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An interdisciplinary team of University of Maryland (UMD) students has landed a hard-earned spot as one of the “Digging Dozen” finalists in the first-ever Not-a-Boring Competition, hosted by Elon Musk’s The Boring Company.

A team of spatial audio experts in the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS) were recently awarded $270K in research funding from Nail Gumerov and professor of computer science Ramani Duraiswami will use the funding to better model and troubleshoot 2D and 3D audio technologies.

The Center for Research and Exploration in Space Science & Technology II (CRESST II), a partnership between NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and four universities—led by researchers at the University of Maryland, College Park’s (UMD) Department of Astronomy—has received an extension of its cooperative agreement through March 2027 and been funded in the amount of $178 million.