The award is the highest honor the U.S. government bestows on early-career scientists and engineers.

Physicist Douglas Currie, who helped send mirrors on Apollo 11, launches an improved model.

Cassandra Lewis (B.S. ’09, computer science), head of avatar innovation at Meta, promotes on-screen representation by making avatars more customizable.

Take a home tour to learn how we’re worsening salinity around the world.

The strategic partnership aims to cement state and D.C. region as a world-leading quantum science and innovation hub.

The prestigious award is the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on outstanding scientists and engineers who are early in their careers.

Matthew Becker (M.S. ’17, Ph.D. ’18, applied mathematics & statistics, and scientific computation) published a math-infused thriller novel.

After a year at the University of Illinois-Chicago updating his physics and mathematics skills, Ryan received a meteorology fellowship at Maryland. It wasn’t a far leap to consider such a field. It’s a career that came about, also with his dad’s influences.

As a Maryland doctoral student, Fang-Zhen Teng was one of just two students enrolled in a course on isotope geochemistry, which considers the smallest unit of matter in an element-the atom-that still retains the chemical properties of that element.

Courtney Grimes (Ph.D. '21, chemistry) is rallying environmental justice communities to advocate for their own health and welfare.