News Archives
2020-2021 Academic Year
Fall Semester 2020
2019-2020 Academic Year
Spring Semester 2020
- Timothy Koeth Elected to National Museum of Nuclear Science & History Board of Trustees
- Mohammad Hafezi Wins 2020 Simons Foundation Investigator Award
- Legacy through Impact: Dr. Darryll J. Pines
- Hafezi, Hu Named Blavatnik Finalists for Second Straight Year
- Pines: Stand in Solidarity, Unite Against Injustice
- Promoting Diversity and Addressing Unconscious Bias
- Elizabeth Paul named Princeton Presidential Postdoctoral Research Fellow
- IREAP Congratulates Michael Nastac (University Medal recipient)
- Two Engineers Among 2020-2021 Distinguished Scholar-Teachers
- Murphy Named 2020-2021 Distinguished Scholar-Teacher by the University of Maryland
- Centrifugal Mirror Fusion Experiment receives funding through BETHE program
- Girvan featured on Jim Rutt Show podcast
- Quarantines Increasingly Ignored as Some States Partially Reopen
- New, superfast method for ceramic manufacturing could open door to AI-driven materials discovery
- Terrapin 'Works' Toward Relief Efforts
- COVID-19 Engineering Solutions: In the News
- Maryland Engineers Open Door to Big New Library of Tiny Nanoparticles
- Maryland Engineers Receive Coronavirus Research Seed Fund Awards
- High-performance electrolyte solves battery puzzle
- Incubator Hatches COVID-19 Solutions
- Answering the Call Amid COVID-19
- Srebric Named Acting Associate Dean for Research
- Protection Collections Abound for Local Health Care Workers
- Researchers from Poland report results aided by UMD's AIM Lab
- Slam Dunk at Alumni Cup
- Clark School Graduate Engineering Program Ranked 20th Nationally
- Revolutionize the Commute: Electric Bicycle
- Improve the Outcome: Vascular Liver Tissue
- Break Records: The "Flying Carpet"
- Become a Contender: Electric Racecar
- Spread Hope: The "Smart Bra"
- Move a Great Idea Forward: The Stance Prosthetic Foot
- Robert Briber Named Interim Dean of Clark School
- 2020 Hulka/Wells Energy Fellowships Awarded
- Hafezi, Antonsen, Sprangle receive 2020 MURI Awards
- Dean Pines Named University of Maryland's 34th President
- Universities, National Labs and Corporations Create New Alliance to Accelerate Maryland's Leadership in Quantum Science
- Drake, Dorland, Swisdak selected to lead NASA science center
- Daring Vision. Lasting Impact.
- Professor Yanne K. Chembo named 2020 Optical Society Fellow
- Chembo Published in APS Reviews of Modern Physics
- NSF Awards $1M Grant to UMD Researchers
- University of Maryland Launches Quantum Technology Center
- Munday’s research aims to mitigate climate change through radiative cooling
2018-2019 Academic Year
Spring Semester 2019
- Antonsen and co- authors win 2019 IEEE EMC Best Paper Award
- Harry Arnold wins NASA FINESST Award
- Laser Method Promising for Detecting Trace Chemicals in Air
- Ring Resonators Corner Light
- Two Clark School Faculty Named Finalists of Prestigious Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists
- Clark School at the 2019 ASEE Annual Conference
- Scientists revisit the cold case of cold fusion
- Sculpting Super-Fast Light Pulses
- Have You Seen this Cube?
- Prof. Gottlieb Oehrlein and team cultivate a way to decontaminate raw produce using plasma science
- Gottlieb Oehrlein to receive John Thornton Memorial Award (AVS)
- Radioactive Material Detected Remotely Using Laser-induced Electron Avalanche Breakdown
- UMD Invention of the Year Nominees Push Limits in Cybersecurity, Health, Quantum Computing, and More
- Artificial Intelligence solutions for commercial adoption of solar cells
- Prof. Marina Leite's work featured on cover of Joule
- Ott Gives Invited Talks on Machine Learning at the Imperial College London and the Alan Turing Institute
- The Promise of Perovskites: Using machine learning techniques, Leite Group investigates impact of environmental stressors on perovskites.
