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SCIENCE IN A SHELL
The E-newsletter of the UMD College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences
November 2020
Left to right: photos of Marine Carpuat, Quentin Gaudry and Eliza Kempton
"Rising Stars" to Participate in New Research Leaders Fellows Program
Computer Science's Marine Carpuat, Biology's Quentin Gaudry and Astronomy's Eliza Kempton are among the 18 members of inaugural cohort. More »
David Weber Rita Colwell in a laboratory
David Weber Joins Chemistry and Biochemistry as Professor and Interim Director of IBBR

Weber will maintain a primary appointment as professor in the University of Maryland School of Medicine. More »
Double Infection Fighter: UMIACS' Rita Colwell Profiled in TERP Magazine

Scientist who changed the world's understanding of cholera stands up to her field’s sexism in her new book. More »
Jeremy Shuler Ian Spielman
Physics Welcomes 16-year-old Ph.D. Student Jeremy Shuler

Shuler, who was Cornell's youngest-ever undergrad, enrolled at UMD to study particle physics. More »
JQI's Ian Spielman Featured in Physical Review A's 50th Anniversary Celebration

A 2011 paper on quantum interactions coauthored by Spielman was included. More »
Gesna Aggarwa Judi Dotson
Meet Technica Co-Executive Director Gesna Aggarwal

The senior computer science major finds inspiration in women helping women. More »
"It’s Always Been About the Data"

Judith Dotson (B.S. ’85, computer science) cruises the Atlantic aboard a Navy destroyer and breaks barriers as a woman in the defense field. More »
A computer-generated riboswitch molecule A herd of elk running through the snow
UMD Spinoff IonQ Opens New Data Center in Greater College Park

It will house the firm's state-of-the-art quantum computers and expedite the development of even more powerful quantum computers for commercial use. More »
Biology's Elie Gurarie Shows How Global-scale Animal Ecology Reveals Important Trends

International collaboration uses an Arctic-wide data archive of animal movement to explore climate change adaptation. More »

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Odyssey
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Group of diverse students in a screen capture from the TerrapinStrong video A small robot on wheels approaches two young men who are wearing masks but are not standing far enough apart Stanley Whittingham presenting a lecture over Zoom with a lecture hall in the background

Science Terps are TerrapinSTRONG

Could Robots Prevent Spread of COVID-19?

Nobel Laureate Stanley Whittingham on Lithium Batteries

Tues.
DEC 8

Science on Tap

Join us for "Air Pollution: Challenges; Success Stories; and Out of Left Field, COVID-19," a lecture by Russell Dickerson, Professor, UMD Department of Atmospheric & Oceanic Science. The event will be held virtually as a Zoom webinar. More »

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