News Release (Archive)
Date Topic
01/23/2012 MC2 and MAR Inc. To Begin New Cybersecurity Partnership
01/06/2012 MC2 and Lunarline To Partner on Cybersecurity
12/07/2011 The Impact of Quantum Matter
12/05/2011 New Cybersecurity Partnership: UMD and Future Skies
11/23/2011 Topological Matter in Optical Lattices - developing new types of electronics and quantum information
11/15/2011 New Maryland Cybersecurity Center Director - Michael Hicks
11/14/2011 Antonio Busalacchi Appointed Chair of New ‘Council on the Environment’
11/13/2011 Rising Air Pollution Worsens Drought, Flooding UMD-Led Study Shows
10/26/2011 Cybersecurity Center Director Named
09/20/2011 Nobelist Dan Tsui to Receive 2011 Prange Prize
08/31/2011 University of Maryland M-Urgency App Streams Emergency Information
08/22/2011 Better 'Photon Loops' May Be Key to Computer and Physics Advances
08/12/2011 $27.5M Fed Award to UMD Launches Center to Synthesize New Environmental Solutions
07/28/2011 Invasive Bugs Cause Tremendous Damage in Maryland
07/22/2011 Astronomers Discover Universe's Largest and Earliest Mass of Water
07/14/2011 Understanding Terror Attacks in India
07/12/2011 Controlling Chemistry Improves Potential of Carbon Nanotubes
07/12/2011 University of Maryland Aging Expert Wins Prestigious Ellison Medical Foundation Award
06/30/2011 Honors College Launches Sixth Living-learning Program - Integrated Life Sciences
06/28/2011 Nearby Galaxy Boasts Two Monster Black Holes, Both Active
06/27/2011 Helping Md. Municipalities Go Green to Save: New UMD Initiative
06/16/2011 UMD-Led EPOXI Science Team Publishes Latest Comet Findings in Science
05/19/2011 Distinguished Physicist Named UMD Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences Dean
05/11/2011 Comet Hopper, a UMD/NASA Goddard Proposal, Moves to 'Final Round' in NASA Selection Process
05/2/2011 Computer Science and Biology Come Together to Make Tree Identification a Snap
04/28/2011 UMD and UCLA-Led Teams Study Asteroid Collision With Swift and Hubble Telescopes
04/25/2011 University of Maryland Announces Winners of First Mobility Programming Contest
04/19/2011 Maryland Faculty Gates, Rudnick Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
04/18/2011 UMD Chemists Pioneering Lab Instrument Training for Students
04/12/2011 UMD Names Its Four Best Inventions of 2010
04/04/2011 Neutral Atoms Made to Act Like Electrically Charged Particles
04/04/2011 The First Non-Trivial Atom Circuit: Progress towards an Atom SQUID
03/21/2011 Japanese Radiation: Movement Through the Atmosphere
03/16/2011 U.S. Public Health Risks from Japanese Radiation
03/14/2011 UMD Wins CyberWatch Mid-Atlantic Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition
03/11/2011 Japan Latest in String of Mega-Quakes Since 2004: UMD Expert
03/10/2011 U.S. Navy Needs to Prepare for Climate Changes says Report Co-Chaired by UMD Climate Scientist
03/08/2011 Now, It Can Be Told - How UMD Scientists Helped ID 'Amerithrax'
03/07/2011 Voyage to the Heart of Matter
03/04/2011 JQI Physicists Demonstrate Coveted 'Spin-Orbit Coupling' in Atomic Gases
02/24/2011 Study Shows UMD Designed Fungi Can Combat Malaria, Lyme Disease & Other Bug-Borne Illnesses
02/23/2011 Quasar's Belch Solves Longstanding Mystery
02/22/2011 Gas Rich Galaxies Confirm Modified Gravity Prediction
02/09/2011 UMD and Tenable Announce New Cybersecurity Partnership
01/31/2011 UMD Advance Lights Possible New Path to Creating Next Gen Computer Chips
01/27/2011 Gene 'Relocation' Key to Most Evolutionary Change in Bacteria
12/09/2010 CMNS Faculty Elected Fellows of the AAAS
12/09/2010 New Study Shows Earthly Gold Came from 'Alien' Bombardment
12/03/2010 UMD Research Brings Next Generation Forecasting for the Chesapeake Bay
11/19/2010 University of Maryland "Battle of the Brains" Team To Compete In Finals
11/18/2010 Spacecraft Flew Through 'Snowstorm' on Encounter with Comet Hartley 2
11/10/2010 NIST Awards $15 Million Grant to UMD to Support Postdoc Nanotechnology Research
11/10/2010 NSF funds UMD Program to Advance Women Faculty in Science and Engineering
11/8/2010 Research Partnership Awarded $9.9M from NSF to Develop "Super Rice"
11/4/2010 UMD Leads Deep Impact Spacecraft on Successful Flyby of Comet Hartley 2
11/3/2010 University of Maryland, Leading Chilean University Create Joint Astronomy Ph.D. Program
11/02/2010 UMD-Led Mission Films Jets of Material Coming from Comet
10/25/2010 Maryland to Lead $5 Million NSF-funded Research Partnership to Develop Drought Tolerant Canola Crops
10/19/2010 New UMD Cybersecurity Center Aims at Public-Private Partnerships
10/18/2010 Computer Modeling of Swimming Fish Could Lead To New Robots and Prosthetics
10/15/2010 University of Maryland Startup Named 'One to Watch'
10/13/2010 Nicotine May Play Key Role in Promising Alzheimer's Therapy
