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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.


Essential workers demonstrate

UMD Study: Housing, Demographics Play Outsize Role in D.C.’s COVID Death Disparity

Short-term Safety Measures Could Save Lives in Predominately Black and Poor Areas, Researchers Say

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Poll (Dis)Position

Faculty Polling Expert Explains What Went Wrong in Predicting the Election … Again

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Voters file into the Xfinity Center on Tuesday

A New Generation, Voting the Old-Fashioned Way

Students in Particular Savor Chance to Pull Democracy’s Levers in Person

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A satirical illustraton presenting the evolutionary rise of man, concluding with man sitting at a desk in a COVID mask

10 Ways the Pandemic Could Reshape Our Evolution

UMD Psychologist, Other Scholars Outline Sweeping Observations About Human Nature Amid COVID-19

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Jagshemash! How Will New ‘Borat’ Go Over in His ‘Homeland’?

Scholar, Student Weigh in on Movie Sequel’s Outlandish Take on Real Country

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Asteroid illustration

How Random ‘Fortunate Events’ Led to Us All

Biology Professor’s New Book Examines Unlikely Chain of Chance

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Illustration of woman working on laptop

Report: Pandemic Exposes Educational Equity Challenges

Public Health Researchers’ Study of Montgomery County Schools Finds Underserved Black, Latino Children Fell Between Cracks

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Jeremy Shuler portrait

UMD Welcomes 16-year-old Ph.D. Student

Cornell’s Youngest Grad Enrolls to Study Particle Physics

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Answering COVID’s Big Questions, on Campus

Research Project Takes on the Crucial, Controversial Issue of Airborne Transmission

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Sev Gedra portrait with headdresses in the background

An Artist’s Vision in ‘World Beyond’

When Not Making Ghastly Sets on ‘Walking Dead’ Spinoff, Alum Crafts Eye-popping Costumes

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Student holds Rubik's Cube

Puzzling Greatness

UMD Turns Into Hub for Top Rubik’s Cube Solvers

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Darryll J. Pines portrait

9 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About President Pines

His Modest Beginnings, Boyhood Heroes, Futuristic Research and Plans to Tackle ‘Grand Challenges’

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