Director's WelcomeThe mission of the Institute for Physical Science and Technology (IPST) is to foster excellence in interdisciplinary research and education at the University of Maryland. IPST accomplishes this by Integrating People, Science and Technology. Our selective and highly ranked graduate programs in the fields of Applied Mathematics, Applied Statistics, Chemical Physics, Maryland Biophysics, and Scientific Computation provide specialized training at the intersection of traditional fields, and are a central component of our mission. |
News and Special EventsScientists discover a new type of interaction between urea and RNADec. 2, 2009. In the November 30, 2009 issue of the Chemical & Engineering News, Volume 87, Number 48, page 29, the team led by Dave Thirumalai (IPST, UMCP) and Alexander D. MacKerell Jr. (UMBC) now reports all-atom molecular dynamics simulations that reveal how urea hydrogen bonds and stacks with RNA’s bases, making normal interaction between bases impossible. Scientific ethics course to be taught by IPST facultyDec. 2, 2009. Ethical conduct by scientists and students is generally assumed; however recently a number of very serious events have shown that informal oral tradition is often insufficient for informing scientists of the proper ethical standards for their work. In response to this, and general National Institutes of Health (NIH) requirements that graduate students working in NIH laboratories receive training in scientific ethics, a new course is being offered – Case Studies in Scientific Ethics (CHPH 714) – which will be taught Winter Term 2010 by Charles Clark. The availability of this course was mentioned to the National Science Foundation (NSF) review panel that visited the Joint Quantum Institute Physics Frontiers Center on November 9, 2009 and the panel was enthusiastic about the offering. For more information, visit the new Ethical Conduct of Research portal on our site. |
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College of Computer, Mathematical, and Physical Sciences
Updated: February 4, 2010
University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742-2431
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