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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 one person says "Bonjour!" and the other says "Tres bien!"

How to Make a Second Language Second Nature

Ask the Expert: Advice for Real Life

Winter 2025 silhouette with scribble brain and garbled words coming out of mouth

Lost (and Found) in Translation

Migraines Rob Doctoral Student of Words. He Helps Youths Find Theirs.

Winter 2025 man in red hoodie going up escalator

Commuter Crunch

Management Researcher Eyes Steps to Improve Escalator Efficiency

Winter 2025 Jill Bradbury signs in front of stage next to electronic sign that reads, "Welcome to the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center"

Signs of Accessibility in Performing Arts

School’s First Deaf Leader to Expand Options to Guests

Winter 2025 waves crash

AI Confronts Seagoing ‘Rogues’

System Can Predict Approach of Giant Waves

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 cartoon lock that says "fake"

Seal of AI-pproval

System Could Derail Video Fakes, Deep or Shallow

Fall 2024 collision of Lego cars

Clear ‘View’ of Road Dangers

From Sidewalks to Streetlights, Common Features Shown in Google’s Tech Linked to Crash Frequency

Fall 2024 Robert Stewart poses with arms crossed

An Insider’s Look at a Prison’s Imprint

Criminologist, Once Convicted, Studies Ripple Effects of Legal System Involvement

Fall 2024 pixelated people use devices with varying amounts of battery life: 80%, 4%, 100%

How to Zap Your Phone-Charging Phobias

Ask the Expert: Advice for Real Life

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 Atmospheric and oceanic science Associate Professor Tim Canty, UMD President Darryll J. Pines and College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences Dean Amitabh Varshney discuss the technology behind a newly installed water level sensor

UMD Casts HydroNet to Predict, Prepare for Floods

Researchers, Local Leaders to Track Real-time Data in State’s Waterfront Communities

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

Spring 2024 cooking utensils and lock

Data Security, Fully Baked

Researchers Use Recipes to Test Tool for Analyzing DoD Classification Guidelines

Spring 2024 two baby deer near mailbox

Near and Deer

Is Neighborhood Wildlife Spreading COVID?