UMD Research Changes Lives: Colin Savage ’26, who grew up with asthma, is part of a team of UMD faculty and students developing a scientific method to help the 28 million Americans like him with the disease, by engineering molecules to identify and destroy the protein responsible for excess mucus secretion.
The Flying Follies, a University of Maryland performance group from 1957 to 1970, brought song and dance, comedy, baton twirling, mime and even burlesque to U.S. troops stationed around the world.
The tech giant Meta is using a University of Maryland–led safety framework to test its new multimodal AI model, underscoring how academic research is central to ensuring advanced systems are ready for deployment.
