Chris Carroll
Chris Carroll came to the University of Maryland in 2015 to write mostly about science, and a little about everything else. In nearly 20 years as a journalist, he was a staff writer at Stars and Stripes, National Geographic Magazine, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and others. The University of Missouri School of Journalism graduate has reported from about 30 countries, but only 16 or 17 U.S. states.
Keeping an Eye on the Spies
Journalism Professor’s Book Recounts Senator’s 1970s Campaign to Rein in Intel Agencies
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‘That Absolutely Has to Happen’
UMD Finance Expert, Former Treasury Official Explains Urgency of Raising Debt Ceiling, Putting Fiscal House in Order
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Rising to a Grand Challenge: Climate-Related Disasters, Farming Crises
Institutional Grant Team Works to Provide Early Warning in Maryland, Beyond
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At UMD-Sponsored Summit, Pines Offers Vision for Growing the ‘Capital of Quantum’
Quantum Investment Event Focuses on Building Thriving Business Infrastructure Around Revolutionary Technology
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Rising to a Grand Challenge: Food, Energy and Water in a Changing Climate
Institutional Grant Team Works for Balanced Approaches to Existential Problems
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Moving Beyond ‘Getting Tough’
Amid Spiraling Violence, Criminologist Studies New Approaches to Gun Crime
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Why Noncompetes Could Soon Be a Non-Thing
Maryland Economist’s Studies Have Fueled Federal Drive to Ban Controversial Employee Contracts
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Faculty Fungus Expert Puts ‘The Last of Us’ Under the Microscope
Show’s Mushroom Apocalypse May Not Hold Up to Scientific Scrutiny, But It’s Far From Utter Fantasy
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‘Quantumania’ Meets Quantum Reality
We Took the Chair of Physics to Marvel’s Latest Hit to See How Well It Explains the Buzzy, Bewildering Subject
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$30M in Grand Challenges Grants Awarded
Funded Projects Pursue Global Good, Targeting Climate, Racial Justice, Energy and More
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The Dreams of Fatema
Driven From Afghanistan by Extremism, a UMD Journalism Student Envisions a Better Future for Her Homeland
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How a UMD Researcher Helped an Oscar Nominee Take Flight
Documentary on Bird-Rescuing Brothers Has Already Won at Sundance, Cannes
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