flowers to attract and kill mosquitoes, offering a new weapon in the fight against disease-carrying insects.

  • Sweta Agrawal and Eleftheria Briakou
    Translating the Power of Artificial Intelligence

    At Google, Sweta Agrawal (M.S. ’20, Ph.D. ’23, computer science) and Eleftheria Briakou (M.S. ’20, Ph.D. ’23, computer science) are working on the cutting edge of artificial intelligence, advancing Google Translate.

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    Congratulations to the College's August 2025 Graduates!

    Over 200 students from our college graduated in August 2025.

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    From EMT to Computational Biology

    UMD sophomore Priya Tyagi became EMT-certified to help people in crisis. Now, she’s pursuing a career in computational biology to demystify disease—including her own rare condition.

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    Tracking Wildfires from Space

    The Wildfire Tracking Lab provides twice-daily estimates of every fire larger than four square kilometers in the U.S. and Canada, using satellite data to ensure consistent coverage. The result is not only a record of where a fire is at a given moment, but a timeline of its growth and evolution over days or weeks.