A Data Desert in the Arctic and Subarctic Forests Is Hindering Efforts to Study how Wildlife is Adapting to Climate Change

Scientists make an urgent plea for better snow data to understand how changing snowscapes are affecting the animals that live in high Northern latitudes.

Machine Learning Helps Target Cancer Patients for Immunotherapy

Computer scientists identified three categories of data needed to more accurately predict cancer patients’ immune response to therapy and reduce costly, unnecessary treatments.

Computer Science's John Dickerson Receives NSF CAREER Award to Improve Market Systems Using Artificial Intelligence

The funding supports efforts by Dickerson to develop methods to improve existing market systems and enable new markets.

MedStar Washington Hospital Center's Jeffrey Shupp (B.S. '01, Biological Sciences) Helps Save Burn Patient

Shupp is director of the Burn Center at MedStar Washington (Story by Center Scope.)

Honey Bee Parasites Feed on Fatty Organs, Not Blood

New UMD-led research upends long-standing assumptions about the feeding habits of varroa mites, a primary threat to honey bees worldwide.

Astronomers Map ‘Light Echoes’ of Newly Discovered Black Hole

Team led by UMD postdoctoral fellow reveals the environment around a relatively small black hole in unprecedented detail.

2019 Summer Science Camps at UMD for K-12 Students

The College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences offers summer camps in entomology, physics, computer science, biomedical science and more.

UMD Files Patents on Compounds to Treat and Prevent Gonorrhea

Wenxia Song and her collaborators identified two molecules that inhibit gonorrhea infection in a laboratory tissue model.

Meet Science Terp Laila Abujuma: Nourishing the Campus and Beyond

A Banneker/Key Scholar and member of the Integrated Life Sciences program in the Honors College, Abujama hopes to study medicine after graduation.

Ellen D. Williams and Dylan Taylor to Speak at College’s December 2018 Commencement Ceremony

Williams is a Distinguished University Professor at UMD and Taylor will graduate with a bachelor's degree in biological sciences.

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