UMD

British  

noun

1. Universal Media Disc: an optical disc used to store games, films, or music

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Example Sentences

"This technique is really the only one that can probe all three dimensions at once: latitude, longitude and altitude," said the paper's co-lead author Megan Weiner Mansfield, an assistant professor of astronomy at UMD.

From Science Daily

Led by Po-Yen Chen, assistant professor in UMD's Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, the accelerated method to create aerogel materials used in wearable heating applications -- published June 1 in the journal Nature Communications- could automate design processes for new materials.

From Science Daily

His work has been supported by a UMD Grand Challenges Team Project Grant for the programmable design of natural plastic substitutes, jointly awarded to UMD Mechanical Engineering Professor Teng Li.

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"The current programs are backward looking, so if a participant withdraws early from the contract, they must pay back all the money they received through the program," said David Newburn, an associate professor of agricultural and resource economics at UMD and a co-author of the study.

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"If you think of the planet as a living organism, when you accumulate so much salt it could affect the functioning of vital organs or ecosystems," said Kaushal, who holds a joint appointment in UMD's Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center.

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