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COLLEGE PARK, Md. – Brian O’Neill – an Earth systems scientist who studies the relationship between future societal development, emissions and climate change impacts – has been named the new director of the Joint Global Change Research Institute (JGCRI).

A new paper released today in Nature Energy evaluates the co-damages from air pollution and finds that on top of direct health risks, air pollution increases electricity consumption.

A University of Maryland expert in algorithms and high-performance computing has been funded by Google to develop computational techniques to improve contact tracing methods in the wake of COVID-19, research that could ultimately provide fundamental new insights into how epidemics can be controlled.