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.

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 University of Maryland and IonQ, a leading developer of quantum computing devices, are teaming up to provide $300,000 in funding for projects designed to advance discoveries in quantum science and aid in developing a skilled quantum computing workforce for the future.

There is nothing permanent except change. This is perhaps never truer than in the fickle and fluctuating world of quantum mechanics. The quantum world is in constant flux. The properties of quantum particles flit between discrete, quantized states without any possibility of ever being found in an intermediate state. How quantum states change defies normal intuition and remains the topic of active debate—for both scientists and philosophers.

On Friday, Feb. 25, Olympus joined the University of Maryland (UMD) in celebrating the grand opening of its new Olympus Discovery Center. 

For days, architect Larysa Kurylas ’80 had weighed her safety working in Kyiv against the advice of her American ex-pat and Ukrainian friends who were skeptical of a Russian advance on the capital. But in the early hours of Feb. 11, unable to sleep in her apartment, she tuned into “PBS NewsHour” and learned of the rising possibility of President Vladimir Putin ordering an invasion. Within hours, she had a train ticket to Lviv—40 kilometers from the Polish border—the fate of her parents’ home country, many friends and her research all uncertain. 

Days after the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its most urgent warning yet about the impacts of human-induced climate change, the California-China Climate Institute (CCCI) at UC Berkeley and the Center for Global Sustainability (CGS) at the University of Maryland today released a groundbreaking new report – “A Decade of Action: A Strategic Approach for a Coal Phase-Down in China” – tha

What’s going on in Ukraine isn’t a war or an invasion. It’s merely an “operation.”

A new $2.5 million National Science Foundation grant will support University of Maryland-led research on how family-school collaborations that build on the strengths of multilingual families and teachers might improve math learning for multilingual students.

The University of Maryland has announced seven New Directions awards to support research across the College Park campus. The projects span a broad range of disciplines and topics, ranging from the documentation of community heritage to the discovery of atomic catalysts.