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Making a Weed Meet Vital Needs
Typha, also known as cattails, is an invasive weed that can crowd out other species, invade farm fields and clog waterways (below) in Nigeria. A team featuring a University of Maryland researcher devised methods of using the plant for animal feed and clean-burning fuel. (Photos courtesy of the Typha Project Team, University of Maryland)
Dr. Quynh Nguyen Awarded $3.3M NIH Grant, Will Use Twitter Data to Characterize Racial Climate Across US
Dr. Quynh Nguyen, an assistant professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, has received a $3.3 million RO1 grant from the National Institutes of Health for the project Risk and Strength: Determining the Impact of Area-Level Racial Bias and Protective Factors on Birth Outcomes. Nguyen, who is a co-investigator on the project led by Dr. Thu Nguyen, said the grant will use data from Twitter to characterize the racial climate across the United States.
Bhatele Receives NSF CAREER Award to Optimize Parallel Software and Systems
A University of Maryland expert in high performance computing (HPC) has received a National Science Foundation award to develop innovative methods for optimizing the performance of parallel applications and runtimes, and the operational efficiency of supercomputers and HPC clusters.
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