Prof. Brandon Donahue's latest solo exhibition opens March 11th in Philly - Meet the artist at the gallery on March 11th from 5-7:30pm. Press release below:

In a new paper published to high impact journal Global Environmental Change, GEOG researchers Dr. Kuishuang Feng, Dr. Shunlin Liang, Dr. Laixiang Sun, and Dr. Dongdong Wang, and Former GEOG visiting scholar Dr.

This month, the Inter-American Defense Board (IADB) conducted a disaster response planning exercise based on its Mechanism for Cooperation in Disasters (MECODE) using the ICONSnet simulation platform run by START’s ICONS Project.

It’s not that anyone doubted Russian President Vladimir Putin’s willingness to roll his nation’s armed forces into another country, as he’d done in Georgia in 2008 and Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula in 2014. But the world remained in shock five days after Russia’s nationwide assault on one of Europe’s largest countries, with one question reverberating: Why?

The University of Maryland was named a 2021-22 top-producing institution for the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program, according to rankings published Monday in The Chronicle of Higher Education.

Extracting insights from massive datasets in order to answer questions and make decisions — this is the primary objective of data science. Deriving clarity from noise. The resulting communication of these insights often involves the production of data visualizations – shifting our focus from numerical values to graphical elements in order to facilitate understanding. However, not everyone has access to these data visualizations, and this barrier impedes Blind students who seek to pursue the field of data science. 

From fighting emerging disease outbreaks to addressing gun violence and seeking solutions to opioid addiction, a slate of newly funded joint projects involving researchers from the University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP) and University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) promises to tackle the grand challenges of our time.

The University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) Department of Neurosurgery and the University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP) Fischell Department of Bioengineering (BIOE) awarded the inaugural Neuro-Link program grant to a team of UMB/UMCP researchers who are working to develop a novel technique to treat glioblastoma (GBM), the deadliest and most common type of adult brain cancer.