September 2025 |
Features
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UMD Rises to Top 10 on Forbes’ Top Colleges Lists
The ranking among public institutions focuses on affordability, earnings and significant educational outcomes. Read More » |
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29 College Faculty Members Promoted
The promotions included nine tenured/tenure-track faculty members, six instructional faculty members and 11 research faculty members. Read More » |
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GRAD-MAP Students, Mentors ‘Learn From Each Other’
Over the summer, UMD researchers and summer scholars tackled ambitious projects in physics and astronomy. Read More » |
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UMD Scientists Track Lightning “Pollution” in Real Time Using NASA Satellite
A novel experiment reveals how thunderstorms affect our climate and how Earth’s atmosphere breaks down pollution. Read More » |
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UMD-Led Study Discovers Warm Space Dust in Distant Place
Astronomy’s Sylvain Veilleux raises questions about how these particles survived such a long and volatile journey. Read More » |
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Exploring the Secret Lives of Figs and Fig Wasps
Biology’s Carlos Machado studies the extraordinary partnership between figs and their tiny pollinators. Read More » |
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Unusual Deposits on Moon’s Near Side Suggest Possibility of ‘Unique Volcanic Process’
UMD scientists helped unravel a lunar mystery hiding in plain sight. Read More » |
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Career Q&A with Biological Sciences and Mathematics Alum Safiullah Rifai
Rifai (B.S. ’23) received counsel from the Health Professions Advising Office and began an M.D./Ph.D. at the University of Maryland School of Medicine this fall. Read More » |
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Small Wonders
Maryland State Entomologist Max Ferlauto (Ph.D. ’24, entomology) is working to protect some of the state’s smallest—and rarest—inhabitants. Read More » |
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In The News
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Geology’s Val Finlayson Pulls Green-Glowing Rock Off the Pacific Seafloor [Miami Herald]
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Entomology’s Mike Raupp Warns About the Invasive Box Tree Moth [WUSA-TV] |
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Events
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Fri & Sat
SEPT
26&27
Physics is Phun
"The Physics of Sound"
The show is geared toward a high school audience and aims to educate and entertain. LEARN MORE »
Tues
SEPT
30
Science on Tap
Topic: Host-Pathogen Genomics & Bioinformatics
Speaker: Najib El-Sayed, Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics LEARN MORE »
Thurs
OCT
9
Russell Marker Lecture in Organic Chemistry
"Organometallic Chemistry of Cross Coupling to Form Carbon-Heteroatom Bond"
Speaker: John F. Hartwig, University of California, Berkeley LEARN MORE »
Tues
OCT
14
Paint Branch Distinguished Lecture in Applied Physics
"Synchronization in Nature"
Speaker: Steven Strogatz, Cornell University LEARN MORE »
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