Ariel Bierbaum, assistant professor of urban and community planning in the School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, said racial and socioeconomic segregation have cemented disadvantages that are visible in schools' infrastructure.(Photo by N Giovannucci/Creative Commons)

NASA’s InSight mission landed a probe on Mars in November 2018 with instrumentation to gather the first direct measurements of ground vibrations, known as seismic waves, from the red planet. An international team of researchers, including several from the University of Maryland’s Department of Geology, conducted the first comprehensive review of the data. They determined the red planet has a larger molten core and a less dense crust than previously estimated. The results were published in three papers in the journal Science on July 23, 2021.

Mircea Raianu's new book, "Tata: The Global Corporation That Built Indian Capitalism," tells the story of a small business that, over 150 years, had both struggles and success as it grew to become one of the most powerful companies in India.

Researchers at the College of Education received a $577K grant to study how teacher recruitment programs contribute to diversifying the teacher workforce. The U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences provided funding for the 3-year project.

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A new book “Contemporary Kinetic Theory of Matter” written by J. R. Dorfman, Henk van Beijeren, and T. R. Kirkpatrick, was published by Cambridge University Press, June, 2021.

Supporters of Palestine gather in Washington, D.C., to protest the Gaza violence in May. A new UMD Critical Issues Poll shows the White House's pro-Israel response was out of step with the beliefs of some Democrats, especially those ages 18-34.(Photo by Yasin Ozturk/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

A University of Maryland Information Sciences Invention of the Year, the Cyber Aptitude and Talent Assessment, has been launched by Haystack Solutions, a UMD startup. This new cybersecurity aptitude assessment helps to match professionals with vital roles in cybersecurity.

With engineering labs at his back and tussles over trillions of dollars taking place on Capitol Hill, Secretary of State Antony Blinken argued at the University of Maryland on August 9 that maintaining the nation’s status as a leader abroad will require dramatic new investments at home.

While images of massive walls of fire in the Western United States are dominating the news during yet another summer, the leading cause of property destruction is vastly smaller: wind-blown, quarter-size embers called “firebrands” that charge miles ahead of wildfires, collect on roofs or nest in eaves, and under the right conditions, ignite.