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UMD Study Finds Black Offenders More Likely than White Offenders to be Eligible for Life Sentences
A recent study published in Criminology by researchers at the University of Maryland and at Arizona State University (ASU) finds that Black and Hispanic offenders were more likely to be eligible for life sentences under federal sentencing guidelines, but not more likely to receive life sentences.
Wu Part of $7.5M MURI Award to Develop a Scalable Quantum Random Access Memory Architecture
A University of Maryland expert on quantum computing is part of a multi-institutional team awarded $7.5 million by the U.S.
Successive COVID-19 Variants Becoming More Airborne, Researchers Find
New findings in a UMD-led study show that COVID-19 has evolved to become more easily transmitted through the air. Illustration by iStock Compared to people infected with the original form of the virus that causes COVID-19, those with a more recent strain exhaled 43 to 100 times more of it into the air, indicating that the disease is evolving to become more airborne, according to a new University of Maryland-led study.
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