Explorations
Explorations
The Big Question
What’s the Most Important Cultural Object in the World?
Illustration by Lincoln Agnew
Bill Bowerman
Chair, Department of Environmental Science and…
”Faster, Safer, Cheaper“
A woman’s lifesaving new kidney arrived by drone, and the nation’s transplant system may never be the same.
by Chris Carroll | Photo by John T.…
A Cold, Hard Act
Using sensors in the Arctic, a professor hoped to visually depict the ice melting for an audience a continent away—until climate change itself disrupted his…
How Clean Power Could Make a Desert Bloom
by Chris Carroll | Illustration by Margaret Hall
Filling the Sahara, the Earth’s largest hot desert, with wind and solar electricity generation farms…
Model to Forecast Cholera Outbreaks
by Chris Carroll | Illustration by Kelsey Marotta
Research by Maryland microbiologist Rita Colwell is enabling a new international aid effort to predict…
Frogs Find a Way
Researchers Explore Survival After Amphibian Apocalypse
by Chris Carroll | Photo courtesy of Grace DiRenzo
Following the paths that biology Professor Karen…
Reporting on Reforming
By Lauren Brown
Students in the Philip Merrill College of Journalism published a 10-part investigative report detailing widespread problems in the Baltimore…
Even Flow
UMD App Aims to Tame Traffic for All
by Chris Carroll | Illustration by B Creative Group
While millions of commuters face rush hour battles armed with…
Backyard Battle
Wildlife Researchers Aim to Take Back Territory from Lyme-bearing Ticks
by Chris Carroll | Photos by Stephanie S. Cordle
Welcome to tick heaven.
It’s…
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