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UMD to Lead $15M Project Investigating the Role of Aerosols in Flu Transmission
A quarantined participant in a flu virus transmission study breathes into a machine developed by UMD Professor Don Milton to measure virus content in breath. The trial took place in 2013 at the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom.
U.S. News Ranks UMD No. 20 Among Top Public Institutions
U.S. News & World Report ranked UMD No. 20 among the top public universities and No. 59 among national universities in its new ratings released today. Photo by Stephanie S. Cordle The University of Maryland continues to rank among the top public schools in the nation, according to new ratings released today by U.S. News & World Report.
We Are What We [M]eat
With many researchers saying that COVID-19 most likely reached humans through bats—a transmission pattern similar to what took place with H1NI, the “swine flu,” nearly a decade prior—one Department of Geographical Sciences professor wonders: Would we be where we are today if our society were less reliant on meat?
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Faculty Honored With Independent Scholarship, Research and Creativity Awards
