UMD professors create “super wood,” a material stronger than most steels
It’s 11.5 times stronger than natural wood.
A former UMD student created an app that cancels your alarm on snow days
The SleepIn Alarm app is available for free on the Apple App Store.
A UMD startup uses virtual reality to tell the story of Syrian refugees crossing Europe
The startup partnered with a Georgetown University alumna for the project.
A new robotic camera will allow UMD researchers to study asteroids and black holes
This will be the flagship project of a NASA survey.
UMD researchers helped create a molecule that could lead to a vaccine for HIV
The research was conducted with Duke University.
An $8 million grant will help UMD researchers study hearing loss
This university received the grant from The National Institute on Aging.
UMD researchers found peoples’ brain waves sync up under threat
The psychology researchers teamed up with a researcher in China to conduct the research, funded by an award from The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
Honeybees are dying. In three minutes, a UMD student can tell you why.
Samuel Ramsey, a doctoral student at this university, earned two awards for his research on bees in Thailand.
UMD’s Physics Welding Shop will become a new creative space for students
The MakerSpace will be the 12th on the campus.
Companies can create custom DNA fragments. UMD researchers want to make sure they’re safe.
Researchers are creating a tool to screen orders of requested DNA strands and make sure the sequence isn’t harmful.