- Elizabeth Paul and Jaideep Pathak win Outstanding Graduate Assistant Awards
- Researchers make liquid crystals do the twist
- Biodegradable Color Pixels that Disappear Completely
- Palm, Murray research featured on cover of ACS Photonics
- UMD researchers awarded $1M NSF grant to develop new methods to generate single photons for quantum research
- Pristine quantum light source created at the edge of silicon chip
- Munday Receives DARPA Young Faculty Award
2017-2018 Academic Year
Spring Semester 2018
Fall Semester 2017
- Leite Group Creates Nano-sized Super-absorber, Published in Advanced Optical Materials
- Leite Research Group’s Invited Review Published in ACS Energy
- UMD/MSE Graduate Student is an MRS Graduate Student Award Finalist This Fall
- Girvan, Losert, and Waks Named APS Fellows
- University of Maryland School of Engineering Announces Unprecedented Investment from A. James & Alice B. Clark Foundation
- MSE Research Group’s Invited Perspective Published in ACS Energy Letters
- Jeremy Munday Receives 2017 Clark School Junior Faculty Outstanding Research Award
2016-2017 Academic Year
Spring Semester 2017
- Tom Antonsen Named Distinguished University Professor
- Thomas E. Murphy Reappointed as Director of IREAP
- Clark School Researchers Represented on Four 2017 MURI Awards
- Waks, Chellappa, Milchberg and Sprangle Participate in Different Department of Defense MURI Projects
- The Department of Defense Awards Assistant Professor Mohammad Hafezi Competitive DURIP Grant
- Leite and Team's Development of New Solar Cell Devices
- MSE Professor Honored at APS Annual Meeting
- UMD Team Takes Top Spot in Performance & Operations at SpaceX Hyperloop Competition
- Munday's lab research featured on the cover of ACS Photonics
- Prof. Ed Ott to receive Richardson Medal (EGU) and Moser Award (SIAM)
- Prof. Leite research featured on cover of Advanced Optical Materials
- Prof. Edward Ott and colleagues featured in APS Physics Journal
- Energy Research Center battery highlighted on CBS This Morning
- Solar cells improved with nanospheres is subject of ACS journal cover
- Prof. Jeremy Munday, Dongeon Ha and Prof. Marina Leite, Chen Gong featured on the Cover of ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces
- Munday, Ha, and Collaborators' Research featured on the Cover of ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces
- NSF Awards $3.45M National Innovation Ecosystem Grant to University of Maryland
- Mayergoyz Publishes a book, "Quantum Mechanics for Electrical Engineers"
- Ott, Yorke, and Grebogi recognized by Thompson Reuters as 2016 Citation Laureates in Physics
- Milchberg and Khaligh Receive 2016 Junior and Senior Faculty Outstanding Research Awards
- Prof. Ott, Prof. Yorke & Alumnus Grebogi Named 2016 Thomson Reuters Citation Laureates
- UMD Researchers Work to Prevent Radiological Terror Attacks with Lasers
- UMD Physicists Discover “Smoke Rings” Made of Laser Light
- Timothy Koeth, Associate Research Professor, Profiled in The Washington Post
- Prof. Leite Awarded APS Ovshinsky Sustainable Energy Fellowship
- Gary Rubloff named Distinguished University Professor
2015-2016 Academic Year
Spring Semester 2016
- Former Chair of ECE and VP for Research, Dr. Patrick G. O'Shea, Named President of the University of College Cork in Ireland (UCC)
- Dr. Marc Swisdak Awarded Provost’s Excellence Award
- Space Mission First to Observe Key Interaction Between Magnetic Fields of Earth and Sun
- UMD Researchers Make Breakthrough in Terahertz Technology
- A View Through Wood Shows Futuristic Applications
- UMD Prof T.M. Antonsen Jr. Recognized by IEEE for Contributions to Vacuum Electronics
- Scientists blend coinage metals to obtain alloys better than gold
- UMD Invention of the Year Nominees Push Boundaries in Health, Energy, and Security
- Nanoscale cavity strongly links quantum particles
- Leite to Lead Solar Tutorial at APS Physics Conference
- You’ll Never Be-Leaf What Makes up This Battery
- Waks Elevated to Fellow of the Optical Society of America
- The “Warhol Batteries”
- UMD Discovery Could Enable Portable Particle Accelerators
- Leonard to be Honored for Cooperative Control Innovations
- New efficiencies in solar cells on the horizon
- UMD Researchers Creating First Onboard Fast-Charging System for Electric Vehicles
- Mesoscale Science Research Highlighted on Materials Journal Cover
- Microsystems Graduate Student Seminar Series
- NSF Funds Novel Research to Create Scalable Wireless Networking, Averting Usage Crisis
- UMD Researchers’ New Nanoscale Solar Cells Could Revolutionize Solar Industry
- Gates Foundations awards UMD project to address world sanitation problems
2014-2015 Academic Year
Spring Semester 2015
- New Battery Demonstrates “Sweet Spot” of Electrolyte Thickness and Composition
- Small Can Be Strong and Tough
- Cumings Named Interim Director of Maryland NanoCenter
- Shampoo ingredient keeps nanotubes cleaner, more manageable
- Thin coatings controlled at atomic scale protect high performance lithium anodes
- Two FIBs Now Available in NanoCenter's AIM Lab
- Members of NEES Gather for 2015 Spring Accomplishment Meeting
- Seminar on UMD's New FIB Instruments May 27
- Hafezi Named 2015 ONR Young Investigator
- Chang Wins Outstanding ASPIRE Research Award
- BGE's Calvin Butler to Deliver Spring Commencement Remarks
- Bailey Awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
- Munday Named 2015 OSA Lomb Medal Recipeint
- NIST Highlights Leite’s “Battery Perimortems"
- Pines Recognized with Maryland Speaker's Medallion
- Simple Stretchable Conducting Material is Robust and Inexpensive
- 'I am very humbled': Hafezi Awarded Prestigious Sloan Fellowship
- Understanding Battery Failure in Realtime, at the Nanoscale
- Redox Fuel Cell Technology Highlighted in Gigaom Tech
- Munday Wins IEEE Photonics Society Young Investigator Award
- UMD Online Engineering Programs Continue to Climb in Standings
- News Update on 2015 Funding for NSF
- Wood Fibers in Technology: Technical Report from MRS meeting
- Naviasky, an ECE Student, Spoke at the 2014 Winter Commencement
- News Update on FY 2015 Funding for NIST
- News Update on FY 2015 Appropriations for DOE Office of Science
- Underwriters Laboratories President to Speak at Winter Commencement
- UMD Ranked Among World’s Best in Science Research Productivity
- Physics Prof Confirmed as Head of ARPA-E
- UMD Clark School Highlights Disaster Resilience at Mpact Week
- Hu, Leite Named Outstanding Engineer and Scientist of the Year (VIDEO)
- ASPIRE Award Supports Undergrad’s Solar Cell Research
- Undergrad Among First to Map Solar Cell Parameters at Sub-Micron Resolution
- A Billion Holes Can Make a Battery
- New Equipment and Science Capabilities at Army Research Lab
- Tropical Tree Fibers Can Hold Battery Power, Say UMD Engineers
- Phosphorene: 2-D material ripples, giving optical properties
- UMD engineers create tiny, robust rubber micro-component.
