Innovation @ UMD
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January 24 UMD-led Study Named Most Impactful Paper Published in the Journal Science in 2019 American Association for the Advancement of Science awards Newcomb Cleveland prize to study of transgenic fungus designed to control malaria-carrying mosquito populations in West Africa. Read |
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January 3 UMD Part of New U.S. Alliance for Quantum Information The U.S. has launched the Quantum Information Edge alliance to advance quantum computing R&D for breakthrough science. Read |
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December 4 New Report Sets Keys to Success for Maryland Clean Energy Economy Comprehensive report on the future of clean energy innovation in Maryland delivered to Governor Hogan Read |
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December 3 Two University of Maryland Engineers Named 2019 Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors New fellows are latest of six UMD faculty recognized by NAI for ‘prolific spirit of innovation’ Read |
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November 29 UMD-Led Team Creates Novel Material that Potentially Offers an Efficient, Eco-Friendly Advance in Cooling Technology Work by UMD’s Ichiro Takeuchi and team to create novel green cooling material is featured in the journal Science Read |
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November 27 Two UMD Scientists Named Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Ellen D. Williams, Distinguished University Professor of Physics and John R. Townshend, Research Professor/Emeritus Professor of Geographical Sciences named 2019 AAAS Fellows Read |
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November 11 Study Reveals How Two Strains of One Bacterium Combine to Cause Flesh-Eating Infection An international team including University of Maryland scientists revealed how genetic variations in a single species of bacteria can amplify infection. Read |
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October 7 Rare “Lazarus Superconductivity” Observed in Promising, Rediscovered Material In a uranium-based compound once dismissed as uninteresting, scientists watched superconductivity arise, disappear, then return under the influence of high magnetic fields Read |
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September 10 UMD Scientists Discover Hidden Differences May Help Cells Evade Drug Therapy The discovery suggests “functional mosaicism” could explain some antibiotic resistance and cancer relapse Read |
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August 22 University of Maryland Launches Quantum Technology Center The new research center will catalyze the development of high-impact quantum technologies |
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August 7 Seeing How Computers ‘Think’ When Answering Questions Can Lead to More Intelligent Machines Say UMD Researchers University of Maryland researchers created 1,213 questions in collaboration with computers to identify flaws in machine-learning language models Read |
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August 5 UMD Researchers Are Awarded $1.5M Grant to Understand Social Media Information Campaigns Read |
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July 31 University of Maryland-Phillips Collection Book Prize Goes to 'Sculpture at the Ends of Slavery' Winning manuscript by Caitlin Beach addresses sculpture’s relationship to slavery and abolition in transatlantic contexts Read |
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July 24 Scientists Identify New Genetic Interactions that May Impact Cancer Outcomes UMD and NCI researchers find 2 distinct relationships between gene pairs in tumor cells that could potentially be targeted for cancer therapy Read |
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June 14 UMD Joins the Race to Create Universal Flu Vaccine, Supported by New $3.1 Million NIH Grant Read |
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