In Brief
October 07, 2024
A University of Maryland engineer has been awarded a $735,000 grant by the auto recycling industry to develop renewable construction materials from residue produced during the process of auto shredding.
October 04, 2024
The University of Maryland Advanced Cybersecurity Experience for Students (ACES) program has secured the renewal of a $5 million National Science Foundation CyberCorps Scholarship for Service grant, advancing efforts to close the federal workforce gap in cybersecurity.
October 03, 2024
The city of College Park will host College Park Day from noon to 6 p.m. Oct. 5 at the College Park Aviation Museum and Airport, featuring live music across three stages, a 26-foot rock wall, an inflatable football obstacle course and more.
October 03, 2024
As the popularity of small- and medium-sized antibiotic- and chemical-free farms has risen in the U.S., so has the re-emergence of poultry diseases among chickens raised on these farms. In addition, these farmers face the challenge of producing profitable yields without growth hormones, hormone promoters or chemical additives.
September 27, 2024
Two development companies have broken ground on a $148.75 million graduate student housing project at the University of Maryland.
September 27, 2024
UMD’s Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps (AFROTC) detachment ranks in the top 10% nationwide for its performance in officer production, operational efficiency and overall effectiveness.
September 27, 2024
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) this month awarded $2.5 million to the University of Maryland and partners for research to improve the safety and performance of heat pumps that use refrigerants that are environmentally friendly but flammable.
September 24, 2024
Forest ecosystems store vast amounts of carbon, making them crucial in the fight to stabilize the Earth’s climate. However, deforestation and the effects of climate change could push the Earth toward “tipping points” that lead to rapid global warming, highlighting the urgent need for enhanced monitoring of carbon in forests as well as new methods to enhance forests’ abilities to absorb carbon.
September 23, 2024
Terps and members of the Greater College Park community are invited to roll up their sleeves and put on their work gloves for Good Neighbor Day on Oct. 26.
September 20, 2024
A University of Maryland senior was named on Tuesday to Glamour magazine’s 2024 College Women of the Year: STEM Edition.
September 19, 2024
The contractor for the state’s light-rail Purple Line now under construction will change the traffic pattern at the Campus Drive and Adelphi Road intersection near the University of Maryland Global Campus beginning on or about Sept. 24 for approximately six months.
September 18, 2024
The Maryland Department of Commerce awarded the University of Maryland $2 million to fully match a private donation establishing a new Brin Endowed Chair in Mathematics within the College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences. The endowment was made through the Maryland E-Nnovation Initiative (MEI), a program created to spur basic and applied research in scientific and technical fields at colleges and universities.
September 05, 2024
The University of Maryland moved up to No. 12 among public institutions in Forbes’ 2024 rankings of America’s Top Colleges, released Aug. 27.
September 05, 2024
Each book selected as the University of Maryland’s “First Year Book” asks students, staff and faculty to consider important questions, prompts meaningful discussions and offers new perspectives. Now, the First Year Book Committee is asking: What Terps should read next? Nominations will be accepted through Oct. 1.
September 03, 2024
The University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) and University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) have become the first two universities in the state to sign on to the National Intercollegiate Mutual Aid Agreement (NIMAA), an initiative between higher education institutions to facilitate mutual aid and support during an emergency.
August 27, 2024
For the fourth year in a row, the University of Maryland was recognized by Forbes as one of America’s Best Employers by State for 2024. Newsweek also named UMD on its 2024 list of America’s Greatest Workplaces for the second consecutive year.