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Projects developed by staff members and graduate students in the College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences received funding to create positive social change. 

Biological sciences Ph.D. candidate Eeshita Ghosh gets to the root(s) of how plants respond on the cellular level to environmental change, asking how key proteins regulate the calcium signals that sound the alarm.

Fenley monitors weather conditions around campus and is pursuing a career engineering new meteorological sensors. 

Fry has won international weather forecasting competitions and is one of the country's most promising young meteorologists.

Biological sciences Ph.D. candidate Theresa Menna characterizes the sensory genes that drive blood-seeking mosquitoes to sniff out a preferred host.

From beach trips with her family to one of the country's top science honors, Strauch found her passion where math meets the ocean.

As a newly named NOAA Hollings Scholar, UMD sophomore Felix Gomez is building a career at the intersection of art, science and the sea.

Walter will propose an official species name and prepare the genome for international databases and a genome announcement publication.

The XRISM Resolve instrument’s high resolution and sensitivity allowed the researchers to accurately measure the speed of the hot wind by looking at an X-ray signal from superheated iron in the galactic center.

Paleobotanist Nathan Jud (Ph.D. ’14, biological sciences) digs up, compares and identifies fossils that fill holes in the story of plant evolution.

As chief scientific officer and founding scientist at Elicio Therapeutics, Inc., Peter DeMuth (B.S. ’08, biochemistry; B.S. ’08, chemical engineering) leads a trailblazing effort to fight cancer, developing novel therapies that harness the power of the human immune system.

Jessica Kopew (Ph.D. ’24, biological sciences) wants to see more alternatives to animal models used in research about people.