The flagship in College Park, a research powerhouse in physics, quantum science, computing, and journalism at the doorstep of the nation's capital.
11 professors and academic leaders celebrated so far, cited on every card. A small, growing selection, not a roster of the faculty. In pursuit of every professor, everywhere.
President
Office of the President
Thank you for leading Maryland with an engineer's optimism since 2020, making doing good the university's grand challenge.
Senior Vice President and Provost
Office of the Senior Vice President and Provost
Thank you for stewarding Maryland's academic enterprise as provost, with scholarship on education finance that always kept equity in view.
Clark Leadership Chair in Science, Distinguished University Professor and Regents Professor
Department of Physics
Thank you for supersymmetry, Adinkras, and a lifetime of explaining the deepest physics to the public, service honored with the National Medal of Science.
Distinguished University Professor and College Park Professor
Department of Physics
Thank you for cooling atoms with laser light, work honored with the Nobel Prize, and for decades of joyful public science shared between NIST and College Park.
Distinguished University Professor, Director and Richard E. Prange Chair
Department of Physics
Thank you for the condensed matter theory behind topological quantum computing and for making College Park a world center of the field.
Distinguished University Professor
Department of Biology
Thank you for evo-devo, for Endless Forms Most Beautiful, and for films and books that let everyone see how evolution actually works.
Paul Chrisman Iribe Professor of Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering; Distinguished University Professor
Department of Computer Science
Thank you for geometric computing and motion planning that moved from theory into cars, games, and robots that navigate the real world.
Distinguished University Professor of Economics
Department of Economics
Thank you for a career spent measuring the real economy honestly, from leading the Bureau of Labor Statistics to the classroom in College Park.
Emeritus Professor, Computer Science
Department of Computer Science
Thank you for the highlighted clickable link, the treemap, and human-centered AI, a lifetime of insisting that computers serve people.
Distinguished University Professor; Chair, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Anthony Ephremides Professor in Information Sciences and Systems
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Thank you for the information theory of wireless networks and for leading Maryland's electrical and computer engineers as chair.
Knight Chair in Public Affairs Journalism; Professor
Philip Merrill College of Journalism
Thank you for the reporting that revealed secret prisons and the neglect of veterans at Walter Reed, journalism honored with two Pulitzer Prizes, now passed on to the next generation.
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A celebration of the faculty and academic leaders of University of Maryland, assembled entirely from public information as an act of credit and gratitude. It is not a claim of endorsement, affiliation, sponsorship, or partnership by anyone featured or by the university. Every person is real and publicly documented, with a cited source of truth on their card; we never invent a person or a claim, and we prize accuracy over speed. Anyone featured can ask to be updated or removed at any time. Names and marks belong to their owners.