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Fall 2023
Decoding Disease, Targeting Threats (pdf)
Decoding Disease, Targeting Threats (single pages only; pdf)
Features:
- Canceling Cancer With T Cells
- Training the Brain
- Mapping Molecules in the Brain
- Alums Fighting Human Diseases
Summer 2022
Confronting Climate Change (pdf)
Confronting Climate Change (single pages only; pdf)
Features:
- Predicting Droughts from Space
- Balancing the Climate Budget
- Choosing Trees to Cool Cities Wisely
- Alumni Climate Crusaders
Summer 2020
Machine Learning: Harnessing the Predictive Power of Computers (pdf)
Features:
- UMD vs. COVID-19
- Machine Learning: Harnessing the Predictive Power of Computers
- Pavan Ravindra Solves Equations—and Rubik's Cubes
- Antarctica Adventure
- Laying Down the Laws
- Weathering the Storm
- Estate Gift to Mathematics Honors Herbert A. Hauptman (Ph.D. ’55, Mathematics)
Spring 2019
Be the future. (pdf)
Features:
- Opening a Door to Tomorrow
- Turning Ideas Into Reality
- Creating a Sense of Community
- Cultivating Leadership
- Building a Hub for Tech Leaders
- Driving Research Advances
- Our Generous Donors
Winter 2019
Fearless Science: A Half-Century of Bold Research (pdf)
Features:
- Fearless Science: A Half-Century of Bold Research
- A Bedrock Gift for Geology Seniors
- A Real-life Boost for Virtual Research
- Telling the Stories of Evo-Devo
- Falling into Entrepreneurship
Fall 2017
Fighting Human Disease at All Scales, from Multispecies to Submolecular (pdf)
Features:
- Fighting Human Disease at All Scales, from Multispecies to Submolecular
- Joe Redish: Walking the Walk of Physics Education
- An Augmented Experience
- A Career at the Interface
- New Labs Catalyze Chemistry Learning
Fall 2016
Special Edition–Two Covers, Same Content!
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Spring 2016
Tipping the Balance: Environmental Security in a Time of Scarce Resources and Conflicting Priorities (pdf)
Features:
- Tipping the Balance: Environmental Security in a Time of Scarce Resources and Conflicting Priorities
- Teaming Up: Mathematics + Life
- Student Research Around the World
- U.S. Government’s Top Chemist
- A Day in the Life of an Undergraduate CEO
Summer 2015
Black Holes: Supermassive Guardians of the Galaxies (pdf)
Features:
- Black Holes: Supermassive Guardians of the Galaxies
- Deep Time, Deep Foundations
- A Family Affair
- #Outwork On and Off the Court
- Math Whiz Wins Wall Street
- "Terpaholics" Can't Stop Giving
- Alumnus DJ Patil Named U.S. Chief Data Scientist
Fall 2014
Game Changer (pdf)
Brendan Iribe continues to show his vision.
Features:
- Game Changer - Brendan Iribe Continues to Show His Vision
- 2015: A Quantum Odyssey
- Young Scientists, Ancient Discoveries
- Tipping Point to Turning Point
- The Mechanicks of Mentoring
June 2014
Now You See It (pdf)
Big data provides new research insights across the college.
Features:
- Now You See It - Unexpected Patterns and Connections Fuel Data-driven Discoveries
- Up, Up and Away - CONTRAST Team Takes to the Skies
- Matchmaker to the World
- Creating a Financial Cushion
December 2013
Welcome to the Physical Sciences Complex (pdf)
Features:
- Great Science Happens Here - Physical Sciences Complex Opens Its Doors
- Design Innovations Foster Research Breakthroughs
- New Complex Helps Attract Nation's Top Physicists to JQI
- PSC Strengthens NIST Partnership - Katharine Gebbie Advocated for JQI and New Facility
May 2013
Big Questions in Science: CMNS Research Yields Major Discoveries (pdf)
Features:
- Big Questions In Science: 1) Why do tiny neutrinos reveal about the universe?
- Big Questions In Science: 2) Was Einstein Correct?
- Big Questions In Science: 3) How can deadly pathogens be controlled?
- Big Questions In Science: 4) What drives the movement of animal populations?
- Big Questions In Science: 5) How do genes change functions in nature?
- Big Questions In Science: 6) How does energy flow between fast-spinning molecules?
- Big Questions In Science: 7) How can artificial intelligence decipher complex data?
- Big Questions in Science: 8) Why do continents exist only on planet Earth?
- Big Questions in Science: 9) How do mathematical models explain nature?
- Big Questions in Science: 10) How can we improve weather forecasting?
- Tobin Marks Discovers Catalysts to Create Sustainably Produced Plastics
- Persistence Pays Off (Student Profile)
- Robert Menzer Establishes Award to Honor Grandson
October 2012
The Innovation Issue: CMNS Innovators and Entrepreneurs Change the World (pdf)
Features:
- Fail Fast to Succeed Early
- From Research to Market
- Hands-On Experience for Budding Life Science Entrepreneurs
- Student Catch Innovation Bug Early
- Top Tech Companies Have CMNS Connection
- A Quantum Leap in Computing
- Caring Professor Inspires Corporate Success
April 2012
Transforming Teaching and Learning (pdf)
Features:
- Breaking Boundries: New Teaching Strategies Cross Disciplines
- Paying It Forward: Tom and Mary Snitch
- Total Immersion
- Science For All
- Learning Beyond the Classroom
- Dynamic Duo Guides Generations of Students to Academic Success
July 2011
CMNS Explores the Impacts of Climate Change (pdf)
Features: