Maryland and NASA Goddard To Sign Long-Term MOU

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Category: Department News

Published: Tuesday, April 13 2010 00:00

On March 4, 2010, President Mote and NASA-Goddard Director Rob Strain signed a Memorandum of Understanding to promote collaboration between NASA-Goddard and the University of Maryland. A Space Act Agreement between the two institutions was signed by Dean Steve Halperin and Dr. Nick White of NASA-Goddard. The Agreement launches the Joint Space-Science Institute (JSI), a partnership between the Departments of Astronomy and Physics and NASA-Goddard, with Chris Reynolds (Astronomy) as Director.

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For UM and the World, LHC Starts Off with a Bang

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Category: Research News

Published: Thursday, April 01 2010 00:00

On Tuesday, March 30, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, did for the first time what it was created to do, smash together beams of elementary particles at extremely high levels of energy.

Scientists at the LHC collided two proton beams, each with energies of 3.5 TeV (trillion electron volts)- the highest energies ever achieved by a man-made particle accelerator!

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Nick Hadley joins The Marc Steiner Show to talk about the LHC.

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Published: Wednesday, March 31 2010 09:55

http://www.steinershow.org/radio/the-marc-steiner-show/march-30-2010-segment-2

Revolutionary New Solution for Semiconductor; Nano Materials

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Category: Research News

Published: Thursday, March 25 2010 16:22

University of Maryland researchers have created a completely new way to produce high quality semiconductor materials critical for advanced microelectronics and nanotechnology. Published in the March 26 issue of Science, their research is a fundamental step forward in nanomaterials science that could lead to significant advances in computer chips, photovoltaic cells, biomarkers and other applications, according to the authors and other experts.

Led by Min Ouyang, an assistant professor in the department of physics, the University of Maryland team has created a process that uses chemical thermodynamics to produce a broad range of different combination materials, each with a shell of structurally perfect mono-crystal semiconductor around a metal core.

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