Research
7 Undergrads Honored for Outstanding Research
Students Excelled in Fields From History to Computer Engineering to Math
$178M Cooperative Agreement Continues UMD-led Partnership with NASA, Other Institutions
Center for Research and Exploration in Space Science & Technology II Fosters Collaboration on Exploration, Innovation, Diversity
Student-led Journalism Investigation Highlights Pandemic’s Effect on Essential Workers
Findings by UMD Howard Center, University Partners to Be Published in News Outlets Nationwide
Cars Are About to Cost a Lot More. A UMD Expert Explains Why
How the Pandemic, Bad Planning Led to a Stunning Shortage of Computer Chips
NEH Grants to Support History Professors’ Research
Part of $24M Awarded Nationwide, Funds to Support Work Expanding Enslaved.org Database and Researching Book on NYC Transit Desegregation
Decoding Black Stories Built Into the Environment
Students Take Deep Dive Into Links Between African American History, Architecture and Urban Planning
Oops-Proofing
A Collaboration Between CRR and Amazon Lab126 Seeks to Understand How Devices Can Be More Durable
Why European Soccer Fans Gave Super League a Red Card
UMD Marketing Expert Mulls Lessons From Proposed, Quickly Scrapped Elite League
Conservation Criminology for a Troubling Trade
UMD Researcher Examines Traffic in Poached Wild Meat in Urban Africa
UMD Physicist Elected to National Academy of Sciences
Alessandra Buonanno Helped Lead Project That Discovered Gravitational Waves
4 Reasons Biden’s Plan to Slash Emissions Can Work
From Changing Politics to Tech Advances, UMD Climate Policy Expert Outlines Optimism on This Earth Day
From Innovation to Inauguration
Pines Announces New Quantum Business Incubator, Presents Invention and Entrepreneurship Awards
People Love Hybrid Cars. Get Ready for Hybrid Planes
Researchers Designing New Engine for Greener Aircraft
When Seeing Is Not Believing
A UMD Researcher Is Developing Algorithms to Detect Computer-Generated Forgeries, Digital Deepfakery
Historic Home’s Pain in the Buttress
Preservation Program Completes Work to Save a Local Architectural Anomaly
$4.8M Grant to Expand Black Digital Studies, New Labs
Mellon Foundation to Support 6 Institutions’ Focus on Technology and Inequality
Education Researchers Awarded $2M in National Collaboration Supporting Students With Disabilities
Grant to Enhance Transitions to Careers, Postsecondary Education
How Safer Winter Streets Endanger Water Quality, Human Health
UMD-led Study Warns Cascading Effects of Salts in Environment Require Coordinated Action
$2.5M Gift Funds Influenza and COVID-19 Prevention Research
Lab to Accelerate Investigations of Virus Interactions, Disease-Fighting Effectiveness of UV Light Fixtures
Learning From the Lessons of 2020
Public Health Conference Seeks to Improve Resilience and Outcomes Post-Pandemic
UMD Study: Face Forward for Pandemic Coping
Looking to Future, Rather Than Dwelling on Trauma, Helped Older Adults’ Mental Health
Social Sciences, Humanities Can Help in Response to Climate Change, Study Finds
UMD Anthropologist, Other Researchers Advocate for Importance of Historical Scholarship Alongside Data
UMD Initiative to Help Small Businesses of Color Survive—and Thrive—Despite Neighborhood Change
$3M J.P. Morgan Chase Investment to Launch National Network
‘Alexa, What Time Should I Take My Meds?’
UMD Research Shows How Telehealth Can Encourage Patients’ Self-care
Op/ed: U.S. Should Share Vaccines to Cover the Globe
As Other Nations Make Donations, We Could Start Looking Like Hoarders, Business Researcher Says
Climate Change Cuts Into Agriculture Productivity, Study Finds
Warmer and Poorer Regions of the Globe Hardest Hit
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