Police encounters can be risky for people with autism. A UMD lecturer thinks VR can help.
Floreo is a program to help people with autism prepare for the stress of interacting with law enforcement.
UMD hopes to have an online sustainability training ready by next fall
The Department of Resident Life developed the program, which is called GreenEdu.
The $2 million restoration of a College Park creek is set to finish next month
The area will again be habitable for fish, salamanders and other aquatic animals.
“Out here by ourselves”: Women aerospace majors are fighting to increase their numbers
In the most male-dominated college at the school, the aerospace program has the smallest share of women.
A diverse group of UMD researchers is studying the link between brain and gut health
Their work is backed by a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation.
UMD is part of a group advising a protested telescope in Hawaii
The billion dollar project will reportedly provide images 12 times sharper than the Hubble Space Telescope.
Meet the UMD professor who spent 28 years developing a new type of apple
University professor Christopher Walsh named the new breed the "Antietam Blush."
UMD researchers may have figured out a way to develop electricity from wood
It uses low-grade heat.