Driving AI Innovation for Autonomous Vehicles

As software engineering director of AI evaluation at Wayve, John Wyrwas (B.S. ’07, physics; B.S. ’07, electrical engineering) accelerates autonomous vehicle technology into the future.

University of Maryland Mathematics Professor Lawrence Washington Receives Kirwan Undergraduate Education Award

Washington was recognized for his transformative impact on student success and program innovation during his nearly 50 years at UMD.

New Teaching Innovation Grants Help Accommodate ‘Broad Spectrum of Learners’

Biology Senior Lecturer Maira Goytia revamped her “Anatomy and Physiology I” class to develop in-class application-based activities on how the human body regulates multiple physiological variables after different physical tasks. Mathematics Lecturer Matt Griffin used the grant to enhance digital accessibility of his online resources and to help make the content relevant to his students’ varied interests for his “Elementary Statistics and Probability” class.

An Impressive Incoming Class Act

Get to know two new Science Terps in the College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences.

Solving a Decades-long Solar Flare Mystery

Physics Ph.D. student Anna Fitzmaurice develops simulations of solar storms to understand why a rare helium isotope defies expectations during the sun’s most violent events. 

Open Philanthropy Awards $336K to Map the Impact of Scientific Funding Cuts

Researchers at the University of Maryland and the University of Pennsylvania are jointly leading efforts to communicate the science and community impacts of ongoing cuts to federal funding for science and medical research.

Summer at Summit Station

UMD physics graduate student Aishwarya Vijai spent a month this summer at Summit Station, Greenland, deep inside the Arctic Circle.

UMD Named Flagship Academic Partner for Quantum World Congress 2025

The announcement cements a multi-year collaboration that has helped place UMD at the center of a global conversation on quantum science and innovation, and at the heart of the rapidly growing Greater Washington quantum ecosystem.

JQI Hosts Quantum Workshop for Science Communicators

More than two dozen science communicators convened on campus at UMD for a workshop focused on the fundamentals of quantum science and the subtleties of explaining it.

Neal Rangarajan Combines Computer Science and Medicine

Rangarajan is one of the students in the first cohort of the University of Maryland’s new B.S.-M.D. program.

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