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Alumna Blasts Into Space
NASA Astronaut Jeanette Epps Becomes Second Black Woman to Join ISS  More »

Transforming Engineering: Highlighting Maryland Engineers
In celebration of Black History Month, we highlight the many impactful contributions of Black engineers in our community—students, alums, faculty, and staff—to the Clark School, our university, and world.  More »

$15M Federal Grant Awarded to Support Maryland Electric Vehicle Charging Network
Maryland Clean Energy Center to fund 58 electric vehicle charging stations statewide  More »

New, Innovative UMD Course Teaches In-Demand Skills
‘Advanced Manufacturing Lab’ currently offered at College Park, will be in Southern Maryland in 2024  More »

UMD's 40th Annual Convocation Honors Engineering Staff, Faculty
The University of Maryland's 40th annual Convocation will honor 33 faculty and staff—including four from the A. James Clark School of Engineering—for their contributions to education, research, and the campus community.  More »

Powering a Greener Future
Engineering Sustainability Day showcases entrepreneurial talent  More »

Device That Harvests Water From Air Named Top UMD Invention of the Year
Innovate Maryland event also celebrates work on plastic substitutes, cancer detection, quantum science  More »

Maryland Engineering Graduate Programs: Top 10 Among Public Universities, Five Years in a Row
For the fifth consecutive year, the University of Maryland's A. James Clark School of Engineering ranks among the country's top 10 public universities in graduate engineering programs, according to U.S. News & World Report's 2023–24 rankings.  More »

2023 Energy Seed Grants Provide Launchpad for Local Startups
Six new energy seed grants awarded to diverse projects state-wide  More »

Selected Publications from NanoCenter's AIM Lab and FabLab
Highlighting recent research performed at the NanoCenter AIM Lab and FabLab.  More »

Giving Students "Space" for Galactic Discovery, and a Launch into Research
Among the precious cargo launching to the ISS aboard SpaceX CRS-26 is an experiment designed by UMD students.  More »

Cementing His Legacy
Builder, alum Stanley R. Zupnik's latest gift expands innovation footprint of Maryland Engineering  More »

Introducing the Early Career Distinguished Alumni Society
The ECDA Society launches an exclusive professional network of Maryland Engineering alums leading the next generation of innovators, entrepreneurs, and change agents.  More »

Convocation to Honor Faculty, Staff Accomplishments
Four Maryland Engineers among awardees from across campus  More »

Advisory Board Meeting Highlights New Clean Energy Technology
Energy Institute Welcomes State Delegates Qi and Korman  More »

Attoh-Okine Named UMD CEE Chair
University of Delaware Professor, ASCE Fellow to lead department.  More »

Rethinking the Architecture of Solid-State Batteries: ION Closes $30M Investment Round
Toyota Ventures, Tenaska, and Bangchak Corporation Join Oversubscribed Round Led by Clear Creek Investments, VoLo Earth Ventures, and Alsop Louie Partners

Electrified Heating Towards Green Methane Conversion and Ammonia Synthesis
Multi-institutional study published in Nature.  More »

Brain Freeze: Cryo-FIB-SEM Coming Soon to College Park
The new Brain and Behavior Institute core will expand campus FIB-SEM applications to include biological tissue.  More »

Clark School's Online Engineering Programs Ascend to No. 12 National Rank
The A. James Clark School of Engineering at the University of Maryland rose to No. 12 among online graduate engineering programs in the U.S., according to rankings released today by U.S. News & World Report.  More »

UMD top ranked U.S. university for solid-state battery research publications
Elsevier study indicates UMD has highest publication citation index globally  More »

Maryland Energy Innovation Institute sunset date removed in special session
Maryland State Legislature embraces energy innovation  More »

USMSM Debuts SMART Innovation Center
New, $86 million facility to expand educational opportunities, autonomous vehicles research.  More »

College Park-born Quantum Firm IonQ Goes Public
IonQ, a quantum computing company spun off from research at the University of Maryland, went public today on the New York Stock Exchange.  More »

Liangbing Hu’s HighT-Tech Wins 2021 Spinoff Prize
Prize conferred to UMD start-up for innovative catalysis development.  More »

