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Public Health Researchers Look to Borrow … Your Flu?
In the hallways of a downtown Baltimore hotel, University of Maryland School of Public Health researchers and colleagues from the University of Maryland School of Medicine are breaking new ground in a first-of-its-kind study that aims to learn how the flu is transmitted. Do you get it when a person ...View Article Details for Public Health Researchers Look to Borrow … Your Flu? -
The Science of Perseverance
It’s hard to imagine the world of science without trailblazing environmental microbiologist Rita Colwell. An expert in global infectious disease and the first female director of the National Science Foundation, Colwell has conducted seminal research on cholera that transformed our understanding of h...View Article Details for The Science of Perseverance -
Can Exercise Win the Race Against Alzheimer’s?
At 79, Ed Vilade has a jammed social calendar. Between his choir practice (he’s in two), voice lessons, community theater and overseeing the writer’s guild at his Silver Spring, Md., retirement community, Vilade’s brain was getting a regular workout, critical, he thought, to staying sharp as he aged...View Article Details for Can Exercise Win the Race Against Alzheimer’s? -
On Nepal Research Trip, Graduate Students Strive for Solutions for Food, Energy, Water
Even on the roof of the world, climate change is melting the snow. The loss of a third of the ice of Himalayan mountains in the past 30 years has translated into water and food shortages and variable water quality in the villages below. A University of Maryland team traveled there this month to see...View Article Details for On Nepal Research Trip, Graduate Students Strive for Solutions for Food, Energy, Water -
New SPH Study Asks a Favor: Come Give Us Your Flu
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Safeguarding Every Drop: UMD Research Aims to Catalog Drinking Water Contaminants Statewide
The Maryland Safe Drinking Water Analysis and Testing for Education and Research (WATER) study examines the quality of public drinking water systems and private wells in Maryland through citizen science, field-based research and laboratory analyses.View Article Details for Safeguarding Every Drop: UMD Research Aims to Catalog Drinking Water Contaminants Statewide