The CAREER awards, which are the NSF’s most prestigious grants for junior faculty, provide five years of financial support.
Award came from the National Science Foundation’s Enabling Discovery through Genomic Tools (EDGE) program.
New funding grows state-matched faculty positions in computer science to six endowed professorships and two endowed chairs.
The college promoted nine faculty members to the rank of professor and five to the rank of associate professor with tenure.
The college promoted eight instructional faculty members and 43 research faculty members.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scholarship will provide up to $9,500 per year for two years.
Rushi Challa and Natalie Ivanina’s experiment tested how well viruses could attack bacteria in microgravity.
Da, Gatkine and Marusiak receive awards of up to $45,000 per year.
Newly sequenced algal genome shows that adaptations essential for land plants evolved before land plants did.
UMD-developed alert system enabled telescopes around the world to zero in on cosmic particle factory.