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   [UMD Researchers Help Children Improve Language Skills With $3.3M Department of Education Grant](https://umdrightnow.umd.edu/news-releases/umd-researchers-help-children-improve-language-skills-33m-department-education-grant)

 Aug 14, 2017 UMD researchers use $3.3M Department of Education grant to test program designed to help children more easily shift between informal and formal English dialects. 

   [UMD President Wallace D. Loh Statement on August 12, 2017 Violence in Charlottesville](https://umdrightnow.umd.edu/news-releases/umd-president-wallace-d-loh-statement-august-12-2017-violence-charlottesville)

 Aug 12, 2017   [NSF Funds $1.2 M in UMD Work on Neural Engineering of Complex Behaviors](https://umdrightnow.umd.edu/news-releases/nsf-funds-12-m-umd-work-neural-engineering-complex-behaviors)

 Aug 10, 2017 Three University of Maryland engineers have been awarded new National Science Foundation (NSF) grants to research how human neural and cognitive systems interact and intersect with advances in engineering, computer science and education. 

   [UMD Researchers Discover Link Between Regular Energy Drink Use and Later Drug Use Among Young Adults](https://umdrightnow.umd.edu/news-releases/umd-researchers-discover-link-between-regular-energy-drink-use-and-later-drug-use-among-young)

 Aug 8, 2017 Study results show that energy drink users might be at heightened risk for other substance use, particularly stimulants. 

   [UMD Scientists Find First Clear Evidence of an Upper Level Atmosphere on an Exoplanet](https://umdrightnow.umd.edu/news-releases/umd-scientists-find-first-clear-evidence-upper-level-atmosphere-exoplanet)

 Aug 7, 2017 Distant “hot Jupiter” has a glowing water stratosphere hot enough to boil iron 

   [University of Maryland Strategic Partnership Breaks Ground on Research and Academics at Cole Field House](https://umdrightnow.umd.edu/news-releases/university-maryland-strategic-partnership-breaks-ground-research-and-academics-cole-field-house)

 Aug 4, 2017 Key partners gathered to celebrate state-of-the art facility that will bring research, innovation, athletics and clinical practice under one roof. 

   [University of Maryland Statement on August 3, 2017 Death of Contract Construction Worker](https://umdrightnow.umd.edu/news-releases/university-maryland-statement-august-3-2017-death-contract-construction-worker)

 Aug 3, 2017   [Four UMD Students Awarded 2017 Hollings Scholarship](https://umdrightnow.umd.edu/news-releases/four-umd-students-awarded-2017-hollings-scholarship)

 Jul 31, 2017 Award provides up to $19,000 toward tuition, plus paid internship. 

   [UMD, UMB Offer First Look into New Cole Field House](https://umdrightnow.umd.edu/news-releases/umd-umb-offer-first-look-new-cole-field-house)

 Jul 31, 2017 UMD strategic partnership breaks ground on research and academic spaces, celebrates dedication of completed indoor practice field. 

   [Gamma-ray Burst Captured in Unprecedented Detail](https://umdrightnow.umd.edu/news-releases/gamma-ray-burst-captured-unprecedented-detail)

 Jul 28, 2017 UMD-led team uses data from multiple telescopes to address long-standing questions about the universe’s most powerful explosions.