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Children suffering from cutaneous leishmaniasis, a disfiguring and disabling skin disease, wait for treatment at a hospital

$3M NIH Grant Supports Genomic Approach to Curing ‘Neglected’ Disease

UMD Researcher Explores Conditions That Turn Devastating Skin Ailment On, Off

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A Bug Club’s Life

Bio Major’s New Student Org Gives Undergrads Chance to Explore Entomology

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Oil rig in a small dray canyon in North Dakota

Major North American Oil Source Yields Clues to One of Earth’s Deadliest Mass Extinctions

UMD Geologists Studying Shale Formation Discovered How Rising Seas Created a ‘Kill Mechanism’ 350 Million Years Ago

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Op/ed: Do We Need a National Algorithms Safety Board?

UMD Human-Computer Interaction Expert Says Faulty Machine Learning Algorithms Risk Safety, Threaten Bias

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spacecraft approaching asteroid

New DART Studies Confirm NASA Can Bump Asteroids Out of Collision Course With Earth

Maryland Astronomers Were Central to Planetary Defense Mission That Smashed Into Asteroid Moon Last Year

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UMD Students Win Fourth Place in Putnam Mathematical Competition

No. 1 Rank Among Public Institutions Adds Up to Best Performance Since 1980

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Still from "The Last of Us"

Faculty Fungus Expert Puts ‘The Last of Us’ Under the Microscope

Show’s Mushroom Apocalypse May Not Hold Up to Scientific Scrutiny, But It’s Far From Utter Fantasy

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two people record violin AI video in front of green screen

AI Melds With Musical Tradition in Violin Teaching Platform

Computer Vision and Audio Can Analyze Playing When Instructors Are Scarce

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Two Faculty Members Receive 2023 Sloan Research Fellowships

Early-Career Award Honors Computational Astrophysicist, Quantum-Focused Computer Scientist

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‘Quantumania’ Meets Quantum Reality

We Took the Chair of Physics to Marvel’s Latest Hit to See How Well It Explains the Buzzy, Bewildering Subject

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How a UMD Researcher Helped an Oscar Nominee Take Flight

Documentary on Bird-Rescuing Brothers Has Already Won at Sundance, Cannes

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LZ detector shown in mile deep mine

Deep in a South Dakota Gold Mine, UMD Physicists Prospect for Dark Matter

A ‘Eureka’ Moment Could Rewrite Standard Model of Particle Physics, Basic Understanding of Forces in Universe

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