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Competition in the hotel industry can be fierce, so hotel owners need to know who their competitors are and which ones affect their bottom line the most. While owners often have a sense of who they compete with, identifying the right competitive set isn’t always straightforward –

For decades, scientists have been genetically modifying plants to increase yields and nutritional value, or make them more resistant to disease or harsh conditions. Only two major approaches have been used for delivering the genetic materials, and both have limitations. A new

A freckle-faced basketball star in his hometown of Beaumont, Texas, Frank Johnstone joined the U.S. Army Air Forces in 1943 and deployed to Europe as a World War II pilot. In 1945, during a mission targeting Linz, Austria, the 20-year-old second lieutenant was serving as a

When the asteroid Apophis misses Earth by a whisker in April 2029, aerospace engineering students at @ClarkSchool plan to be right on target. A UMD team of graduate students is refining a mission concept that could put a university-built spacecraft in position to capture

As a high school technology teacher, Karen Bogoski has coached over a thousand students through the challenges of engineering projects, but this summer, she was the one tackling a project, and her coaches were @ClarkSchool students. She worked at UMD’s College Park campus

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University of Maryland researchers who've developed an inexpensive treatment to prevent the disease in low- and middle-income countries are now seeking the best way to deliver it—an important step forward in expanding access to lifesaving care. The research team, led by

If you’ve ever bitten into a fresh fig, you’ve tasted the delicious result of one of nature’s most extraordinary and longstanding partnerships. But the figs in your local grocery store only tell a small part of the tale. Wild figs, the ancestors of the domesticated and

A team of University of Maryland students, faculty and staff associated with the XPRIZE competition to end destructive wildfires has advanced to the final round of semifinals to be held in October, moving forward in a race to develop an autonomous detection and suppression system

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Yasmin Reyazuddin ’98 wants to be able to go out for a quick lunch like anyone else. But when nobody’s at the cash register, she’s forced to ask someone to read her the menu on the restaurant’s inaccessible self-service kiosk one by one, then help her order. “It’s very

When a group of University of Maryland graduate students founded GRAD-MAP in 2013, they hoped the summer program would “change the status quo in physics and astronomy” by providing more students with access to research opportunities. GRAD-MAP’s summer scholars are undergraduate

A team of researchers from the Institute for Systems Research (ISR) has introduced a pioneering approach that helps robots understand the world more like humans do, by taking context into account. Their paper, Is the House Ready For Sleeptime? Generating and Evaluating

Like the entire mid-Atlantic region in which it’s nestled, the Chesapeake Bay watershed is facing a future filled with hotter summer nights, more tropical temperatures, fewer frosts in winter and more severe and variable rainfall. But a high resolution assessment of just how

RT @UMDPublicHealth: “We are going in with some exposure already. So, there will be some protection, but now that will erode. If we’re no….

This summer, Dr. Jennifer D. Roberts brought her research on nature, physical activity and health equity directly to the community with a new summer camp aiming to get high schoolers into green spaces in Buffalo, NY. The camp, called BET In FLO (Buffalo Eastside Teens in

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Maryland State Entomologist Max Ferlauto (Ph.D. ’24, entomology) from @UMDscience is working to protect some of the state’s smallest—and rarest—inhabitants. “There are some states where insects are not even considered wildlife, and that can make or break insect conservation,”

Since the 2023 derailment of 53 railway cars in East Palestine, Ohio, led to an explosion and fire of toxic chemicals, efforts to expand the regulation of trains carrying highly hazardous materials have stalled in Congress and current safety recommendations have been ignored,