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  • START Team Identifies Key Contributors to Effective Influence Operations

    Earlier this month, researchers from START’s Unconventional Weapons and Technology (UWT) division—Megan Rutter, Rhyner Washburn and UWT Director Dr.

  • Women's Work

    Over 16,000 women served overseas during World War I. Yet as Armistice Day marked the war’s final chapter, the stories of women who sacrificed—in overseas hospitals or as wives and mothers back home—were destined to become footnotes. More than a century later, a University of Maryland graduate is rewriting that narrative, revealing the grassroots efforts spearheaded by women of the WWI generation to honor this service, not carved in marble statuary, but through community service and advocacy and in hospitals and respite houses.

  • Making Moves to Counter Misinformation

    While the world contended with a pandemic, social media platforms and other sources spewed billions of misleading health messages at users—more than 3.8 billion times on Facebook over the course of a year, according to one study—a dynamic that University of Maryland researchers and their colleagues say can lead to adverse public health outcomes ranging from mistrust in reliable information sources to deaths from disease.


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Veteran Scientist, Administrator Named Vice President for Research for University of Maryland’s Joint Research Enterprise

Pat O’Shea to Oversee Annual $1.4B in Research Activities at College Park, Baltimore Campuses
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AI With Rhythm: Brain-Inspired Tech Wins 2025 Invention of the Year Award

From RNA to Microchips, Innovate Maryland Celebrates Transformative Research Shaping the Future
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10 Faculty Receive UMD Independent Scholarship, Research, and Creativity Awards

Grants to Support Individual Projects in Arts, AI, Architecture and More
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