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In a decade or less, an instrument now being developed by a University of Maryland research team might just motor over to a rock on the moon, extend a sensor and get a real-time chemical analysis that could one day assist humans in exploring the lunar landscape for the first time since 1972. The project aims to create a miniaturized mass spectrometer and is supported by a new $3.2 million grant from NASA’s Development and Advancement of Lunar Instrumentation program.

The U.S. House and Senate are working to pass major science and innovation legislation that would authorize significant funding increases and create new research programs and research center opportunities through federal science agencies such as the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science, the Department of Defense (DOD), and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), among others.  The Senate passed the U.S.

A $1.4 million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will support a University of Maryland-led study to assess the impact of a nationwide move to make the SAT and ACT tests optional for college admissions, or to eliminate their use altogether. Associate Professor of Education Julie J. Park and colleagues will examine whether higher education institutions’ swift moves to alter their admissions processes in response to the global COVID-19 pandemic improved college access or equity for different student populations.