University of Maryland

The University of Maryland climbed into the nation’s top five colleges for cultivating student entrepreneurialism, according to rankings released today by The Princeton Review and Entrepreneur magazine. UMD placed No. 5 across all…

A tiny robot glides up the arm and across the torso of dancer Anna Adhikari ’23 (above), connecting an ancient art form to the technology of the future. Instead of passively watching, the audience for the piece—through their…

Exposure to state-level school desegregation during primary school was associated with higher midlife cognitive function among Black Americans who grew up in the U.S. South from the 1950s to 1970s, according to new findings by a University…

University of Maryland researchers aiming to combat rising global temperatures have developed a new “cooling glass” that can turn down the heat indoors without electricity by drawing on the cold depths of space. The new technology, a…

Company plans to help employees access a full range of reproductive care in response to the Dobbs v. Jackson Supreme Court ruling, which last summer overturned federal abortion rights, have had mixed results, according to new research…

Two troubling trends are converging for older adults—heavier drinking and rising rates of heart failure—and now University of Maryland public health researchers will explore whether they are linked.Funded by a $406,000 grant from the…

Two University of Maryland students today were named recipients of the Voyager Scholarship, created last year by former U.S. President and first lady Barack and Michelle Obama, along with Airbnb Co-founder and CEO Brian Chesky, to help…

The National Science Foundation (NSF) today announced it has awarded a $1 million, three-year grant to a UMD-led multi-institutional team working to overcome barriers to further progress in quantum sensors, which offer more advanced…

If you’ve ever started talking without knowing exactly how you’ll finish a sentence, then you’re familiar with the conveyor belt-like process of the human brain producing speech: Your brain finds the correct words, arranges them in order,…

While federal law allows employers to pay many people with disabilities less than half the national minimum wage, a new five-year, $6.2 million grant is supporting University of Maryland education researchers’ work to create a pipeline to…