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A project led by Prof. Min Wang in the Department of Human Development and Quantitative Methodology within the University of Maryland's College of Education is examining the relationship between socioeconomic status (SES), statistical learning (an intrinsic cognitive skill to detect probabilistic cues from environment), and reading development using a rigorous, two-wave longitudinal design among native Chinese-speaking children spanning ages 8–9 years.

In order to facilitate large-scale deployment of renewable energy on the U.S. power grid, batteries are essential to ensure consistent power supply. In the meantime, there are costs for both generators and batteries to be connected to the U.S. power grid, known as interconnection costs, which are high in places lacking grid infrastructure and hard to connect to the power grid. 

A University of Maryland Grand Challenges Grant is supporting research by Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Cecilia Huertas Cerdeira aimed at developing on-board energy harvesting for Earth observation unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).