Secretary of State: 'Domestic Renewal' Needed Through Infrastructure Investments
Blinken emphasizes importance of spending at home to remain global leader in campus speech.  More »

Pecht, Wachsman Named Distinguished University Professors
The title is a recognition of excellence, impact, and significant contribution to the nominee's field, knowledge, profession, and/or practice.  More »

Eric Wachsman Elected President of Electrochemical Society
Wachsman’s appointment effective June 10, 2021 for a two-year term.  More »

Engineering Undergrads Recognized for Excellence
This year, the Clark School honors 70 undergraduates who exemplify the college’s commitment to excellence; five are recognized with Dean’s Awards.  More »

Building Energy Innovation in Maryland
Engineering Market Momentum  More »

Standing with our Asian-American Community
The Clark School community stands united with our Asian, Asian-American and Pacific Islanders colleagues.  More »

CREB Kicks Off 2021 with Meeting to Discuss Future of Battery Research
The virtual meeting aimed to bolster battery technology under extreme conditions.  More »

Two Maryland Energy Innovation Institute Start-Ups Named to Governor’s Future 20 List
Ion Storage Systems and InventWood hailed as talented innovators  More »

New government partner joins UMD’s Center for Research in Extreme Batteries
National Institute of Standards and Technology to collaborate  More »

Energy Start-Up Continues to Make Waves
Ion Storage Systems highlighted in SiliconRepublic  More »

Legacy through Impact: Dr. Darryll J. Pines
UMD President-Designate Darryll Pines inspires a culture of excellence at the Clark School, where everyone plays a part.  More »

Rapidly evolving ‘smart marble’ sensors hold promise for monitoring pharmaceutical industry bioreactors and beyond
Size of the neutrally buoyant bPods has dropped from ‘baseball’ to ‘golf ball’ to ‘cherry’ in just three years.  More »

Pines: Stand in Solidarity, Unite Against Injustice
President-designate calls acts of violence against black community nationwide a 'stain' against UMD values.  More »

2020 Undergraduate Honors and Awards
Sixty-eight undergraduate students from the A. James Clark School of Engineering were recognized with 2020 Annual Engineering Honors and Awards.  More »

Cleaning Natural Methane for Better Access to Renewable Energy
Methane gas cleaned of pipe-corroding sulfur by UMD environmental scientists  More »

Maryland Engineers Receive Coronavirus Research Seed Fund Awards
The COVID-19 pandemic has unleashed a torrent of creativity from researchers eager to help society through this difficult passage.  More »

MEI2 leads U.S. side of $18.4M U.S.-Israel Energy Center focused on Energy Storage
Project will Develop Lithium and Sodium Metal Solid State Batteries for Advanced Energy Storage Applications  More »

Universities, National Labs and Corporations Create New Alliance to Accelerate Maryland's Leadership in Quantum Science
The Maryland Quantum Alliance launched today with an event in the House of Delegates Office Building.  More »

2019 Research Wrap-up: MSE at UMD Ranked 18th among U.S. Universities by Nature
Our department has racked up a considerable amount of honors and accolades as of late!  More »

Clark School of Engineering Professor Joseph Silverman Remembered
Prof. Silverman, who passed on November 6 at age 97, touched countless lives over the course of a long and distinguished career.  More »

What’s Next for Next-Gen Batteries?
High-energy-density polymeric cathode for fast-charge sodium and multivalent batteries.  More »

NSF Awards $1M Grant to UMD Researchers
The interdisciplinary project will explore the molecular connection between the gut and the nervous system.  More »

University of Maryland Launches Quantum Technology Center
The new research center will catalyze the development of high-impact quantum technologies.  More »

UMD Research Group Develops New Technique for Detecting Elusive Protein Aggregates in Biopharmaceuticals
Study published in the Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences.  More »

2019 Dean's Doctoral and Master's Student Research Awards
Created by Clark School Dean Darryll Pines, the competition recognize distinguished graduate student researchers in order to help propel their careers and demonstrate the value of high-quality engineering research.  More »

Korean Energy Company and UMD Partner to Create Next-Gen Batteries
CMNS and Clark School faculty lead project  More »

Have You Seen this Cube?
When an important WWII atomic relic turned up out of the blue, two Maryland researchers wanted to know: what happened to the other 658 of them?  More »

