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$2M NIH Grant Will Help Develop a New Defense Against Viral ‘Hijackers’
A University of Maryland researcher has received $2 million from the National Institutes of Health to study a new method to combat a large, diverse group of viruses that can cause everything from stomach flu and rashes to polio and hand foot and mouth disease. There are no effective medical treatments for enteroviruses, in large part because they are very good at developing resistance to therapeutics, but Associate Professor George Belov in the Department of Veterinary Medicine is working to counter this ability.
Linda Zou Receives National Science Foundation’s Most Prestigious Early-Career Faculty Award
Linda Zou, an assistant professor in the University of Maryland’s Department of Psychology, has been awarded one of the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) most prestigious awards for early-career academic faculty members, a Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) award.
$1M NSF Grant Supports Project to Create Data-Literate Citizens
A $1 million NSF CAREER grant will support a University of Maryland researcher’s work to develop a data science curriculum for high school seniors in District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS).
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