Professor David MacMillan gives talk on winning Nobel Prize for breakthrough in chemistry
Dr. MacMillan and Benjamin List won the award for their creation of organocatalysis, a process that speeds up chemical reactions.
UMD Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences department presents seminar on AI weather modeling
As extreme weather becomes more and more common, artificial intelligence is helping researchers understand and predict it.
UMGC to pilot virtual reality classrooms this fall
Through Oculus Quest 2 headsets, UMGC will pilot virtual and augmented reality learning environments during the fall 2022 semester.
Students showcase research initiatives at Undergraduate Research Day
The research on display included the impact of Instagram on well-being and the effect of COVID on relationships.
This chatbot from UMD professors will answer questions about maternal, infant health
The professors are still designing the bot, and once it is released it will be available as a phone app.
President Pines says there’s no scientific reason to save Guilford Woods. He’s wrong.
An environmentally-conscious defense of Guilford Woods.
STEM and civics are intertwined. Education must reflect this.
People who work in STEM need to be more involved with bureaucratic and political decisions.
Joining a nationwide race, UMD researchers search for treatment, vaccine for COVID-19
The work of these researchers has been made possible, in part, by grants awarded by this university's Division of Research.
As semester nears end, UMD is working on a plan for research to return to campus
A campus task force is providing recommendations on how research should return to campus.
Pandemic readiness demands centralized outbreak response teams
We need coalitions of research groups to keep us on our toes ahead of the next pandemic.