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Fall 2025 forest fire illustration

Pulling a Global Fire Alarm

UMD’s Unique Forest-Monitoring Capabilities Revealed an Alarming Wildfire Spike

Fall 2025 chatbot with text boxes on screen and magnifying glass

How to Chat ... With a Bot

Ask the Expert: Advice for Real Life

Fall 2025 closeup of a mosquito

Targeting the World’s Most Bloodthirsty Killer

UMD scientists built a fungus that wipes out mosquitoes. With African partners, they hope to save millions of lives.

Spring 2025 house floating in water with flames in background

Losing a Game of Risk

Insurance Expert Proposes Plan to Save Homeowners’ Coverage

Winter 2025 strawberry holding umbrella with crabs on it; a pear holding a "RIPE" sign shaking hands with a banana; a sparkling steak

Fresh Takes on Fighting Food Waste

Researchers Devise Spoilage-Stopping Tech That Could Change How We Grow, Buy and Store Produce

Winter 2025 house with fertilizer, salt shaker, cleaning products, cinder block and ice melt

Salt Life

Take a Home Tour to Learn How We’re Worsening Salinity Around the World

Fall 2024 blue radiation emerges from the UMD reactor

Glowing ‘Gem of the University’

Maryland’s Little-Known Nuclear Reactor Observes a Half-Century of Fission

Fall 2024 astronaut on the moon

A New Reflection on History

Physicist Who Helped Send Mirrors to Moon on Apollo 11 Prepares to Launch an Improved Model

Fall 2024 two cans of Testudo Premium Lager, with one showing Testudo holding a Maryland flag

Testudo on Tap

UMD Joins With Baltimore Brewery Co-founded by Alum to Offer New Beer

Fall 2024 Lung illustration with bellhop outline inside. Viruses throughout

Welcome to the Hotel Influenza

A groundbreaking UMD researcher investigating how respiratory infections spread asks volunteers to check in—and get sick for science.

Spring 2024 The image is a stylized, futuristic illustration that depicts a hilly landscape with a car winding through it.

Charging Up That Hill

Ninety-second battery fill-ups. All-day range. Unparalleled safety. UMD researchers are powering up EVs to save the planet.

Winter 2024 group installs Mesonet tower

Towering Ambitions for Forecasts

Maryland Mesonet to Provide Early Weather Warning in a Changing Climate

Winter 2024 Minesweeper on farm

AI Offers Hope on Dangerous Ground

Researchers Pinpoint Unexploded Shells, Rockets in Ukraine’s Agricultural Regions

Fall 2023 food in test tubes

Lessons in Flavoring

Food Scientist Melds Chemistry, Culinary Passion at McCormick

Fall 2023 Lynde Washington poses in front of his artwork

Brush With Greatness

Former Cornerback Tackles Subjects’ Essences on Canvas

Fall 2023 Hal Daumé III behind projection of code

Building AI You Can Trust

Researcher Heading New $20M NSF-Backed Institute Says Systems Should Support Societal Good