A hearty welcome to new BBI-PSYC assistant professor Dr. Evan Hart!

Thanks to funds from #UMD’s Grand Challenges Grant Program, MILE is taking on the grand challenge of inequity in literacy so that all Maryland children can have a bright future regardless of their race, ethnicity or first language. research.umd.edu/mile | #FearlesslyUMD

Is it possible to gain the effects of training without years of practice? A new $2.3M NIH award will allow Melissa Caras (Melissa Caras) to examine connections between the brain’s auditory and orbitofrontal cortices to identify the neural basis of expertise. today.umd.edu/no-pain-some-g…

Autism spectrum disorder often entails issues with attention or listening—particularly distractibility by background noise. New research by Nikolas Francis (@sanacerebri) and Behtash Babadi examines the neural networks that may underpin these symptoms. today.umd.edu/autism-researc…

Check out our 2023 summer #ReadingList for #ScienceTerps, with books recommended by CMNS faculty members about #MachineLearning, molecular science and more 📚 go.umd.edu/cmnsreads23

VP for Research Gregory F. Ball delivered an honorary keynote address at the annual SBN Tweets meeting last week after receiving the 2023 Daniel S. Lehrman Award in recognition of his lifetime achievements as a distinguished researcher. Congratulations, Dr. Ball!

Congratulations to PSYCTerps Associate Professor @ajshackman, who is delving into the factors governing anxiety-fueled drinking with support from a new five-year, $3.1 million award from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA).

With an NIH fellowship, umdnacs #GraduateStudent Rose Ying works to uncover the brain's biological mechanisms responsible for #PerceptualLearning. Read how Rose went from being an AAUS research diver to researching auditory neurocircuitry w/ Melissa Caras: go.umd.edu/rying

I loved reading this Brain and Behavior Institute/Univ. of Maryland Today article about the important work HESP Professor Yasmeen Faroqi-Shah and PSYCTerps Associate Professor L. Robert Slevc are doing to help people with aphasia. Consider giving it a read below. today.umd.edu/umd-researcher…

Welcome back, #ScienceTerps! We hope you’re having a fantastic first day of class, and we are so excited for another year of learning together ❤️🐢💛

Funded by a $1.9M NIH award, BBI collaborators Matt Roesch and Anna Li will establish the role of the anterior cingulate cortex in drug-seeking behavior and look into the possibility of manipulating its function through cutting-edge epigenetic tools. 🔗 today.umd.edu/how-repairing-…

Congrats to my longtime friend and Matthew R Roesch and colleague AnnaLi.Lab! umdnacs and BSOS @ UMD

As we age, hearing difficulties can disrupt daily life and isolate us from the world. #UMD researchers find hearing loss isn’t just about hearing—and pioneer new trainings to help our brains sort through overlapping chatter and noise. go.umd.edu/45fnmXe | #FearlesslyUMD

#UMD education and psychology researchers–led by #EdTerps Nathan Fox and Brenda Jones Harden and BSOS @ UMD's @TracyRigginsPhd–have begun recruiting pregnant participants for the largest-ever long-term study of early brain and child development in the US. brnw.ch/21wDonL

WONDERFUL FINAL DAY of the NCI Nanotechnology Annual PI meeting! HUGE APPLAUSE FOR ALL He Lab presenters Wenquan Ou, Hyeyeon Gong, and James G. Shamul!!👏👏👏Congrats to James G. Shamul for winning Most Outstanding Poster award!! 🥳🎊 Excited for next year’s meeting! National Cancer Institute UMD Bioengineering

Congrats to UMD Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry's Peter Nemes, Biology's Colenso Speer and a team of #UMD students and alums for landing their interdisciplinary research on the cover of ACS Analytical Chemistry Journals! The team studied an important developmental stage linked to #CircadianRhythm. go.umd.edu/circadian

Congratulations to UMD Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry's Peter Nemes on receiving a CZI Science grant! Using #CuttingEdge technologies developed in the Peter Nemes, Peter will lead a project aimed at understanding the role of metabolism and #GeneExpression in cell development. go.umd.edu/czi-grant

It’s been a great year for research at Univ. of Maryland! Take a look back at the research highlights of 2023 in this special edition of the Research Roundup: A Year in Review.🐢 go.umd.edu/47U5EdZ