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Pratap Tokekar, Abhinav Bhatele and John Dickerson—who also hold appointments in the Department of Computer Science—were promoted from assistant professor to associate professor with tenure; while Associate Research Scientist Corneila Fermüller was promoted to research scientist.

Over her 32 year career, Jane Plane successfully increased participation of women in computing at UMD and abroad, developing programs that ultimately made Maryland a national leader in women studying computer science.

The Amazon Research Awards program provides funds and Amazon Web Services promotional credits to academic researchers investigating research topics across a number of disciplines.

The $2.7M award will be spread across four years, supporting his team’s ongoing work that uses machine learning techniques to interpret “multiomics” data.

The prestigious honor recognizes up to four papers each year for their long-lasting impact on the field of natural language processing and computational linguistics.

Adam Phillippy and Michael Schatz are being recognized for their leadership in completing the first full sequence of the human genome.

A wearable device developed by Brantley Hall could help enable the diagnosis and management of irritable bowel disease.

An invention developed by Rita Colwell has the potential to help save millions of lives, giving public health officials an added tool in the fight against pathogens.

The topics covered by the MC2 researchers involve security education, online protection for at-risk users, and "blocklisting"—a computer security protocol that lists items in a set that may require quarantine, exclusion or additional security scans.

Elizabeth Bennewitz is one of 33 recipients to receive the award in 2022—the largest number of students this program has ever selected in a year.