Working Out the Bugs
Biologist’s Quest to Count Native Bees Faces Challenge by Karen Shih ’09 “Animals and plants, they just don’t like to be counted,” Sam Droege ’80 observes. That hasn’t stopped the eccentric biologist...
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Student Finals Tradition Escalates in Recent Years by Karen Shih ’09 | photo illustration by Kelsey Marotta ’14 They came at first bearing candy bars, beads and cups of coffee. Then they left couches....
View ArticleHappiness Gap
Researcher tracks feelings of well-being worldwide by Chris Carroll While economists traditionally deploy cold, hard numbers like gross national product and growth rates to compare welfare around the...
View ArticleBeat Dreams
by Alex Stoller ’16 | photo illustration by Jeanette J. Nelson | portrait by John T. Consoli When Jason Nichols ’00, Ph.D. ’12 isn’t lecturing in the African American studies department, he’s going by...
View ArticleAsk Anne
Questions for Anne Turkos, the university archivist Q: As an avid watch collector for 20 or more years and an NCAA basketball nut, I have stumbled upon a little piece of Maryland basketball history. I...
View ArticleNo Place Like Your Second Home
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View ArticlePitch Perfect
Terp Looks to Continue Baseball’s New Success by Liam Farrell | photo by John T. Consoli Sophomore pitcher Mike Shawaryn has a simple goal whenever he takes the mound: command the strike zone. But...
View ArticleRipe on Time
Wireless Sensors Set to Improve Strawberry Farming by Lauren Brown Trying to harvest a successful crop of strawberries could make any farmer go bananas. They’re a fussy fruit, susceptible to frost,...
View ArticleShort-term Art, Long-term Hopes for College Park
by Lauren Brown | photo by John T. Consoli This week only, the landscape of downtown College Park is a little more whimsical. And thoughtful. And connected. Students in a new public art and design...
View ArticleThe F.I.R.S.T. Step
First-Generation Transfer Students Create Program to Help Peers by Alex Stoller ’16 | illustration by Kelsey Marotta ’14 Anthony Rasoamiaramanana faced all the challenges of an incoming Terp:...
View ArticleAlum Plants Seeds for Great Wine
Crowdfunding Company Helps Winemakers, Consumers Explore New Tastes by Liam Farrell One Sunday, about three years after graduation, Dave Trebilcock ’89, MBA ’96 had a revelation brought to him in a...
View ArticleProtected: Meet Meat—Made From Plants
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View ArticleFingerprints of Power
Researcher Tracks Video Locations Using Electrical Grid Signal by Chris Carroll | photo illustration by Kelsey Marotta ’14 Soon after terrorists flew hijacked airliners into World Trade Center and the...
View ArticleHope Floats in a Concrete Canoe
Student Engineering Team Heads to National Competition by Lauren Brown Like the legendary racehorse it’s named for, a canoe called Seabiscuit is helping Maryland engineering students make a comeback. A...
View ArticleCreativity Beyond Kermit
Early Jim Henson Works Live on at UMD by Liam Farrell In December 1955, students and spectators gathered in the auditorium of Maryland’s Skinner Building to be transported to a spooky vision of the...
View ArticleTerrapin Ninja Warrior
Alum Hopes to Conquer Extreme Obstacle Course on TV by Karen Shih ’09 David Bozak ’97 can’t tell you how well he’ll do on tonight’s episode of “American Ninja Warrior” (ANW), NBC’s hit summer show. But...
View ArticleProtected: Playing From the (Mechanical) Heart
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View ArticleKnowing the Score
Terp Keeps Tabs on Golf’s Best by Liam Farrell When the world’s best golfers tee off this week at the 144th British Open, a Terp will be counting their swings. Adam Clark ’05 has spent the last seven...
View ArticleA Purr-fect Combination
Alum’s Love of Animals, Business Leads to D.C.’s First Cat Café by Karen Shih ’09 “People say D.C. isn’t whimsical,” says Kanchan Singh ’12. But from her view, perched on an end table in her Georgetown...
View ArticleGirls Blast Barriers to Computer Science Careers
by Chris Carroll The two young programmers take turns peering into the 3-D virtual reality headset, blasting space rocks that seem to be hurtling toward them. The players can shoot the oncoming...
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