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Spring 2008 News Releases

May 2008: Model Successfully Predicts Large River System Fish Diversity

May 2008: Global Warming Fix Would Damage Earth’s Protective Ozone Layer

April 2008: Plasticity and the Adult Brain (PDF File) (Associate Professor of Biology Elizabeth Quinlan is featured in this issue of IMPACT: Research at the University of Maryland about Research in neuroscience and cognitive science

March 2008: Fuel from Trash, Not From Food:
Professors' Invention Promises Major Advance in Biofuel Production

February 2008: Biologist Solves Puzzle of How Cells Adjust Pressure

Fall 2007 News Releases

November 15, 2007: Revolutionalry Plastics Prove Perfect Pitch

November 12, 2007: Scorpion Toxin Makes Fungus Deadly to Insect Pests

October 29, 2007: UM Participates in New Consortium to Advance Health Research in DC Area

September 17, 2007: Grand Opening of the New Bioscience Research Building

Spring 2007

July 2007: UM Professor, Alumnus Win National Medals of Science (University of Maryland Distinguished Professor Rita R. Colwell and Chemistry Alumnus, Dr. Tobin Marks '66, Received National Medals of Science)

June 2007: Scientists De-Code RNA Mystery, Will Help Aim Drug Therapies, (team led by Dr. Jon Dinman)

April 2007: UM Launches Pathogen Research Institute (Dr. David Mosser, professor of cell biology and molecular genetics is the founding director)

March 2007: Techniques to Detect Pathogens (PDF File) (Dr. Catherine Fenselau is featured in this issue of IMPACT: Research at the University of Maryland about New Ideas to Confront Terrorism)