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Rita Colwell, a Distinguished University Professor in the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies,

A new study shows that medium-sized predators all but disappeared late in dinosaur historywherever Tyrannosaurus rex and its close relatives rose to dominance. In those areas—lands that eventually became central Asia and Western North America—juvenile tyrannosaurs stepped in to fill the missing ecological niche previously held by other carnivores.

Alicia Kollár standing next to a dilution refrigerator in her lab. (Credit: Alicia Kollár) JQI Fellow Alicia Kollár has received a prestigious Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for a proposal aimed at developing a new window into the physics of particles interacting inside of materials and performing educational outreach. The award will provide $675,000 of funding over five years for her proposal titled “Engineering Interacting Photons in Superconducting-Circuit Lattices.”