Grand Challenges: Market Design, Energy Storage, and Interconnection to the U.S. Power Grid
Grand Challenges: Role of Mitochondria Dynamics in Opioid Addiction
Grand Challenges: Relating Attitudes on Democracy to Attitudes on Race and Ethnicity
Grand Challenges: Climate Mitigation and Land-Use
Detection and Monitoring of Second-Generation Biofuel Crops in the USA
Grand Challenges: Establishing a Role for Psilocybin in Frontal Lobe Function
Grand Challenges: Human Rights Politics and Policies: Lessons from Latin America
Grand Challenges: Digital Equity Mapping Research and Training Program
Discovering a digital biomarker for post-stroke cognitive problems
In recent years, preemptively removing blood clots from inside arteries and veins using a surgical technique called thrombectomy has significantly improved outcomes for people who otherwise might have experienced major strokes.
College of Education Experts Testify to Bring Bilingual Teacher Certification to Maryland
More than 90,000 multilingual English learners attend schools in the state of Maryland, according to the Maryland State Department of Education. Dual language programs—in which both multilingual English learners and primary English speakers learn academic content in both English and another language—help students cultivate strengths and position them for success. Although dual language programs are on the rise in Maryland, these programs face a shortage of qualified bilingual teachers.
UMD’s DeVoe Pioneers New Approach to Liposome Production
Small artificial vesicles known as liposomes are used widely as nanoscale drug carriers in treatment of cancer and immune diseases, as well as in vaccine delivery and other applications, in large part because of their ability to protect medication from being degraded as it courses through a patient’s body.