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🀫 Faculty Β· πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ College Park, United States

Gratitude to the University of Maryland faculty.

The flagship in College Park, a research powerhouse in physics, quantum science, computing, and journalism at the doorstep of the nation's capital.

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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.

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Darryll Pines

Leadership

President

Office of the President

university leadershipaerospace engineering
Why we celebrate them

Thank you for leading Maryland with an engineer's optimism since 2020, making doing good the university's grand challenge.

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Jennifer King Rice

Leadership

Senior Vice President and Provost

Office of the Senior Vice President and Provost

academic leadershipeducation policy
Why we celebrate them

Thank you for stewarding Maryland's academic enterprise as provost, with scholarship on education finance that always kept equity in view.

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Sylvester James Gates, Jr.

Faculty

Clark Leadership Chair in Science, Distinguished University Professor and Regents Professor

Department of Physics

National Medal of Science (2011)
supersymmetrystring theoryscience communication
Why we celebrate them

Thank you for supersymmetry, Adinkras, and a lifetime of explaining the deepest physics to the public, service honored with the National Medal of Science.

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William Phillips

Faculty

Distinguished University Professor and College Park Professor

Department of Physics

Nobel Prize in Physics (1997)
laser coolingatomic physicsquantum science
Why we celebrate them

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.

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Sankar Das Sarma

Faculty

Distinguished University Professor, Director and Richard E. Prange Chair

Department of Physics

condensed matter theorytopological quantum computing
Why we celebrate them

Thank you for the condensed matter theory behind topological quantum computing and for making College Park a world center of the field.

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Sean B. Carroll

Faculty

Distinguished University Professor

Department of Biology

evolutionary developmental biologyscience storytelling
Why we celebrate them

Thank you for evo-devo, for Endless Forms Most Beautiful, and for films and books that let everyone see how evolution actually works.

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Dinesh Manocha

Faculty

Paul Chrisman Iribe Professor of Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering; Distinguished University Professor

Department of Computer Science

roboticsgeometric computingautonomous systems
Why we celebrate them

Thank you for geometric computing and motion planning that moved from theory into cars, games, and robots that navigate the real world.

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Katharine Abraham

Faculty

Distinguished University Professor of Economics

Department of Economics

labor economicseconomic measurementpublic statistics
Why we celebrate them

Thank you for a career spent measuring the real economy honestly, from leading the Bureau of Labor Statistics to the classroom in College Park.

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Ben Shneiderman

Emeritus

Emeritus Professor, Computer Science

Department of Computer Science

human-computer interactioninformation visualizationhuman-centered AI
Why we celebrate them

Thank you for the highlighted clickable link, the treemap, and human-centered AI, a lifetime of insisting that computers serve people.

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A. James Clark School of Engineering

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Sennur Ulukus

Faculty

Distinguished University Professor; Chair, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Anthony Ephremides Professor in Information Sciences and Systems

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

information theorywireless networksfederated learning
Why we celebrate them

Thank you for the information theory of wireless networks and for leading Maryland's electrical and computer engineers as chair.

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Philip Merrill College of Journalism

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Dana Priest

Faculty

Knight Chair in Public Affairs Journalism; Professor

Philip Merrill College of Journalism

Pulitzer Prize (2006 and 2008)
investigative journalismnational security reporting
Why we celebrate them

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.