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In November of 2021, University of Maryland, College Park President Darryll J. Pines and University of Maryland, Baltimore President Bruce E. Jarrell named eight professors as the inaugural MPower Professors. This award from the University of Maryland Strategic Partnership: MPowering the State (MPower) recognizes, incentivizes, and fosters faculty collaborations between the College Park and Baltimore campuses. 

Interns from a range of disciplines and across the country visited ARLIS last week to share the findings and outputs of their 10-week Research for Intelligence and Security Challenges (RISC) Initiative project with government sponsors, ARLIS researchers, and their RISC intern peers. RISC began in 2020 to introduce students to career opportunities within the Department of Defense and Intelligence Communities. They develop technical capabilities addressing real-world problems posed by government operators and supported with realistic data sets and other materials.

Whether it’s worrying you’ll get called on the carpet at work or school, wondering if a monster is about materialize on the latest episode of “Stranger Things” or feeling nervous about the outcome of an upcoming election, sometimes not knowing if something bad is going to happen can feel almost as disturbing as the thing itself. A new University of Maryland study funded by a $3.9 million award from the National Institute of Mental Health aims to understand why that's the case by exploring the role of uncertainty in feelings of alarm and apprehension.