Research
UMD Researchers Calculate Cyberattack Risk for All 50 States
Scholars Aggregate Threats to Thousands of County Governments to Draw Conclusions
Research
UMD Awarded $3.6M Mellon Foundation Grant to Advance Indigenous Archives
Project Will Develop Tools, Standards and Reparative Practices to Restore Indigenous Histories
Arts & Culture
A Well-Framed Career for Driskell Center Staffer
Art Grad’s Print to Be Featured in Spring Exhibition
Research
UMD Awarded $3.6M Mellon Foundation Grant to Advance Indigenous Archives
Project Will Develop Tools, Standards and Reparative Practices to Restore Indigenous Histories
Arts & Culture
A Well-Framed Career for Driskell Center Staffer
Art Grad’s Print to Be Featured in Spring Exhibition
Recent Articles
Autonomous Cars Don’t Understand How Blind People Move Around. A Research Team Is Trying to Boost Safety.
Instead of Actors, Members of Visually Impaired Community Demonstrate Pedestrian Scenarios for New Dataset
A Legacy of Flight
Aerospace Engineering Student Follows in Footsteps of Great-Grandmother, Black Female Aviation Pioneer
From a Mountaintop, UMD Alum Encounters Toxin-Emitting Olive Bushes, Smothering Vines and the Imperfection of Conservation
In New Book, ‘Bad Naturalist’ Details Efforts to Bring a Virginia Peak Back to Its Roots
Events
Feb 04
Changemaker Pathways Information Session
Feb 04
AR Sandbox Open Office Hours
Feb 04
Impact Bootcamp Information Session
Feb 04
The Wellness Series: Surviving Difficult Emotions
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Do Good Challenge Information Session
Have questions about the university’s annual social impact pitch competition? Join a virtual Do Good Challenge Q&A session to learn more about what makes a great application, the facts and figures to include, what you need before submitting, and more.
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In Brief
$2.5M NIH Grant Funds Cell-to-Cell Communication Research
A University of Maryland scientist using advanced microscopy to reveal the secrets of cell-to-cell communication in developing organisms received a five-year, $2.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to continue his research.
UMD-Owned Generative AI Tool Launched; Guidelines for AI Use Issued
The University of Maryland has launched TerpAI, a new UMD-owned chatbot powered by OpenAI, the company that developed ChatGPT, and available to all UMD students, faculty and staff. This is one of several generative AI (GenAI) services provided by the Division of Information Technology.
Study Suggests Design Change to Make Heat Pumps Work Better on Frigid Days
A new study in Applied Thermal Engineering by researchers at the UMD Center for Environmental Energy Engineering (CEEE) finds that heat pump performance could be significantly improved by breaking the compression process into multiple stages.
Features
The Age of Skin
Researcher’s Study of Disease That Fatally Ages Children Leads to a Discovery That Could Help Us All Look Younger
Winter Storm, Campus Transformed
Snowfall Sends January’s Few Students Outside to Frolic