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The University of Maryland (UMD) recently received $1.5 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to explore copper’s role in your body’s adaptive response to the cold, which is likely connected to your metabolism and fat burning abilities. Byung-Eun Kim, associate professor in the Department of Animal and Avian Sciences at UMD and lead investigator on this grant, studies the importance of copper and copper transport routes for the health of humans and animals alike.

While images of massive walls of fire in the Western United States are dominating the news during yet another summer, the leading cause of property destruction is vastly smaller: wind-blown, quarter-size embers called “firebrands” that charge miles ahead of wildfires, collect on roofs or nest in eaves, and under the right conditions, ignite.

With engineering labs at his back and tussles over trillions of dollars taking place on Capitol Hill, Secretary of State Antony Blinken argued at the University of Maryland on August 9 that maintaining the nation’s status as a leader abroad will require dramatic new investments at home.