University of Maryland COVID-19 Research News

July 2020

• Don Milton Publishes Guide to Understand Infectious Drops and Aerosols (July 27, 2020)
• The Library's Role in Supporting Health Information Justice During COVID-19 (July 23, 2020)
• Mitigating the Risk for Child Maltreatment in the COVID-19 Context (July 21, 2020)
• MTI Data Platform Used Nationally for COVID Response (July 21, 2020)
• Why are Blacks Dying at Higher Rates from COVID-19? (July 20, 2020)
• Failing Wastewater Infrastructure and COVID-19 Transmission (July 16, 2020)
• Researchers Aim to Sterilize N95 Masks for Reuse (July 15, 2020)
• Study of Flu Transmission Provides More Evidence that Respiratory Viruses Spread via Air (July 13, 2020)
• Gen Z, Gender, and COVID-19: New Research by Stella Rouse Examines the Gender Gap in Attitudes About COVID-19 Among Generation Z (July 13, 2020)
• Navigating the "New Normal": A Role for UAS (July 13, 2020)
• Mathematical Modeling During the COVID-19 Pandemic: COE's Gregory Hancock (July 13, 2020)
• University System of Maryland Coronavirus App Competition Showcases Innovative Technology (July 11, 2020)
• Uncovering How COVID-19 Changed Work (July 9, 2020)
• It's Time to Address Airborne Transmission of COVID-19, Dr. Don Milton and 239 Colleagues Urge (July 9, 2020)
• TRACE Center is Leading the Way in Researching and Designing Tools for Digital Accessibility During COVID-19 (July 8, 2020)
• Study Finds Physical Activity Prevents Depression in Older Adults During COVID-19 (July 6, 2020)
• Looking Up: Maryland’s Forests and COVID-19 (July 2, 2020)
• Pandemic’s Cleaner Air Could Reshape What We Know About the Atmosphere (July 2, 2020)
• Quantum Computing: How Conditions Created by the COVID-19 Shutdown Are Delivering ‘The Best Data We Have Ever Seen’ (July 2, 2020)
• Will COVID-19 Lead to “Tighter” Societies? (July 1, 2020)

June 2020

• School of Public Health Seminar Series on the Epidemiology of the COVID-19 Pandemic (June 26, 2020)
• Different Viruses, Similar Outcomes (June 26, 2020)
• Qiu Receives NSF Grant to Study Energy Inequality During the Coronavirus Pandemic (June 25, 2020)
• GAMMA Research Group is Developing Novel COVID-19 Prevention Robots (June 23, 2020)
• Different Viruses, Similar Outcomes: Tracing the Common Thread of Inequality Between Pandemics a Century Apart (June 23, 2020)
• University of Maryland Working with Amazonian Indigenous People in the Time of COVID-19 (June 22, 2020)
• University of Maryland Engineers Respond to COVID-19 (June 21, 2020)
• Emissions, Natural Gas Use Down at University of Maryland Amid COVID-19 Shutdown (June 21, 2020)
• Dinman Fights COVID-19—and Not Just in the Lab (June 17, 2020)
• Jamison Discusses Collision of Anti-Vaccine Movement, Racism And COVID-19 (June 16, 2020)
• Facts about the Stop COVID-19 Study at the School of Public Health (June 15, 2020)
• UMD, UMMS Researchers to Develop More Precise COVID-19 Models (June 15, 2020)
• New Markov Chain Predictive Model Aids COVID-19 Decisionmakers (June 15, 2020)
• Call for Pediatric Medical Device Pitches Focused on COVID-19 (June 12, 2020)
• Examining COVID-19 Social Distancing Effects on Children's Language Development (June 10, 2020)
• Assessing the Social Consequences of COVID-19 (June 10, 2020)
• Researchers Join Forces to Develop New Drugs for Treating COVID-19 (June 8, 2020)
• Research Explores Remote Triage and Rehabilitation During Pandemics via Visual Based Patient Physiologic Sensing (June 4, 2020)
• NSF RAPID Grant Supports Research on Energy-Efficient Disinfection of Viral Bioaerosols in Public Spaces (June 2, 2020)
• Pines, UMD Engineers Help Prince George’s County Reopening Efforts (June 1, 2020)
• Cummings Receives NSF Funding to Improve Analyses of COVID-19 Genomic Data (June 1, 2020)