10/8/2010 UMD-Led Team Begins Imaging Comet Hartley 2 with Deep Impact Spacecraft
10/7/2010 UM and UMass Chemists Design “Tunable,” Cloaked, Anti-Cancer Toxin to Kill Tumors from Within
10/04/2010 Academic Advantages and Critical World Problems Drive UMD Integration of Two Science Colleges
8/24/2010 UM Receives $1.9 Million from National Science Foundation for Investigations of Biomolecular Structure
8/12/2010 International Scientific Conference Examines the Effects of Noise on Aquatic Life
8/11/2010 UM Partnership Receives $7.9 Million NIH Grant for Superconducting Research Magnet
8/11/2010 International Scientific Conference Examines the Effects of Noise on Aquatic Life
7/21/2010 Black Hole's Spin Moves Probably Result of Galactic Collision
7/19/2010 DNA Barcoding Reveals Five Undiscovered Frog Species Among 30 Wiped Out by Fungal Epidemic in Panama
7/09/2010 Maryland Researchers Show Hands-On Research Can be Cutting Edge AND Inexpensive
7/1/2010 Nuss to Head New Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research
6/28/2010 Computer Scientists Develop World's Fastest Program to Find Patterns in Social Networks
6/25/2010 Deep Impact Spacecraft to Make Last Swing by Earth on Way to 2nd Comet
6/4/2010 UM and Lockheed Martin Launch Strategic Relationship
6/2/2010 CREAM Team Finds Surprising Features in Cosmic Ray Energy Spectra
5/26/2010 Top Officials Cite Importance of Planned UM Physical Sciences Complex
5/20/2010 UM Partners with National Cancer Institute to Fight Cancer
4/28/2010 CMPS Faculty among Scientists Newly Elected to U.S. National Academy of Sciences
4/15/2010 CMPS and Education Have 8 Top 10 Programs in U.S. News Graduate School Rankings
4/13/2010 Random, but not by Accident: Quantum Mechanics and Data Encryption
4/8/2010 International Study Affirms Importance of Insect-Eating Animals to Ecosystem Health
4/1/2010 For UM and the World, LHC Starts Off with a Bang
4/1/2010 International Children's Digital Library Launch iPad App
3/30/2010 Salamander Movement Over Land Increases Survival of Species
3/25/2010 Revolutionary New Solution for Semiconductor & Nano Materials
3/22/2010 Rita Colwell Awarded 2010 Stockholm Water Prize
2/22/2010 NIST Awards UM $15.5 Million in Stimulus Funds for Fellowships
2/17/2010 Ben Shneiderman elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering
2/15/2010 Maryland Undergrads Bring Home Top U.S. Public School "Battle of the Brains" Honor
2/8/2010 NVIDIA Names University of Maryland a CUDA Center of Excellence
1/31/2010 Seeing the Brain Hear Reveals Surprises About How Sound is Processed
1/24/2010 Defending Planet Earth from Asteroid and Comet Strikes
1/8/2010 UM Gets $10.3 Million in Stimulus Funds for Advanced Quantum Lab
1/7/2010 Leading Environmental Scientists Call for Moratorium on Mountaintop Mining Permits
1/6/2010 Maryland Students Ready for Battle of the Brains Competition in China
1/6/2010 UM-Led Team Shines Cosmic Light on Missing Ordinary Matter
12/21/2009 How Evolutionary Mechanisms Contribute to Biological Diversity
12/17/2009 Energy Secretary Chu Names UM's Dorland a Lawrence Award Winner
12/10/2009 'Fighting' IED Attacks with SCARE Tech
11/26/2009 Building Real Security with Virtual Worlds
11/13/2009 TIME Names UM-Led Teleportation Research #6 Among Year's Best Inventions
11/11/2009 Recently Released 2009 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU)
11/2/2009 Green Is Cool, But U.S. Land Changes Generally Are Not
11/2/2009 UM Scientists Create Fruit Fly Model to Help Unravel Genetics of Human Diabetes
11/2/2009 Researchers Hail Innovative Plan to Save Rainforest, Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions
10/7/2009 Scientists Discover Huge, Nearly Invisible Ring Around Saturn
10/5/2009 Opportunity to Usurp Royal Throne Keeps Worker Termites Home
10/1/2009 Genetic Conflict in Fish Led to Evolution of New Sex Chromosomes
9/24/2009 Deep Impact and Other Spacecraft Find Clear Evidence of Water on Moon
9/23/2009 CMNS Climate Scientist Featured in Nature
9/22/2009 Microscopic Fungus Decimates Biodiversity of Frogs in Central America
08/18/09 UM Part of $10 Million NSF Grant for Computational Modeling and Analysis
7/15/2009 Scientists Decode Genome of Deadly Parasitic Worm
5/28/2009 UMd-led Consortium Wins $93 Million NOAA Climate Institute
5/12/2009 Physics Profs Head All Four MURI Projects
5/7/2009 Rise of Oxygen Caused Earth's Earliest Ice Age
5/1/2009 Chemistry and Biochemistry Professor John Weeks Elected to U.S. National Academy of Sciences
4/23/2009 A Genomic CluE for Cloud Computing
4/9/2009 New Photolithography Technique Advances Nanofabrication Process
4/8/2009 UM and Smithsonian Enter Into Agreement to Formally Pursue Research Collaborations
4/6/2009 Where Have All the Frogs Gone?
