Healing, productivity and even happiness can be directly connected to the spaces you inhabit, students are discovering in “Neuroscience for Architecture,” the University of Maryland’s first class to explore how the nervous system responds to building designs.
Land ownership patterns established in the days of homesteaders, railroad tycoons and the relentless westward expansion of the United States into areas taken from Native tribes still influence economic outcomes today, new research from the University of Maryland has found.
“IRIS Reads,” a new virtual reality game led by Terps, helps kids learn letters, build words, and connect sight and sound as they race through obstacles in a fantasy world—while still in their classrooms.
