University of Maryland College Park News Archives

James Dcane, a design engineer at Anthrotronix in Silver Spring, controls the CosmoBot robot with the AcceleGlove through hand movements and gestures.

College Park officials are not sure when they will receive state funding to improve the city's congested and damaged stretch of Route 1, but that doesn't mean they're going to stop asking.

Members of the Hubei University Lion Dance and Martial Arts Troupe, visiting from China, perform at Paint Branch Elementary School on Oct.

The next time a college student in your family, office, or neighborhood asks for money, it may not be a personal request.

COLLEGE PARK - Fall foliage may be burning red, orange and yellow these days, but the University of Maryland, College Park is turning green.

Riverdale-based Engaged University, which partners with the University of Maryland, College Park, to build relationships with the local community, will cease operations after Jan.

Seven emerging technologies could result in automatic guided vehicles that never stop to recharge, more nimble robotics, and smarter pattern recognition for faster cancer detection .

The county government is promising to use low-phosphorus fertilizer to green up its parks, golf courses and ballfields - a move aimed at reducing pollution to the Chesapeake Bay.

President of the University of Maryland College Democrats Amy Y. Hartman speaks Sept.

The Center for Library & Information Innovation in the iSchool at the University of Maryland College Park, in partnership with the Government Information Online initiative and the University of Illinois Chicago, received a Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services for 20 mastera s of library ...

Housing: 36 residence halls ranging from fewer than 100 occupants to more than 600.

Alternate Reality Games are a relatively new form of story-telling and gaming. Using a multi-media presentation the games are completely interactive with characters who are changing the game based on the participation of the players - many of whom get physically involved, going from location to location in search of clues.

Approximately... Full Bio Travis Bradley We all have experienced the occasional "flash" of anger or anxious "episode" that seems to just appear out of nowhere.

Approximately... Full Bio Travis Bradley In a previousA entry , I discussed Sharon Begleya s Newsweek article titled a oeIgnoring the Evidence; Why do psychologists reject science?a A It nettled a perennial sore spot for me, which is the culture of Psychology and the role Psychology plays in the family of sciences.

The following stories have been hand-selected by the Assignment Desk at News4: OFFICER IS DRAGGED BY SUSPECTED SHOPLIFTERS Prince George's County police say an off-duty officer has shot two women after he was hit by a car they fled in after shoplifting from a store.

A Prince George's County police officer opened fire on a vehicle that struck him in College Park Friday evening, authorities said.

The College Park elections will be held from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Nov. 3. Residents will elect a mayoral representative as well as two City Council representatives from each of the four districts.

"You are what you post" describes anyone's online persona, and the Internet often doesn't have a delete key.

Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine Center for Vaccine Development have charted the extreme genetic differences that occur over time in the most dangerous malaria parasite in the world.

Though slaves probably helped build the college that would become the University of Maryland, College Park, the institution was created in part to push Maryland past its reliance on slave labor, according to a study released Friday by history professor Ira Berlin and a group of undergraduate researchers.

Those who enjoy -- or depend on -- using a powerful laptop computer, cell phone, game system, MP3 player or GPS system should thank Buno Pati, 2009 inductee in the Innovation Hall of Fame at the University of Maryland's A. James Clark School of Engineering.

Students and teachers at Buck Lodge Middle School in Adelphi raised $820 for breast cancer research on Friday.

In this article I will present a step-by-step service-oriented solution development methodology and then describe how it is being used for the successful implementation of Service-Oriented Architecture at a federal agency to integrate its financial systems with E-Gov Travel Services.

Maryland's public university system is poised to become the first in the country with a policy on student displays of pornographic films, a direct response to legislative demands made after a screening earlier this year of a XXX-rated film at the University of Maryland, College Park.

It's high fashion for the highly worried. Some people are buying clothes that can stand up to bullets.

Following last year's adult movie screening at the University of Maryland College Park, the buzz about pornography is still around.

Here are previews of some editorials we're working on. Let us know what you think.

ADELPHI, Md. - The University System of Maryland is developing a policy on student displays of pornographic films.

The new belt lies at the far reaches of the Saturnian system, with an orbit tilted 27 degrees from the main ring plane.

Staying at home may have given the very first termite youngsters the best opportunity to rule the colony when their parents were killed by their neighbors.

Packing heat may backfire. People who carry guns are far likelier to get shot a ' and killed a ' than those who are unarmed, a study of shooting victims in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has found.

Valerie Holt, 16, has been a member of the Sha'are Shalom congregation since she was 2. She is now one of three volunteer lay cantors who sing during services.

Gov. Martin O'Malley announced Thursday the appointment of Stanley Plumly to be Maryland's ninth poet laureate, an honorary position that entails staging public readings around the state.

The University of Maryland, College Park and the University of Maryland, Baltimore combined in fiscal 2009 to bring in more than $1 billion in research money for the first time.

Published Online October 1, 2009 Science DOI: 10.1126/science.1174705 Reports Submitted on April 8, 2009 Accepted on September 18, 2009 Sexual Conflict Resolved by Invasion of a Novel Sex Determiner in Lake Malawi Cichlid Fishes Reade B. Roberts 1, Jennifer R. Ser 1, Thomas D. Kocher 1* 1 Department of Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, ...

Graph Identification and Privacy in Social Networks : Via Google Tech Talks. ABSTRACT Graph identification refers to methods that transform observational data described as a noisy, input graph into an inferred "clean" output graph.