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The University of Maryland’s world-renowned quantum enterprise was front and center throughout today on a series of segments on CNBC. Correspondents with the cable financial news network spoke to some of UMD’s hundreds of quantum scientists and engineers, interviewed President Darryll J. Pines, toured labs and the Discovery District and delved into a new business environment where a leading quantum computing company based on UMD breakthroughs—IonQ—is making waves. Original article by Maryland Today Staff

The University of Maryland is joining with the other policy schools in the Big Ten Conference to launch “Democracy in the 21st Century,” a collaboration to promote active civic education and engagement. This initiative harnesses the diverse assets of the Big Ten community to develop educational programming for students, faculty, staff and local communities, and will culminate in an in-person conference hosted by UMD in Fall 2022.

While House Speaker Nancy Pelosi declared at global climate talks in Glasgow this week that “America is back” and politically ready to lead the world again on climate change, University of Maryland researchers have long been a consistent presence in an international effort to stem a disaster.