EnTERPrise Magazine

Imagine a future where 3-D printing is done in the back of a truck instead of a factory or a lab. The same truck is driverless, eliminating the risk of drivers getting tired and causing delays or accidents en route. The truck custom prints the product for each of the many customers on the truck route at the exact time when it arrives at each customer site. Companies are now at the forefront of testing such ventures, according to a new article by Maryland Smith’s Zhi-Long Chen.

A dynamic second act for the largest performance hall in the Southeastern United States earned a team of University of Maryland graduate students top honors—and a $20,000 first-place prize—in the ninth annual Innovation in Affordable Housing Student Design and Planning Competition sponsored by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).

Artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms help make online shopping seamless, calculate credit scores, navigate vehicles and even offer judges criminal sentencing guidelines. But as the use of AI increases exponentially, so does the concern that biased data can result in flawed decisions or prejudiced outcomes.

A University of Maryland researcher has received $2 million from the National Institutes of Health to study a new method to combat a large, diverse group of viruses that can cause everything from stomach flu and rashes to polio and hand foot and mouth disease. There are no effective medical treatments for enteroviruses, in large part because they are very good at developing resistance to therapeutics, but Associate Professor George Belov in the Department of Veterinary Medicine is working to counter this ability.

Senior Vice President and Provost Jennifer King Rice and Vice President for Research Gregory F. Ball sent the following email to the campus community today:

For Hartley Carlson ’23, one of the best ways to learn science is to draw it.   While working abroad as a doctor’s assistant in cardiology and radiology a few years ago, the studio art major, who is also on a pre-med track, found that making medical illustrations of the complex forms and shapes of the human body helped him to digest the material. It also resulted in beautiful artwork. 

COLLEGE PARK – “Printing Hate,” an unprecedented collaborative project led by the University of Maryland’s Howard Center for Investigative Journalism, on Wednesday was awarded one of two medals issued to exemplary projects by the organization Investigative Reporters & Editors.

Linda Zou, an assistant professor in the University of Maryland’s Department of Psychology, has been awarded one of the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) most prestigious awards for early-career academic faculty members, a Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) award. 

Caring for young children is tough work, full of stressors and challenges that even the best equipped parents struggle with. Young mothers with a history of being abused or neglected as children must cope with their trauma, the uncertainties of young adulthood and the constant demands inherent in caring for small children.