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Sylvain Veilleux and his collaborators will equip a ground-based telescope with the observing power of space telescopes for the first time.

The newly christened asteroids are the third and fourth to be named by students enrolled in ASTR 315: “Astronomy in Practice” since 2024.

Twenty-one tenured/tenure-track faculty members, 11 instructional faculty members and 12 research faculty members were promoted. An additional faculty member was named Distinguished University Professor.

Congratulations to the over 3,600 Spring 2026 semester Dean's List awardees from the University of Maryland's College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences.

Seven faculty members share their book recommendations for summer break.

Over 2,200 students from our college graduated in May 2026.

Researchers discovered that supermassive black holes torched their host galaxies with violent winds just 1 billion years after the Big Bang, which could explain why so many early galaxies stopped forming stars.

The 150-member Gamer Symphony Orchestra, which includes around 60 Science Terps, brings the most epic computer game music into the real world.

Projects developed by staff members and graduate students in the College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences received funding to create positive social change. 

The XRISM Resolve instrument’s high resolution and sensitivity allowed the researchers to accurately measure the speed of the hot wind by looking at an X-ray signal from superheated iron in the galactic center.

The College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences will host 45 events.

UMD astronomy Ph.D. student Shaniya Jarrett uses artificial intelligence to decode gravitational waves, some of the universe’s most elusive signals.