HuMetricsHSS Initiative Receives $650,000 Mellon Grant
Michigan State University has received a $650,000 grant from The Andrew W.
UMD Wins $5M Phase 2 NSF Convergence Accelerator Award
The National Science Foundation (NSF) announced today a $5 million, two-year award to a multi-institutional team led by the University of Maryland to develop quantum interconnects for ion trap quantum computers.
A New Vision for Violin Instruction
Students learning classical violin usually have to wait until a session with a music teacher to get personalized feedback on their playing. Soon they may have a new tool to use between lessons: an app that can observe them play and guide them toward better posture and form—key elements both for sounding their best and avoiding overuse injuries.
Liangbing Hus HighT-Tech Wins 2021 Spinoff Prize
HighT-Tech, a University of Maryland (UMD) start-up company started by Liangbing Hu – materials science and engineering professor and director of the Center for Materials Innovation – has won The Spinoff Prize 2021.
Amitabh Varshney Named Interim Vice President for Research
University President Darryll J. Pines sent the following email to campus administrators on September 23, 2021:
Professors Longtime Archaeological Site Dedicated in Virginia
Virginia Governor Ralph Northam (left) and Professor Donald Linebaugh (right) joined members of the Bolling, Eppes and Heretick families last week to unveil a historic mark
The State of Spanish in the DMV
The flags of many nations that contribute to the Washington, D.C., area’s Spanish-speaking population are reflected in jerseys and dresses for sale at Fiesta D.C., an annual Hispanic heritage festival. A National Endowment for the Humanities grant is funding UMD research into the varieties of Spanish spoken in the region. Photo courtesy of GPA Photo Archive, U.S. Department of State
Op/ed: An Industry That Will Change the World
The UMD contingent joining IonQ officials at the New York Stock Exchange Friday for the ceremonial opening bell-ringing included Vice President for Legal Affairs and General Counsel Mike Poterala (left), President Darryll J. Pines, College Park Professor of physics and IonQ co-founder and chief scientist Chris Monroe and Chief Strategy Officer for Economic Development Ken Ulman.
UMD’s Tunnel-Boring Engineers Showcase Skills, Perseverance
In September, following months of rigorous preparation, the UMD Loop team traveled to Las Vegas to compete in the Not-A-Boring competition, organized by Elon Musk’s The Boring Company. Once there, they worked long days and late nights to get their TBM, comprising more than 4,000 parts and weighing several tons in total, into final shape before competition day.
University of Maryland Receives Two IARPA RESILIENCE Awards
The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), the research and development arm of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, announced a multi-year research effort called the Robust Energy Sources for Intelligence Logistics In Extreme, Novel and Challenging Environments (RESILIENCE) program. The goal of the RESILIENCE program is to assure maximum power source reliability in extreme conditions (often for years) where recharging is not possible.