UMD Announces Inventions of the Year Winners, and Celebrates Ventures and Partnerships
Apr 20, 2018
UMD honors exceptional inventions that have the potential to make an important impact on science, society, and the free market.
UMD Researchers Revive Old Chemistry to Create Safer Zinc Battery
Apr 18, 2018
Researchers create a higher-energy, safer and longer-lasting zinc battery.
State, University Officials Celebrate Launch of Newly Formed, Cross-Discipline Transportation Institute
Apr 3, 2018
The Maryland Transportation Institute (MTI) will coordinate more than $20 million in annual research expenditures to spur innovation in the transportation sector.
Multi-Institutional Team of Scientists Mix the Unmixable to Create ‘Shocking’ Nanoparticles
Mar 29, 2018
A team of researchers from the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD), the University of Illinois at Chicago, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the Johns Hopkins University is the first to create nanoscale particles composed of up to eigh
UMD Research Aims to Improve Tests of Speech Comprehension with EEG Brain Wave Measurements
Mar 27, 2018
Tests developed at the University of Maryland and KU Leuven could result in better diagnoses for patients who have difficulty understanding what they hear.
New Technology for Use in Military Vehicles May Protect Warfighters from Blast-induced Brain Injury
Mar 6, 2018
Elastic frame design reduces blast acceleration up to 80 percent; technology could be adapted for vehicle bumpers, athletic helmets.
Durable Wood Carbon Sponge Could Be the Future of Wearable Sensors, Pollutant Treatment
Mar 1, 2018
Wood carbon sponge overcomes several limiting factors of other lightweight, compressible carbon sponges.
UMD Awarded $1.4 Million to Design New Treatment for PCBs, Heavy Metals in Stormwater
Feb 19, 2018
Created for Department of Defense sites, the design could potentially be used by communities and industry.
UMD Researchers Create Super Wood Stronger Than Most Metals
Feb 8, 2018
A new process could make wood as strong as titanium alloys but lighter and cheaper.
UMD Researchers Develop Breakthrough Technique to Combat Cancer Drug Resistance
Feb 8, 2018
Clark School Bioengineering professor leads collaborative effort to “turn off” multidrug resistance capabilities in cancer cells
