
RQS Sponsors STEM Showdown for Ninth Graders
Students from four high schools built slingshot launchers, vied for a trophy, and watched liquid nitrogen shatter rubber balls at a daylong STEM event.

REU Program Immerses Students in Interdisciplinary Quantum Simulation Research
The Institute for Robust Quantum Simulation has launched its first summer program to train visiting undergraduates in quantum research.

Vishkin Wins ACM Parallel Computing Award
As this year’s recipient of the award, he gave the keynote address at the ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures in Portland, Oregon.

Levin and Rye Win 2025 Caspar Bowden Privacy Award
The researchers were recognized for revealing how Wi-Fi-based tracking systems can compromise privacy and security on a global scale.

Molloy Receives NSF CAREER Award to Advance Evolutionary Biology with Novel Computational Tools
The award supports the development of advanced computational methods to uncover deeper insights into species’ evolutionary relationships.

News Articles from Reputable Sources Can Be Reframed to Support Misleading Information, Study Finds
Research that included input from CLIP Lab members was recently published in Nature Human Behaviour.

UMD Among Top 5 Doctorate Producers in 5 Critical Tech Areas, Including Quantum
A new study finds that the University of Maryland graduates a high number of students in quantum science and other STEM Ph.D.s.

MC2 Researchers Present Four Papers at Privacy Symposium
The papers showcase diverse approaches to applied and theoretical research that are focused on privacy issues.

TRAILS Announces Third Round of Seed Funding
Seven grants totaling just over $750,000 were awarded to multidisciplinary teams representing all four of TRAILS’ academic institutions—the University of…

Embodied AI Can Close the Nonverbal Communication Gap for Blind Individuals
The project uses AI-infused, touch-based and audio feedback to convey physical cues between blind and sighted co-workers.