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UMD Biology’s Scott Juntti Receives $1.9M Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award

UMD Biology’s Scott Juntti Receives $1.9M Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award

The award from the National Institutes of Health will support his pioneering research to understand how biology influences behavior.

UMD Chemistry and Biochemistry’s Pratyush Tiwary Receives $1.9M Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award

UMD Chemistry and Biochemistry’s Pratyush Tiwary Receives $1.9M Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award

The award from the National Institutes of Health will support development of new methods to target precision medications.

Diamonds Are a Quantum Sensing Scientist’s Best Friend

Diamonds Are a Quantum Sensing Scientist’s Best Friend

In this episode of Relatively Certain, Ronald Walsworth explains how diamond defects can be used as superb magnetic field sensors and discusses recent strides toward using them to image the insides of individual cells.

Foundational Step Shows Quantum Computers Can Be Better Than the Sum of Their Parts

Foundational Step Shows Quantum Computers Can Be Better Than the Sum of Their Parts

Researchers have made progress toward ensuring we can trust the results of quantum computers even when they are built from pieces that sometimes fail.

Foundational Step Shows Quantum Computers Can Be Better Than the Sum of Their Parts

Foundational Step Shows Quantum Computers Can Be Better Than the Sum of Their Parts

Researchers took a step toward a more reliable, practical quantum computer in recent experiment.

Cell “Quakes” May Help Cells Respond to the Outside World

Cell “Quakes” May Help Cells Respond to the Outside World

UMD researchers explain how recently discovered earthquake-like disturbances occur in living cells.

Novel Design May Boost Efficiency of On-Chip Frequency Combs

Novel Design May Boost Efficiency of On-Chip Frequency Combs

A collaboration of UMD researchers has proposed a way to make chip-sized frequency combs ten times more efficient by harnessing the power of topology—a field of abstract math that underlies some of the most peculiar behaviors of modern materials.

Wide Heads Help Sperm Swim Together

Wide Heads Help Sperm Swim Together

New study from UMD shows that machine learning can help identify cell shapes associated with complex cell behaviors.

Foot in the Door for Sustainability

Foot in the Door for Sustainability

Kelley Baek (B.S. ’05, biological sciences; MBA ’11) helps make sure Nike’s sneakers are all green.

UMD Scientists Help Put a New Face on National Weather Service Forecast Maps

UMD Scientists Help Put a New Face on National Weather Service Forecast Maps

Data visualization research helped guide a redesign to make long-term forecasts easier to understand.

UMD’s Computer Science Undergraduate Program Ranks No. 9 Among Public Institutions

UMD’s Computer Science Undergraduate Program Ranks No. 9 Among Public Institutions

Program ranks in the Top 10 for the second year in a row.

Undergrads Explore Tech Careers by Building Apps to Solve Transportation Challenges

Undergrads Explore Tech Careers by Building Apps to Solve Transportation Challenges

Break Through Tech DC hosts its first summer Guild at UMD.