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Top Seniors Honored as 2015 Merrill Presidential Scholars

20 Nov 15

UMD Professor Addresses House Subcommittees on Space and Environment

17 Nov 15

Jonathan Dinman Named Chair of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics

16 Nov 15

UMD-led Team Maps Gas Emissions from Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

12 Nov 15

Three UMD Graduate Students Receive NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowships

06 Nov 15

This schematic illustrates the laser-driven electron accelerator experiment at the University of Maryland. The three images at the top directly depict three key phases of the process. At left, a laser pulse is directed into a dense jet of hydrogen gas, where it ionizes the gas to form a plasma and initiates an effect called relativistic self-focusing. (See left inset.) Electrons within the plasma are rapidly accelerated to nearly the speed of light, which produces a brief, intense flash of visible light. (S

UMD Discovery Could Enable Portable Particle Accelerators

06 Nov 15

Richard Walker Named Chair of Geology at the University of Maryland

02 Nov 15

Two UMD Faculty Members and Eight Alumni Elected 2015 Fellows of the American Physical Society

02 Nov 15

UMD Students Win Gold Medal Again at International Genetically Engineered Machine Competition

23 Oct 15

Meet UMD Astronomy and Physics Major Junellie Gonzalez Quiles

23 Oct 15

College Welcomes 10 New Faculty Members

05 Oct 15

University of Maryland Math Building Named for William E. Kirwan

02 Oct 15

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