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University of Maryland Names Wendy Powers Dean of the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources

May 16, 2025

While hand pumps are no longer the norm, 13% of Marylanders still get their water from individual wells, and new UMD survey data suggest many are contaminated with bacteria

UMD Well Water Data Finds Contamination Frequent on Farms

Mar 13, 2023

Extension Researcher Finds Bacteria, Suggests Filter Use to Boost Safety

Rising sea levels are causing more flooding and threatening a sanitary crisis driven by failure of the septic tank systems used by tens of thousands of Marylanders living in coastal areas or near tidally influenced water bodies.

$1.35M Grant to Fund UMD-Led Team’s Study of Climate Change and Septic Tank Failure

Feb 28, 2023

Growing Hazard for Coastal Dwellers Doesn’t Affect All Marylanders Equally, Researchers Say

The loss of seabird species to invasive predators from rats to feral pigs has damaged island terrestrial environments and marine ecosystems alike in places around the world. Photo courtesy of Island Conservation

Restoring Island-Ocean Connections Creates Broad Benefits, Study Finds

Dec 6, 2022

UMD Scientist Helps to Highlight Need for Coordinated Conservation of Linked Terrestrial, Marine Ecosystems

DOE Funds $6 Million for UMD-Led Creation of Biofuels and Bioplastics from Food Waste

Sep 1, 2021

UMD Professor Stephanie Lansing to head consortium of scientists and industry partners seeking to reduce use of fossil fuels & landfills by creating renewable resources

UMD Researchers Discover a New Role for a Well-Known Molecule as a Plant Hormone, with Implications for Seed Production and Crop Yield

Aug 19, 2020

Findings could help rewrite textbooks, translating to practical applications for plant reproduction

UMD Gets First-Ever ‘New Innovator in Food and Agriculture Research Award’

Jan 9, 2019

With “New Innovator” award, UMD researcher’s recent crop editing grants total more than $1 million

UMD Research Reveals Massive Cropland Expansion in Brazil

Dec 18, 2018

Brazil’s intensive row crop area nearly doubled since 2000, researchers find.

New Machine Learning Method Predicts Possible Additions to Global List of Threatened Plant Species

Dec 3, 2018

UMD scientist co-led the creation of a computer model to assess risk probabilities for 150,000 plant species worldwide

Large-Scale Wind and Solar Farms in the Sahara Would Increase Rain and Vegetation

Sep 6, 2018

UMD-led study published in Science shows solar and wind farms in the Sahara could double rainfall in Earth’s largest hot desert

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