New Internet Routing Method Allows Users to Avoid Sending Data Through Undesired Geographic Regions

The new system offers advantages over existing systems: it is immediately deployable and does not require knowledge of—or modifications to—the Internet’s routing hardware or policies.

1,800 Years of Global Ocean Cooling Halted by Global Warming

Comprehensive analysis of ocean surface temperature data shows a cooling trend preceding the Industrial Revolution.

Physics Professor Wolfgang Losert Named College's Interim Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and Graduate Education

Losert's new position will be in addition to his current role as the college's associate dean for research.

"Terpaholics" Can’t Stop Giving

Philip Schneider (B.S. '79, biochemistry) and his wife Joyce (B.A. '79, criminology) established a TerpStart scholarship for first-generation college students with financial need who enroll in CMNS.

UMD Team to Teach Climate Change to High School Students

$105,000 seed grant awarded by the Maryland Council on the Environment to multidisciplinary UMD team.

Math Whiz Wins Wall Street

Ali Hirsa (M.A. '97, Ph.D. '98, applied mathematics) is managing partner at Sauma Capital and an adjunct professor at Columbia University.

A Family Affair: Gates Twins Graduate and Move on to Doctoral Studies

Delilah Gates (B.S. '15, physics and mathematics) and Sylvester Gates III (B.S. '15, biological sciences) graduated in May with their father, a UMD physics professor, giving the commencement speech.

A New Litmus Test for Chaos?

The concept of "expansion entropy" could become a simple tool to identify chaos in a wide range of systems.

Black Holes: Supermassive Guardians of the Galaxies

UMD astronomers are dedicated to finding and demystifying supermassive black holes, bringing us closer to understanding the origin of the universe and the nature of matter itself.

Meghan Murphy (B.S. '15, Biological Sciences) Awarded Princeton in Africa Fellowship

Murphy will spend a year in Botswana teaching science at the Maru-a-Pula School.

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