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The National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded its Director’s New Innovator Award to University of Maryland Biology Assistant Professor Colenso Speer.

While deep learning is an increasingly popular form of artificial intelligence used in products and services that impact hundreds of millions of lives—it’s deployed in robots, driverless cars and systems that decide who should go to jail and who should get a credit card—no one quite understands how it actually works.

In tests last month, research corneas and a research kidney were successfully delivered by drone between medical facilities in the Las Vegas area. Ryan Henderson (below, left) and Anthony Pucciarella (right) were part of a groundbreaking flight in 2019 to carry a kidney to a patient at a hospital in Baltimore; today they work for MissionGO, the drone delivery company that carried out the Las Vegas testing.(Las Vegas test photo by Phenola Lawrence (REQ). Used by permission. Baltimore flight photo (below) courtesy of University of Maryland Medical Center.)