3/25/2009 Discovery of Enzyme in Tuberculosis Bacterium Paves the Way for New, More Effective Drugs to Combat TB
3/12/2009 Carbon- and Oxygen-rich Stardust Sheds New Light on Origin of Elements of Life
2/27/2009 Co-Led by UM, NRC Report Calls for Focus on Human Dimensions of Climate Change
2/19/2009 Key Milestone in Evolution of Life Pinpointed at 2.5 Billion Years Ago
1/22/2009 Long-Distance Teleportation Between Two Atoms Achieved
1/7/2009 Scientists Publish 1st Ever Evidence of Asteroids with Earth-like Crust
12/22/2008 Nick Hadley, Physics and V.S. Subrahmanian, Computer Science and UMIACS, Named AAAS Fellows for 2009
11/25/2008 Milagro Detects Cosmic Ray Hot Spots
11/19/2008 UM Conceived Experiment Finds Mysterious Cosmic Radiation
10/7/2008 Evolution in Action: How One Fish Became Two Fish
9/18/2008 UM Awarded $12.5 Million for Research Center at Frontier of Quantum Physics
8/5/2008 Maryland Student Team Wins International Underwater Robot Competition
7/17/2008 UM-Led Deep Impact Films Earth as Alien World
7/10/2008 Two UM Technologies Win R&D 100 Awards
7/9/2008 Study Puts Solar Spin on Asteroids, their Moons & Earth Impacts
6/20/2008 Math Could Help Cure Leukemia
6/20/2008 Mayfly-Mimicking Sensor to Replace Proverbial Canary in the Coal Mine
6/5/2008 UM Hosts 12th International Conference on Hyperbolic Problems
5/29/2008 MD Governor Joins UM in Celebrating Pioneering Computer Lab's 25 Years
5/19/2008 Small Star Gets Swift Reaction with Unprecedented Flare
5/8/2008 Model Successfully Predicts Large River System Fish Diversity
5/1/2008 UM Gets Only U.S. Lab for WiMAX Next Generation Wireless Applications
4/30/2008 Scientists Find Rings of Jupiter Are Shaped in Shadow
4/28/2008 Global Warming "Fix" Would Damage Ozone Layer
4/28/2008 Global Warming Fix Would Damage Earth’s Protective Ozone Layer
4/10/2008 Two UM Professors Named Guggenheim Fellows in 2008
3/24/2008 Physicists Show Electrons Can Travel More Than 100 Times Faster in Graphene
3/20/2008 Maryland Led Team Finds Oldest Known Asteroids
3/20/2008 Microsoft Buys UM Computer Scientist's Firm
3/14/2008 Scientists Create Technology for Analysis and Forecasting of Terrorism
3/10/2008 Fuel from Trash, Not From Food
3/6/2008 Move Over Galileo, It’s Science 2.0
2/26/2008 Chemistry Breakthrough Could Lead to Better Drug Design
2/25/2008 Rise of Deep Ocean 0xygen Strongly Linked to Spread of Complex Life
2/20/2008 Early Environment May Be Key to Migration Location
2/8/2008 NOAA/UM Sign New Agreement on National Climate Prediction Center
1/30/2008 Journal Celebrates Pioneer in Human Computer Interaction
1/8/2008 UM, College Park and UM, Baltimore Join to Spur Collaborative Health Research
11/19/2007 Russell Dickerson and David Poeppel Among Eight UM Scientists Named AAAS Fellows in 2007