MSE Professor Recognized by AVS and Dry Process Symposium
Gottlieb Oehrlein bestowed the John Thornton Memorial Award and the DPS Nishizawa Award.  More »

Company Co-Founded by Sergio Baron Delivers Ultra-Thin, Custom Shape Lithium Batteries
CEO and Co-Founder Baron (M.S. '12) has led the development of ultrathin lithium battery technology for sleek and flexible medical devices, IoT and wearable devices.  More »

NanoCenter Hot Papers Newsletter, Issue 1: ALD
Every six months, we round up interesting and significant papers that include work done in AIMLab or FabLab.   More »

Nanostructure of carbon and metal could solve potassium-battery puzzle
Rational design produces a missing piece of battery chemistry for cheaper, capacious batteries  More »

"Super Wood" wins multiple awards
Professors Hu and Li receive over $3.6M in funding  More »

2019 Energy Innovation Seed Grant Announcement
Call for proposals due January 15, 2019  More »

Fearless Ideas: A Twofold Promise
Through a generous commitment to the Maryland Promise, Steven Lehrer ('82) is helping today's engineering students get their start where he got his.  More »

Biofilm treatment device receives TEDCO MII funding; paper published in IEEE TBME
In latest development, the researchers have miniaturized the platform and are able to control it through wireless signals.  More »

MEI2 Awards $5K to Local Start-Up at 2018 Clean Energy Summit
Ion Storage Systems wins Innovation Showcase  More »

A Novel Graphene Quantum Dot Structure Takes the Cake
UMD-NIST collaboration experimentally confirms electron interactions in a tightly confined space according to long-untested rules of quantum mechanics  More »

‘Smart Marbles’ hold promise for better outcomes from bioreactors
The marbles, or 'bPods,' will contain microsystems that can “eavesdrop on biology” during fermentation, cell or culture-growing processes.  More »

New Minor in Global Engineering Leadership
The Clark School now offers a 16-credit minor in Global Engineering Leadership.  More »

Advance could yield safer, longer-range electric car batteries
Chemical engineers pack more energy in same space for reliable battery.  More »

NANO.IL.2018 Nano Conference in Israel
Early bird discount applies until 6/27  More »

UMD ARPA-E Innovations transitioning to commercial reality
Transforming energy research into useable technology  More »

The Clark School Celebrates Women's History Month
The Clark School is featuring our female engineering faculty members throughout March.  More »

New Fuel Cell has Exceptional Power Density and Stability
Discovery presents a significant step toward lower fuel cell costs and more sustainable energy.  More »

Inaugural Energy Innovation Seed Grants awarded
$100K grants promote energy innovation technology  More »

Photo-Activated Pseudo-Solid Battery from UCLA in New Journal
Dunn’s ionogel work merits rave highlight  More »

10/9 is NanoDay
Two labs in Maryland embody spirit of NanoDay  More »

MSE Students Selected as Finalists for the 2017 Collegiate Inventors Competition
Stretchable Silicon Photovoltaics is a new design for silicon solar cells.  More »

Lab Students' 'Creativity is Key'
Clark School's Functional Macromolecular Lab allows students to mold new ideas  More »

ChBE Professor Receives 2017-2018 Distinguished Scholar-Teacher Award
Srinivasa Raghavan selected for his dedication to teaching and mentoring.  More »

Sunbeams at the Nano-scale: the Next Generation of Solar Cells
Marina Leite and her team of researchers tackle hybrid organic-inorganic perovskites based on methylammonium lead.  More »

UMERC’s Liangbing Hu pitches transparent wood technology at 2017 ARPA-E Innovation Summit
UMERC is a multidisciplinary initiative dedicated to advancing the frontiers of energy science and technology.  More »

UMD's Technica Expected to Be Largest All-Women Hackathon in U.S.
This weekend, the University of Maryland will host an anticipated 800 women for Technica.  More »

NSF Awards $3.45M National Innovation Ecosystem Grant to University of Maryland
UMD is one of seven lead universities in NSF’s I-Corps ecosystem.  More »

Students Showcase Outstanding Basic, Applied and Innovative Energy Research
Poster session at NEES meeting highlights nanostructures in energy research  More »

