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A new book “Contemporary Kinetic Theory of Matter” written by J. R. Dorfman, Henk van Beijeren, and T. R. Kirkpatrick, was published by Cambridge University Press, June, 2021.

Researchers at the College of Education received a $577K grant to study how teacher recruitment programs contribute to diversifying the teacher workforce. The U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences provided funding for the 3-year project.

NASA’s InSight mission landed a probe on Mars in November 2018 with instrumentation to gather the first direct measurements of ground vibrations, known as seismic waves, from the red planet. An international team of researchers, including several from the University of Maryland’s Department of Geology, conducted the first comprehensive review of the data. They determined the red planet has a larger molten core and a less dense crust than previously estimated. The results were published in three papers in the journal Science on July 23, 2021.