Sankar Das Sarma, Christopher Monroe, Ian Spielman, Dennis vanEngelsdorp and Chunsheng Wang received the honor.

Distinguished University Professor Margaret A. Palmer argues that the environmental impacts of mountaintop removal cannot be mitigated by simply creating new streams.

Researchers at the University of Maryland developed a new tool based on genetic evolution that automatically learned to evade censorship in China, India and Kazakhstan.

An international team including University of Maryland scientists revealed how genetic variations in a single species of bacteria can amplify infection.

Global study confirms caribou as longest migrator and reveals even greater distances traveled by animals without regular migratory pattern.

Chester (B.A. ’05, M.A. ’11) returns to her alma mater to direct new effort that provides graduate STEM programs for working professionals.

A UMD-led team chemically engineered carbon nanotubes to synthesize and trap trions—quasi-particles potentially useful in bioimaging, chemical sensing and quantum computing.

In a uranium-based compound once dismissed as uninteresting, scientists watched superconductivity arise, disappear, then return under the influence of high magnetic fields.

University of Maryland and Chinese Academy of Sciences researchers found that differences in soil fungus explain why tree species fare better in small numbers, a phenomenon that promotes forest diversity

Canty will succeed Kennedy Paynter to lead one of the largest environmental graduate programs in the USM.