- Leidos Invests in Innovation Partnership with UMD
- Nanoparticles Add Zest to Search for Drug Delivery Methods
- Understanding Where Something Isn't for Better Solar Cells
- Maryland Industrial Partnerships Program Approves 18 Technology Development Projects
- UMD Clark School to Host Mpact Week: Disaster Resilience
- Waks, Shapiro receive NSF EAGER grant to test spintronic devices
- New UMD Synthesis Method May Shape Future of Nanostructures, Clean Energy
- Beyond “Six Nines”: Ultra-enriched Silicon for Quantum Computing
2013-2014 Academic Year
Spring Semester 2014
- Workshop on Defects in Wide Band Gap Semiconductors Sept. 23
- Adding Lithium Boosts Transparency and Conductivity of Graphite
- Munday, Hu and Collaborators’ Research on Inside Cover of Advanced Energy Materials
- UMD Nets a DOE Award for Innovative Energy Research Projects
- UMD Spin-Off Gets a Boost
- Bartis Wins Wylie Fellowship for Research on Plasma for Disinfection
- Mohammad Hafezi Joins ECE and IREAP Faculty
- IREAP and MSE Alum Receives University Distinguished Dissertation Award
- Clark School Faculty Recognized at Celebration of Innovation and Partnerships
- Drake Named Distinguished University Professor
- Invention of the Year Finalist
- Milchberg Lab Featured in APS Viewpoint
- Rafel Setra Named 2014 Goldwater Scholar
- UMD Ranked 3rd in US for Plasma Physics
- Tiny Origami Boxes Hold Big Promise for Hydrogen Energy Storage
- Munday Awarded SPIE Early Career Achievement Award
- Clark School's Online Graduate Programs Highly Ranked in 2014 by U.S. News and World Report
- Kishek Named 2013 APS Fellow
- Added Molecules Allow Metal-Organic Frameworks to Conduct Electricity
- UMD to Host First-Ever Scholarship Day of Giving Dec. 11
- Team Mulciber to Compete as Finalist in Wood Stove Decathlon
- Koeth Named Acting Director of Radiation Facilities
- Happy Birthday Ter.ps!
- Alumnus Krill to Be Honored for Revolutionary Naval Fleet Network Technology
- University of Maryland Ranked Top Public School for Tech Entrepreneurship in 2013 StartEngine College Index
- Socio-Environmental Synthesis Research Proposal Writing Workshop Now Accepting Applications
- Fischell Department of Bioengineering to Host 7th Fischell Festival
- Prof. Ed Ott Selected for 2014 Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize
- Mpact Week to Showcase UMD Robotics, Bioengineering, Innovation, Oct. 23-26
- Engineering Community Picnic & Info Fair Snapshots
- Competition Seeks Outstanding Microscopy Images
- UMD Receives Largest Ever Software Grant from Siemens
- Clark School Highlights Limitless Opportunities in New Video
- Clark School Highly Ranked in U.S. News and World Report's "2014 Best Colleges Rankings"
- The Green Fellowship for Collaborative Research on the Environment
- DC I-Corps Now Accepting Applications for Fall Cohort
- Munday, Waks receive $300,000 NSF Grant
- NASA, We've Left the Solar System
- Summer Wrap-Up: Undergraduate Researchers Compete for Prize
2012-2013 Academic Year
Spring Semester 2013
- UMD Team Receives Keck Foundation Grant to Design and Build New Photonic Spectrometer
- Table-top Scientific Research for Developing Countries
- UMD Awarded Three Department of Defense MURI Grants
- Rabin Promoted
- Sprangle Awarded 2013 Maxwell Prize
- Prof. Dan Lathrop featured in "Secrets of the Earth"
- 2013 James Clerk Maxwell Prize
- IREAP Class of 2013
- UMD Researchers Achieve Breakthrough in Nanoprecision Imaging
2009-2010 Academic Year
Spring Semester 2010
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