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HighT-Tech, a University of Maryland (UMD) start-up company started by Liangbing Hu – materials science and engineering professor and director of the Center for Materials Innovation – has won The Spinoff Prize 2021.

A $5 million NSF grant is funding a UMD-led project to develop the hardware necessary to connect ion trap quantum computers and deploy the quantum internet.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Climate Prediction Center (CPC) launched a new look and feel to some of their long-range U.S. temperature and precipitation forecast maps on September 15, 2021. As part of the National Weather Service’s suite of official forecast products, these maps are widely used by weather forecasters, media outlets and decision-makers whose industries rely on accurate weather information. The redesign provides higher image quality and presents weather and climate outlooks in a less confusing, more user-friendly format.