In Memoriam: UMD Alumnus Milford “Mickey” Foxwell, Longtime University of Maryland School of Medicine Admissions Leader

He was the “face of the school” for thousands of students.

University of Maryland Astronomers Find X-rays Lingering Years After Landmark Neutron Star Collision

New, most complete start-to-finish view of neutron star merger rewrites the way scientists understand these events.

UMD Researchers Develop Tools to Sharpen 3D View of Large RNA Molecules

New technique breaks through a technology roadblock that limited RNA imaging for 50 years.

UMD Biologist Awarded $1.5 Million to Develop Brain Mapping Techniques

NIH’s High-Risk, High-Reward Research Program will fund a project that could transform efforts to understand how neurons are wired.

Machine Learning: Harnessing the Predictive Power of Computers

Researchers in our college are using machine learning for applications that touch many aspects of our lives—from weather prediction and health care to transportation, finance and wildlife conservation.

The Secrets Atoms Hold, Part 1: Search for Dark Matter

In this episode of Relatively Certain, Dina Genkina sits down with JQI Adjunct Fellow Marianna Safronova, a physics professor at the University of Delaware, and JQI Fellow Charles Clark, an adjunct professor of physics at UMD and a fellow of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, to talk about how precision measurements with atoms might shed some light on matter that’s otherwise dark.

Tested by the Pandemic

University of Maryland alumna and her laboratory team take on the challenges of COVID-19.

Space Weather Mission Gets $1.25 Million and a Green Light for Feasibility Studies

University of Maryland astronomer is part of a team selected by NASA to design a mission for the first global view of space weather.

U.S. News Ranks UMD’s Computer Science Undergraduate Program Among Nation’s Best

UMD also ranks 9th in cybersecurity and 16th in artificial intelligence and data analytics/science.

Mosquitoes Lost an Essential Gene with No Ill Effects

UMD study suggests caution is needed for research that presumes closely related species use the same genes for similar functions .

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