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Moore Announces $1B ‘Capital of Quantum’ Initiative Centered at UMD

Strategic Partnership Aims to Cement State, D.C. Region as World-Leading Quantum Science and Innovation Hub

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Latest Moon Mission Carries a New Reflection on History

Physicist Who Helped Send Mirrors on Apollo 11 Launches an Improved Model

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Terps Slide Into New Training Home

Stanley Bobb Baseball Performance Center Celebrates Grand Opening

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Edward and Jennifer St. John Give $10M for New Center for Translational Engineering and Medicine

Philanthropic Investment to UMCP, UMB to Fuel Innovation, Collaboration, Accelerated Tech Transfer to Improve Human Health

Research

Moore Announces $1B ‘Capital of Quantum’ Initiative Centered at UMD

Strategic Partnership Aims to Cement State, D.C. Region as World-Leading Quantum Science and Innovation Hub

Research

Latest Moon Mission Carries a New Reflection on History

Physicist Who Helped Send Mirrors on Apollo 11 Launches an Improved Model

Athletics

Terps Slide Into New Training Home

Stanley Bobb Baseball Performance Center Celebrates Grand Opening

Research

Edward and Jennifer St. John Give $10M for New Center for Translational Engineering and Medicine

Philanthropic Investment to UMCP, UMB to Fuel Innovation, Collaboration, Accelerated Tech Transfer to Improve Human Health

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MomentUMD Live With Kevin Atticks

Join the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources for the next installment of MomentUMD Live: AGNR Conversations Around Grand Challenges, featuring Kevin Atticks, secretary of agriculture for the state of Maryland.

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EXPERTS in the News

If you think about Maryland, I won’t say every high wind event that we have is associated with some type of storm activity, but a lot of them are. When we have hurricane force winds, we also tend to have a lot of rain.

Bill Koffel

Visiting senior faculty specialist in the Department of Fire Protection Engineering, on why large wildfires like the ones in Los Angeles aren’t likely in Maryland

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UMD-led Project Awarded $1.4M for AI-Driven ‘Digital Twin’ of Central Africa’s Forests

NASA has awarded a University of Maryland-led team a $1.4 million grant to develop artificial intelligence-based technology to support the conservation of carbon and biodiversity corridors in Central Africa.

Ball to Step Down as Vice President for Research

University of Maryland, College Park President Darryll J. Pines and University of Maryland, Baltimore President Bruce E. Jarrell sent the following email to campus leaders on Tuesday. We write to inform you of a transition occurring later this year in the Division of Research at both the University of Maryland, College Park and University of Maryland, Baltimore. After three and a half years of laudable service, Vice President Gregory Ball will step down this summer from the role of vice president.

AI Commission Report Offers Recommendations for Exploring, Adopting AI Uses on Campus

The President's Commission on Artificial Intelligence’s final report was shared this month with the campus community, culminating its charge by University of Maryland President Darryll J. Pines to “explore, evaluate and provide recommendations on the responsible development, deployment and ethical use of AI technologies” at UMD.

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Winter Storm, Campus Transformed

Snowfall Sends January’s Few Students Outside to Frolic

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Welcome to the Hotel Influenza

A Groundbreaking UMD Researcher Investigating How Respiratory Infections Spread Asks Volunteers to Check in—and Get Sick for Science

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