Tiny Diamonds Could Enable Huge Advances in Nanotechnology
UMD researchers develop a new method for pairing nanoscale diamonds with other nanomaterials  More »

Clark School’s Amazing Transparent Wood Featured in New York Times
Look Through Wood, No X-Ray Vision Required  More »

Physics Culture Prize Goes to Science Communicator
Lecture slated for July 28 in Stamp at 4 pm  More »

Creating Transparent Electronic Networks with Graphene-Based Ink
Printed transparent conductors are the first to use sodium ions embedded in reduced graphene oxide to boost performance.  More »

Food Safety, Energy Storage & Video Authentication Inventions Honored at Awards Ceremony
Three Clark School innovations win UMD Invention of the Year Awards  More »

The Proof Is in the Pores
Metal-organic frameworks open new channels for energy science  More »

Atomic Layer Deposition: Precise Control Smaller than the Eye Can See
ALD gives researchers atomic-level control of films and coatings for energy generation and storage  More »

UMERC Researchers Came Out in Force at the ARPA-E Summit
UMERC Faculty promoted their transformative energy research last week at the ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit  More »

UMD Hosts 3D Maryland Expert Group Meeting
Event Highlights 3D Printing, Additive Manufacturing Technologies at UMD  More »

UMD Online Engineering Programs Continue to Climb in Standings
U.S. News and World Report Releases 2015 Rankings  More »

Ph.D. Student Guannan Liu Develops Novel Micro-Heater
ECE researchers earn cover page spot in Microelectronic Engineering, a Elsevier journal.  More »

Faster Charging Technique Boosts Battery's Capacity
Unique in situ measurement of optical and electrical transport led to discovery.  More »

UMD Clark School Highlights Disaster Resilience at Mpact Week
Five-day event focused on role of engineers in disaster prevention, mitigation, and response.  More »

University of Maryland Breaks Ground for A. James Clark Hall
New building to serve as hub for human health innovation in the state of Maryland  More »

UMD Clark School Announces Inaugural Awards Winners
New awards honor alumni, friends for career achievements and contributions to Clark School.  More »

UMD Nets a DOE Award for Innovative Energy Research Projects
Projects will help enable advances in energy production and use  More »

Whiting-Turner Lecture Series to Feature Chasen and Chowdhury
Leading tech entrepreneurs to share business experiences.  More »

UMD Entrepreneurship and Innovation Program Wins National Award for Excellence in Entrepreneurship Education
EIP takes first place in the Outstanding Specialty Entrepreneurship Program category.  More »

Clark School's Online Graduate Programs Highly Ranked in 2014 by U.S. News and World Report
Office of Advanced Engineering Education's online graduate program are excellent opportunities for working engineers worldwide.  More »

Self-Correcting, “Perfect Fault” Crystals May End Dropped Calls
Nature features Takeuchi’s, alumnus’ work on “crystalline sandwiches.”  More »

Ghodssi Invited to Speak at IEEE Sensors 2013
Ghodssi delivers lecture on Microsystems for Sensing and Characterization of Bacterial Biofilms  More »

NSF-Backed DC I-Corps Kicks Off First Cohort with 20 Federal Laboratory, University and Regional Inventors, Entrepreneur Teams
The Silicon Valley-tested, Lean Startup-based initiative is slated to train 300 top entrepreneurial research teams over three years.  More »

University of Maryland Ranked Top Public School for Tech Entrepreneurship in 2013 StartEngine College Index
The University Maryland also ranked second overall.  More »

Mpact Week to Showcase UMD Robotics, Bioengineering, Innovation, Oct. 23-26
Events will highlight the Clark School's research, education, innovation, and entrepreneurial ecosystem.  More »

Clark School Engineers Recently Awarded Grants
Clark School-affiliated professors receive research funding  More »

UMD Receives Largest Ever Software Grant from Siemens
UMD students and researchers to gain access to industry technology used to design and manufacture sophisticated products.  More »

Tavis Smiley and UMD Make Last Call for Submissions in the $75,000 Social Innovation Challenge
Deadline for entries is October 13, 2003.  More »

