Professor Frauke Kreuter of UMD's Joint Program in Survey Methodology and of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich is a co-author on a new perspective piece inNature that describes how human interactions and social awareness may be able to fill in gaps where surveys and other scientific analyses of human behavior fall short.

A University of Maryland expert in programming languages has received a National Science Foundation (NSF) award to advance the development and maintenance of large and evolving software verification projects that use proof assistants. Proof assistants are software tools to assist in proofs—formal verification—of complex mathematical equations used in computing.

Financial institutions should be accounting for climate change, but risk models currently are insufficient for regulators to mandate climate stress testing or capital requirements, Maryland Smith’s Clifford Rossi said this week, speaking to the Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Financial Institutions in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Although adult Brood X cicadas are all but gone, the hollow exoskeletons they shed after emerging from the ground in recent months cling to trees, fences and buildings as a reminder of their brief, riotous emergence in our area. Science will understand their lifecycle more clearly when the next generation pops out of the ground in 2038, a UMD entomologist said.(Photo by John T. Consoli)

Ways of the World explores cosmopolitanism as it emerged during the Restoration and the role theater played in both memorializing and satirizing its implications and consequences. This spring, Laura J. Rosenthal released her newest work with Cornell Press: Ways of the World: Theater and Cosmopolitanism in the Restoration and Beyond.

The University of Maryland is offering a free UMD I-Corps short course ONLINE this August to innovators and entrepreneurs.

Evidence suggests that what happens in one generation—diet, toxin exposure, trauma, fear—can have lasting effects on future generations. Scientists believe these effects result from epigenetic changes that occur in response to the environment and turn genes on or off without altering the genome or DNA sequence.

A $790,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will fund the creation of a new sculpture at the University of Maryland’s David C. Driskell Center and the identification, cataloging, preservation and digitization of prominent archives in the field of African American art.

The University of Maryland’s Chief Innovation Officer, Julie Lenzer, and UM Ventures’ Senior Innovation Manager, Piotr Kulczakowicz, have authored an article in the new issue of Technology and Innovation, the journal published by the National Academy of Inventors (NAI).

Laurie Locascio, vice president for research, was nominated by the White House to run the National Institute of Standards and Technology, where she worked for decades rising from lab scientist to a top administrator. (Photo by John T. Consoli) President Joe Biden has nominated Laurie Locascio, vice president for research at the University of Maryland, to serve as under secretary for standards and technology in the U.S. Department of Commerce.