When non-native plants and animals find a foothold in new territories where they don’t naturally live, they can cause severe economic and ecological damage. Known as invasive species, they’re difficult to control, and pose major challenges everywhere around the world. Now, a new study suggests that looking at invasions spreading across landscapes as networked systems—with patches or regions of habitat as nodes connected by pathways for invasions to spread—could improve management strategies in large, complex ecosystems and in cases where data is limited.

Interns from a range of disciplines and across the country visited ARLIS last week to share the findings and outputs of their 10-week Research for Intelligence and Security Challenges (RISC) Initiative project with government sponsors, ARLIS researchers, and their RISC intern peers. RISC began in 2020 to introduce students to career opportunities within the Department of Defense and Intelligence Communities. They develop technical capabilities addressing real-world problems posed by government operators and supported with realistic data sets and other materials.

Michel Cukier, professor of reliability engineering at the University of Maryland (UMD), is co-PI on a $9 million, multi-institutional National Science Foundation (NSF) grant that supports research on the technical challenges involved in software supply chain security, as well as initiatives to foster greater diversity in the software industry.

A $1.6 million award from the Maryland State Department of Education (MSDE) will fund a University of Maryland study on the effectiveness of its outreach to students with disabilities who are preparing for future employment, training or college. The College of Education’s Center for Transition and Career Innovation (CTCI) will over two years evaluate MDSE’s pre-employment transition services program including its outreach efforts and methods of communication, and to develop a new model for assessing and delivering those services.

Restoration goals for the Chesapeake Bay cannot be realized overnight; it takes years of coordination, cooperation, and compromise to induce the changes needed to positively affect water quality.

Whether it’s worrying you’ll get called on the carpet at work or school, wondering if a monster is about materialize on the latest episode of “Stranger Things” or feeling nervous about the outcome of an upcoming election, sometimes not knowing if something bad is going to happen can feel almost as disturbing as the thing itself. A new University of Maryland study funded by a $3.9 million award from the National Institute of Mental Health aims to understand why that's the case by exploring the role of uncertainty in feelings of alarm and apprehension.

It’s hard to envision a time when computers didn’t more or less disappear into beige office landscapes or pile up, obsolete in closets like increasingly ancient geological strata. The technological behemoths that Franz Klein works with, however, still evoke a twinge of dawn-of-the-space-age wonder.

The University of Maryland (UMD) and its faculty scholars were recognized among Research.com's 2022 rankings of Top Scientists and Top Universities. Over 400 UMD-affiliated researchers were included among the Top Scientists in the nation and the world across Research.com’s 24 academic discipline categories, and UMD was listed among the Top Universities in the U.S. and globally in every category.