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The U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) has awarded nearly $4.9 million to support a University of Maryland research project aimed at creating more affordable, convenient, efficient and resilient electric vehicle (EV) batteries.
Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer Carlo Colella and Vice President for Diversity and Inclusion Georgina Dodge sent the following email to the campus community today: President Pines announced the path forward for the university's response to the recommendations of the Public Safety and Community Policing Task Force, including the establishment of a Campus Safety Advisory Council (CSAC).
The University of Maryland is launching a new press freedom initiative funded by a nearly $1 million grant from the nonprofit First Look Institute, the organization and the Philip Merrill College of Journalism announced today.
A University of Maryland team has been awarded $750,000 to address the complex and interconnected challenges of food and nutrition security in Maryland.
Senior Vice President and Provost Jennifer King Rice sent the following email to the campus community today: I am delighted to announce that after a successful, highly competitive search, Ms. Veronica Marin has been appointed to the position of director of the University Senate Office.
While global patterns of terrorist attacks show a decline since 2016, such violence has been on the rise in parts of West Africa, said John McCauley, an associate professor in the University of Maryland Department of Government and Politics: “Terrorism is anything but getting better in this particular part of the world.”
A University of Maryland psychologist is taking the peer-based opioid use disorder (OUD) treatment model she and her team developed in Baltimore, Md., to the state’s Eastern Shore with the support of a $3.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
With construction of the Purple Line light rail route scheduled to ramp up in January, long-term traffic pattern changes in the core of the University of Maryland campus will begin on Dec. 27, Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer Carlo Colella said today.
The University of Maryland remains a top 10 public U.S. research institution, according to the National Science Foundation’s Higher Education Research and Development (HERD) survey, widely recognized as the preeminent national ranking for universities engaged in sponsored research.
Senior Vice President and Provost Jennifer King Rice sent the following email to the campus community yesterday evening: At the start of winter weather season, we wanted to remind you of our inclement weather procedures. The university may close or delay opening the campus in the event that inclement weather conditions pose a serious threat to the health and safety of the university community.
Faculty and staff tickets are available for the Terps’ bowl game faceoff against former ACC rival North Carolina State on Dec. 30 in Charlotte, N.C. Maryland students can also purchase tickets at a discounted price of $35 by signing into their accounts.
The University of Maryland won a 2022 Planner’s Choice Award as Best Venue for Youth Retreats and Camps in the annual awards sponsored by the marketing and membership organization Unique Venues.
Countries that frequently trade with others have fewer “cross-national homicides”—or homicides compared to other countries—according to a recent study of 78 countries’ 1960-2013 homicide rates and “globalization” measures published last month in the journal Social Forces by Gary LaFree, a Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, and Bo Jiang Ph.D. ’19 of the University of Macau.
The University of Maryland's test-optional undergraduate application process will remain in effect through the Fall 2025 semester, allowing prospective students to continue to determine whether they want standardized test results considered in their application reviews, Assistant Vice President for Enrollment Management Shannon Gundy announced today.
The Quantum Technology Center (QTC) at the University of Maryland is partnering with the U.S. Department of State to supply the department with technical information and input regarding the latest developments in quantum technologies and related enabling technologies. It will also facilitate discussions and networking on this developing technology with other U.S. government and industry partners.
The Office of Diversity and Inclusion welcomes the campus community to meet candidates for the director of its Diversity Training and Education (DTE) unit.
The University of Maryland football team will make its 29th bowl appearance when it meets North Carolina State in the 2022 Duke’s Mayo Bowl at noon Dec. 30 at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, N.C. The game will be televised nationally on ESPN.
The University of Maryland was named an inaugural “All In” Most Engaged Campus for Student Voting by a national nonpartisan initiative for its efforts to encourage student engagement in the democratic process.
Former University of Maryland football standout and NFL All-Pro Shawne Merriman will hold his 20th annual Lights On Foundation Coat Drive leading up to Saturday's Maryland-Rutgers football game at SECU Stadium.
The UMD School of Music’s Maryland Opera Studio was named a first-place winner in the National Opera Association 2021–22 Opera Production Competition for its spring production of John Musto and Mark Campbell’s “Later the Same Evening.” The awards recognize “creative, high-quality” opera productions at academic institutions and music conservatories across the country.
A $500,000 award from the National Science Foundation is funding a study by the University of Maryland and University of Wisconsin to solve challenges that renewable energy generator companies face when they try to connect their wind-, water- or solar-powered energy source to the U.S. power grid.
Local high school students seeking to attend college will get an extra boost of financial literacy and support, thanks to a new five-year, $3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education.
As utility and energy companies seek improved ways of monitoring equipment to maintain power delivery amid rising environmental challenges, a Baltimore-based uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS) startup with links to the University of Maryland is stepping up.
While the world is unlikely to meet the Paris Agreement goal of capping global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius in this century, it can adopt climate strategies that limit the amount of time spent above that threshold, potentially cutting it by decades, according to a new study by University of Maryland researchers and colleagues.
Against the backdrop of the ongoing war between Ukraine and Russia, the University of Maryland has begun a new partnership with a higher education institution in the Ukrainian capital.
Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the value of globalization was a given for many firms. But the crisis amplified the vulnerabilities of doing business across borders, and now, new University of Maryland research from is helping to tally the potential dark side of multinational operations.
Former Maryland men’s soccer goalkeeper Dayne St. Clair was named on Sunday to Canada’s 26-man squad for the 2022 FIFA Men’s World Cup.
The No. 2 Terps advanced to the field hockey Final Four with a dramatic 3-2 shootout victory over No. 8 Syracuse on Sunday in College Park. It is the team’s second year in a row to advance to the NCAA Semifinals and their 21st such appearance in 35 seasons under head coach Missy Meharg.
The nomination period is now open for the University System of Maryland Board of Regents’ Staff Award, with the deadline for submission extended to Nov. 18.
Terps whose parents didn’t graduate from college are invited to share advice, encouragement and other stories and to be photographed for a new display as part of today’s newly expanded First-Generation College Student Celebration Day event.
Climate predictions suggest the mid-Atlantic will face more frequent and severe rainstorms in coming years, which begs the question of what to do with the additional rainwater. Researchers from the University of Maryland surveyed a variety of stakeholders and found that everyone agrees the old centralized way of managing stormwater needs to change, with opinions breaking down into three general camps.
University of Maryland researchers in a new study have demystified the process by which cells receive their shape—and it all starts with a protein called actin.
A new report published by the Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE) showing that the state is on track to meet its 2030 greenhouse gas (GHG) targets and is the first in the nation to use a NASA-owned remote-sensing system developed by the University of Maryland for measuring carbon stored in forests.
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