University of Maryland

In a famous neuroscience experiment, it takes participants nearly twice as long to identify the color in which a word is written if there’s a color “clash”—for example, to say “red” when the color is used to spell “green”—as it does when…

A new roadmap for the future development of the University of Maryland campus takes its cues from the institution’s earliest beginnings, envisioning a compact academic center surrounded by residential and recreational facilities and…

A University of Maryland researcher is leading a new pilot project aimed at making mathematics departments a more welcoming space for staff, faculty and students from all backgrounds, supported by a $600,000 grant from the National…

Drugs used to treat heart and kidney failure were among a dozen medicines that Pfizer had to limit to emergency orders after a July tornado ripped through Rocky Mount, N.C., injuring 12 and devastating one of the pharmaceutical company’s…

The University of Maryland ranks No. 13 among the nation’s best public schools, according to Forbes magazine’s 2023 Top Colleges.The university climbed one spot in that list from last year and jumped six places among all U.S.…

After winning 22 of the last 24 outings, it would have been big news if University of Maryland graduate students hadn’t been victorious in the Vertical Flight Society’s annual Student Design Competition. The team from the Alfred Gessow…

A University of Maryland researcher is leading a pair of new National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded projects to deploy advanced sensors to better understand how climate change is affecting ice—and the water quality beneath—near the…

If you want to know the current temperature at the University of Maryland, you may need to get a little more specific: On one recent Wednesday afternoon, it was 75.6 degrees outside of the Atlantic Building, but a balmier 77.3 degrees at…

You’d never hand over your phone to strangers, but University of Maryland security experts have discovered that law enforcement agencies are instead selling the devices to them, still packed with personal and financial information.Their…

In the early 1970s, the FBI began surveilling a potential new threat to national security: an extremist group labeled “armed and dangerous” by agency officials in internal memos. The handful of women targeted by the agency didn’t carry…