Alum Merges Diving Hobby with Decompression Sickness Research

Biological sciences graduate Grant Dong discovers his passion for working with people.

College Raises $200M for UMD Fearless Ideas Campaign

Alumni and supporters from around the world helped the college raise funds for facilities, research, faculty and student support.

The Power of BioFIRE’s Living-Learning Community

BioFIRE offers incoming students a community of faculty, staff and peers.

Graphene’s Magic Act Relies on a Small Twist

Researchers are creating the theoretical physics foundation that will be a map of this new landscape. And there is a lot to map; the phenomena in graphene range from the familiar like magnetism to more exotic things like strange metallicity, different versions of the quantum Hall effect, and the Pomeranchuk effect.

Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science Receives Renewed Federal Funding from NIST

The interdisciplinary center focused on quantum computation, communication and cryptography is expected to receive up to $12.2 million over the next five years.

New Discovery Offers a Glimpse of Our Solar System’s Potential Fate when the Sun Dies

A team including UMD astronomers found a Jupiter-like planet orbiting a white dwarf star.

From the Floundry to the Hatchery

The Mokhtarzada brothers’ startup success story comes home with a new student venture incubator at UMD.

UMD Biology’s Scott Juntti Receives $1.9M Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award

The award from the National Institutes of Health will support his pioneering research to understand how biology influences behavior.

UMD Chemistry and Biochemistry’s Pratyush Tiwary Receives $1.9M Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award

The award from the National Institutes of Health will support development of new methods to target precision medications.

Diamonds Are a Quantum Sensing Scientist’s Best Friend

In this episode of Relatively Certain, Ronald Walsworth explains how diamond defects can be used as superb magnetic field sensors and discusses recent strides toward using them to image the insides of individual cells.

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