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Manuella Djomaleu and Simona Patange Selected as Student Speakers for College’s May Commencement Ceremony

The undergraduate and graduate student will give speeches during the college’s pre-recorded commencement celebration.

May 12, 2020
T. rex’s Long Legs Were Made for Marathon Walking

Research finds leg length gave giant predatory dinosaurs the advantage of efficiency, not speed as previously thought.

May 12, 2020
College Announces 2020 Employee Award Recipients

Faculty members, staff members and students received this year's annual awards.

May 6, 2020
Chemistry Alumnus Rick Capozza has a Good Eye

Following a successful career in the vision industry, Capozza gives back to today’s students.

May 4, 2020
New Study Produces Most Accurate Estimates Ever of Ice Loss in Greenland and Antarctica

UMD researcher helps satellite mission map elevation to calculate changes in ice cover.

April 30, 2020
Myles Poulin Receives NSF CAREER Award

The funding will help advance his study of cellular processes involved in infection.

April 29, 2020
UMD’s Christopher Jarzynski Elected to the National Academy of Sciences

Jarzynski is a leader in statistical physics and theoretical chemistry.

April 27, 2020
Two Science Terps Awarded NOAA Hollings Scholarships

The scholarships provide Sam Varga and Ciara Donegan up to $19,000 and a paid summer internship at a NOAA facility.

April 23, 2020
DNA May Not Be Life’s Instruction Book—Just a Jumbled List of Ingredients

UMD researcher develops potentially revolutionary framework for heredity and evolution in which inheritable information is stored outside the genome.

April 22, 2020
UMD’s Christopher Jarzynski Awarded a 2020 Guggenheim Fellowship

Jarzynski was recognized for demonstrating an exceptional capacity for productive scholarship in statistical physics and theoretical chemistry.

April 20, 2020
Joshua Singer Named Interim Chair of UMD’s Department of Biology

Singer's two-year appointment begins July 1, 2020.

April 15, 2020
Climate-Driven Species Loss Coming Sooner than Expected

New study reveals climate change could cause abrupt decline in biodiversity on land and in the ocean as early as 2030.

April 10, 2020