Student Research Shines at UMD’s Bioscience Day

28 undergraduate and graduate students win poster session awards.

Rance Cleaveland Returns to UMD After Serving as NSF Division Director

UMD Computer Science's Rance Cleaveland spent the last four years as director of the National Science Foundation’s Division of Computing and Communications Foundations (CCF). 

Urban Trees Rooted in Redlining and Environmental Injustice

Neighborhood street trees in Baltimore tell a tale of both historical racial discrimination and modern reparation, according to new UMD-led study.

UMD Biologist Contributes to 2022 Nobel Prize in Medicine Research

Philip Johnson played a key role in Svante Pääbo’s research on the Neanderthal genome.

Celebrating Eight Years of Technica: Annual Hackathon Returns Oct. 15-16

UMD computer science major Genevieve Sampson shares thoughts on her first Technica and her current role as co-executive director of the world’s biggest hackathon for underrepresented genders.

Cracking Cold Cases and Taking DNA Technology to the Next Level

Steven Armentrout (Ph.D. ’94, computer science) and his company Parabon NanoLabs are creating breakthrough products in forensics and nanotechnology.

Malaria Spike Linked to Amphibian Die-off

At the spike’s peak, up to 1 person per 1,000 annually contracted malaria that normally would not have had the amphibian die-off not occurred.

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