May 2020

• On a Mission: Tracking COVID-19’s Impact on Air Pollution (May 31, 2020)
• Aerosol Containment Chamber to Make COVID-19 Intubations Safer (May 28, 2020)
• Gelfand: As States Reopen, Tensions Flare Between the Rule Followers and Rule Breakers (May 27, 2020)
• Raschid Receives NSF Funding to Improve Supply Chain Knowledge Networks for COVID-19 Medical Supplies (May 21, 2020)
• Two UMD iSchool Faculty Members Join FAS COVID-19 Task Force (May 21, 2020)
• Researchers Educate and Reverse Misperceptions About COVID-19 Origins, Transmission, and Food Safety (May 20, 2020)
• Researchers Work to Develop Better, Cheaper COVID-19 Tests (May 19, 2020)
• Joining a Nationwide Race, UMD Researchers Search for Treatment, Vaccine for COVID-19 (May 16, 2020)
• Wastewater Testing Could Help Track COVID-19 (May 15, 2020)
• Resnik Receives NSF Funding to Analyze Text Responses in COVID-19 Survey Data (May 13, 2020)
• Researchers Design Mobile COVID-19 Testing Booths (May 13, 2020)
• What Gaming Has Taught Us About the COVID-19 Pandemic (May 13, 2020)
• New Data Shows States Not Meeting Reopening Benchmarks (May 11, 2020)
• University of Maryland Researchers Awarded NSF RAPID Grants to Bolster COVID-19 Response (May 10, 2020)
• UMD Researchers Develop Web Application to Track Progression of COVID-19 (May 9, 2020)
• University System of Maryland Launches COVID-19 Task Force Website (May 8, 2020)
• School of Public Health COVID-19 Resources and Updates (May 9, 2020)
• College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences Coronavirus Stories (May 9, 2020)
• COVID-19 Engineering Solutions: In the News (May 9, 2020)
• Roberts and Colleagues Receive RAPID Grant to Study COVID-19 Risk Perceptions and Behaviors (May 4, 2020)

April 2020

• Communication During Coronavirus (April 30, 2020)
• Forecasting COVID-19: New UMD Research Could Help (April 29, 2020)
• BBI Launches QED ("Quarantine EDucation") Virtual Seminar Series (April 29, 2020)
• Social Distancing: Drop Seen for First Time Since Outbreak (April 28, 2020)
• Maryland Experts, Facebook Partner to Gather Global COVID-19 Symptom Data (April 24, 2020)
• University of Maryland Strategic Partnership to Lead New USM COVID Research & Innovation Task Force (April 23, 2020)
• Computing vs. Pandemics  UMD Researchers Part of $10M NSF Project to Develop Strategies to Thwart Disease Outbreaks (April 23, 2020)
• Origami Inspires COVID-19 Clinic Design (April 23, 2020)
• New Medicine to Prevent Cyberattacks During Pandemic (April 21, 2020)
• Collaborative Study on Public Good Provides Insight Into COVID-19 Pandemic Policies and Recommendations (April 21, 2020)
• Students Launch Platform to Provide Curated COVID-19 Information Directly To Your Phone (April 20, 2020)
• Incubator Hatches COVID-19 Solutions (April 16, 2020)
• Online Series Launched on Understanding and Exploring Network Epidemiology in the Time of Coronavirus (April 15, 2020)
• COVID-19: Researchers Use Location Data to Gauge Impact (April 15, 2020)
• Shelter-in-place Compliance Remains Low, UMD Research Finds (April 13, 2020)
• UMD Researchers Develop Tech Trainings to Educate Retirement Communities Amidst Growing Isolation Concerns (April 12, 2020)
• University of Maryland Facilitates Access to Lifesaving Technologies During COVID-19 Pandemic (April 10, 2020)
• University of Maryland Announces Coronavirus Research Seed Fund Award Recipients (April 9, 2020)
• School of Public Health Mobilizes Community and State Partnerships to Fight COVID-19 (April 7, 2020)
• Making a Difference, One Face Shield Part at a Time (April 3, 2020)
• Wearing Surgical Masks in Public Could Help Slow Pandemic’s Advance, New Study Suggests (April 3, 2020)
• How Data Visualization Helps Us to Approach the COVID-19 Pandemic (April 3, 2020)
• Why Disadvantaged Populations are at Greater Health Risk from COVID-19 and How Libraries are Helping, Despite Closing (April 2, 2020)
• CGIS Students Create Online Maps to Track US COVID-19 Cases by County (April 2, 2020)

March 2020

• In Race With Virus, Researchers Speed Development of Medical Equipment (March 31, 2020)
• Social Media for Public Health: New Website Provides Research Resources to Aid the Fight Against COVID-19 (March 31, 2020)
• UMD Public Health Faculty Experts Inform the Public About COVID-19 (March 31, 2020)
• Public Health Planners: Free Resources for Emergency Health Clinics (March 27, 2020)
• Watch Pandemic Spread on New UMD Maps: Geography Researchers Show Disease Progression Over Space, Time (March 25, 2020)
• Clark School Engineers Create Solutions for a Crisis (March 25, 2020)
• COVID-19 Decision Making Gets a Big Data Boost (March 25, 2020)
• Parenting Through the COVID-19 Pandemic (March 25, 2020)
• Researchers Study COVID-19-related Discrimination Against Chinese Americans (March 5, 2020)

February 2020

• Coronavirus in Perspective: Symposium Shares Information—and Fights Misinformation—About Epidemic (February 21, 2020)

 

 

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