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C H O O S E YO U R T O U R :
Research & Discovery
With stunning new
research buildings
opening around campus
and a strategic location
that fosters partnerships
with government and
industry, the University
of Maryland is uniquely
positioned for research
that addresses the grand
challenges of our time.
Maryland researchers take on
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Center for Computer
Science and Engineering
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Opened in 2019, this dramatic
presence on Baltimore Avenue
unites our top-ranked computer
science department with the
acclaimed Institute for Advanced
Computer Studies, creating a
hub for technology in UMD’s
Discovery District.
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vital issues like clean energy, the
unparalleled promise of quantum
technology and the ethical use of
artificial intelligence in dozens of
research centers and institutes.
These include the Brain and Behavior
Institute, the Maryland Energy
Innovation Institute, the Artificial
Intelligence Interdisciplinary
Institute at Maryland (AIM) and the
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Joint Quantum Institute, a globally
renowned partnership with the
National Institute of Standards and
Technology. Other federal partnerships
with NOAA, NASA and more propel
UMD’s expertise worldwide.
Find more at research.umd.edu.
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IDEA Factory
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Innovation Center
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Students and researchers come
This facility in the Technology
provides hands-on training to
together in this 2022 building to
Advancement Program Building
students in the animal sciences,
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push the limits of innovation and
has dozens of MakerBot 3-D
includes sheep, cattle, horses and
Located in the Parren J. Mitchell
entrepreneurship. It boasts an
printers, more than tripling the
poultry, and harkens back to the
Art-Sociology Building, the Michelle
underground quantum lab, spaces
number in the A. James Clark
university’s founding in 1856 as
Smith Collaboratory for Visual
to test advanced robots and the
School of Engineering and putting
the Maryland Agricultural College.
Culture features an IMAX-like screen
xFoundry@UMD, which hosts a
the future of manufacturing in
and other technology to study art and
new XPRIZE-inspired competition
reach of all Maryland students.
architecture in novel ways.
This small working farm, which
awarding up to $2 million for
student solutions to grand
challenges.
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