Former Mtech Maryland Industrial Partnerships Funding Recipient Amplimmune Acquired by MedImmune for $500 Million
The acquisition bolsters MedImmune’s pipeline for cancer therapy.  More »

DC I-Corps Now Accepting Applications for Fall Cohort
The new, NSF-supported program revolutionizes technology transfer from university, federal laboratories.  More »

Meet the Potential Future of Electricity Generation
Redox Power Systems, UMD develop breakthrough fuel cells to provide efficient, affordable electricity.  More »

Shapiro Promoted to Full Professor
Interdisciplinary professor known for work in control systems, MEMS.  More »

UMD's Mote Elected NAE President
Former President and Clark School Professor Named President of National Academy of Engineering.  More »

Professors Goldsman & Peckerar Win Award from University System of Maryland

USM Board of Regents Honors Three Inaugural Entrepreneur of the Year Awardees; two are Clark School faculty members.  More »

Recently Awarded Grants to Clark School Faculty
Clark School-affiliated professors receive research funding  More »

FY 2014 National Institute of Standards and Technology Budget Request
Big increase would fund manufacturing, cybersecurity, industrial tech and new facilities  More »

Atoms-Thick Coating Ready for First Test on Silver Artifact
Science covers efforts to protect objects in Walters Art Museum collection.  More »

Wuttig Honored at National Meeting of the Materials Research Society
Professor's 80^th birthday, career celebrated in special symposium.  More »

UMD Scientists and Engineers Present Papers at American Chemical Society Meeting
Exploring “the chemistry of energy and food” … and more  More »

The Smallest Materials of All: Seeing, Making and Testing Materials at the Nanoscale
Presentations at the Materials Research Society's 2013 meeting showcase medical, energy developments      More »

Maryland Innovation Initiative Grant Awarded to Clark School Researchers
Project will advance technology for the real-time detection of bridge scou, a leading cause of failure for bridges in the U.S.  More »

UMD, GWU, and VT Awarded $3.75M by NSF to Launch Regional I-Corps Node for National Innovation Network
Initiative to Train 300 of the Top Entrepreneurial Research Teams from U.S. Universities, Federal Labs  More »

NanoCenter Members Presented Papers at OPTO 2013
SPIE Photonics West conference sees three NanoCenter presentations  More »

Banerjee Joins Washington University in St Louis Faculty
Former UMD student to focus on nanomaterials  More »

Sometimes Size Does Matter
Rethink nanotechnology to convert a car's waste heat into electrical power.  More »

"Pocket Change Spectroscopy" Improves Detection of Toxins, Explosives
Betz, Rubloff Highlighted in Chemical & Engineering News.  More »

ECE Researchers Publish Article in RSC Journal on High Energy Density Flexible Galvanic Cell
Flexible galvanic cell is non-toxic, low-cost and environmentally friendly.  More »

State Ranked Highly in Technology and Science Index
Maryland holds onto #2 overall spot; ranks #1 in human capital, academic R&D.  More »

NIST Awards NanoCenter $15 Million to Support Postdoc Nanotechnology Research
Program will create up to 100 one and two-year appointments.  More »

Materials Scientists, Conservators Join Forces to Preserve Silver Artifacts and Art
Team developing nanometers-thick, protective coatings using atomic layer deposition.  More »

Reza Ghodssi to Participate in EU-US Frontiers of Engineering Symposium
NanoCenter member invited to leading engineering collaboration  More »

Revolutionary New Solution for Semiconductor & Nano Materials
Research may lead to alternative energy advances  More »

U.S. Intel-Tech Agency Will Locate at Maryland's Research Park
Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) to be in M-Square research park by 2009  More »

FabLab Partnership Earns NASA Awards
Corporate user ASR&D receives grants for future work in Maryland NanoCenter lab.  More »

Ultrasensitive Proteomics to be Pursued by DeVoe, Lee, and English for NIH
The group received a $1.2M NIH grant for the work "Ultrasensitive Proteomics via 2-D Microfluidic Profiling" through the National Institute for General Medical Science (NIGMS) as part of NIH's interdisciplinary Bioengineering Research Partnerships program.  More »

Lathrop Named Acting Director of IREAP
Replaces Professor Pat O'Shea  More »