University of Maryland, College Park

College Park, MD
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    264 faculty · 150 courses · data as of 2026-07-02

    Government41 faculty · 21 courses avg h-index 14.3 #30 of 100 in Political Science
    James Gimpel, Professor h-index 34
    Notable: “Economic Insecurity, Prejudicial Stereotypes, and Public Opinion on Immigration Policy” (2000) · 744 citations
    Ernesto Calvo, Professor and Co-Director of Graduate Studies h-index 30
    Notable: “Who Delivers? Partisan Clients in the Argentine Electoral Market” (2004) · 674 citations
    Kathleen Gallagher Cunningham, Professor h-index 25
    Notable: “Shirts Today, Skins Tomorrow” (2012) · 228 citations
    Margaret Pearson, Professor h-index 22
    Notable: “The Business of Governing Business in China: Institutions and Norms of the Emerging Regulatory State” (2005) · 254 citations
    Courses: Introduction to Political Science · Introduction to Political Ethics · American Government · International Political Relations · Scope and Methods for Political Science Research · Law or Politics? The U.S. Supreme Court and Individual Rights +15 more
    Computer Science40 faculty · 18 courses avg h-index 31.4 #26 of 88 in Computer Science
    Heng Huang, Professor, Brendan Iribe Endowed Professor h-index 74
    Notable: “Efficient and Robust Feature Selection via Joint ℓ2,1-Norms Minimization” (2010) · 1,562 citations
    Hal Daumé III, Professor, Volpi-Cupal Endowed Professor h-index 61
    Notable: “Frustratingly Easy Domain Adaptation” (2009) · 1,396 citations
    Calin Belta, Professor, Brendan Iribe Endowed Professor h-index 56
    Notable: “A Fully Automated Framework for Control of Linear Systems from Temporal Logic Specifications” (2008) · 542 citations
    Ramani Duraiswami, Professor h-index 50
    Notable: “Background and foreground modeling using nonparametric kernel density estimation for visual surveillance” (2002) · 1,512 citations
    Courses: Bits and Bytes of Computer and Information Sciences · Introduction to C Programming · Gender, Race and Computing · Introduction to Computer Programming via the Web · Introduction to Computing · Object-Oriented Programming I +12 more
    Mechanical Engineering40 faculty · 18 courses avg h-index 35 #8 of 70 in Mechanical Engineering
    Bo Chen, Assistant Research Scientist h-index 100
    Notable: “2D Transition‐Metal‐Dichalcogenide‐Nanosheet‐Based Composites for Photocatalytic and Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution Reactions” (2015) · 1,444 citations
    Ashwani K. Gupta, Professor h-index 59
    Notable: “Co-pyrolysis of waste plastic and solid biomass for synergistic production of biofuels and chemicals-A review” (2021) · 604 citations
    Yunho Hwang, Professor h-index 57
    Notable: “Demonstration of high efficiency elastocaloric cooling with large ΔT using NiTi wires” (2012) · 501 citations
    James Duncan, Professor Emeritus h-index 49
    Notable: “Nonlinear Analysis of Stress and Strain in Soils” (1970) · 2,380 citations
    Courses: Careers in Mechanical Engineering · Computing Fundamentals for Engineers · Introduction to Automotive Engineering and Design · Introduction to Computer Aided Design · Fluid Mechanics · Transfer Processes +12 more
    Economics40 faculty · 19 courses avg h-index 22.9 #24 of 104 in Economics
    John C. Haltiwanger, Distinguished University Professor; Dudley and Louisa Dillard Professor h-index 87
    Longitudinal establishment data bases and the longitudinal matched employer-employee data bases that are available at the Bureau of the Census CV: Haltiwanger_cv_October_2025.pdf 199.44 KB
    Notable: “Who Creates Jobs? Small versus Large versus Young” (2012) · 1,918 citations
    Maureen Cropper, Distinguished University Professor h-index 50
    Es on the costs and benefits of air pollution control in India, on the health effects of plastics and on the benefits of urban transportation infrastructure. Areas of Interest Valuing Environmental Amenities (Especially Environmental Health
    Notable: “The Lancet Commission on pollution and health” (2017) · 4,818 citations
    Peter Cramton, Professor Emeritus h-index 49
    Market Design Auction Theory and Practice Bargaining Game Theory Behavioral and Experimental Economics CV: Vita of Peter Cramton
    Notable: “The High-Frequency Trading Arms Race: Frequent Batch Auctions as a Market Design Response *” (2015) · 880 citations
    Sebastian Galiani, Professor h-index 47
    Notable: “Catastrophic Natural Disasters and Economic Growth” (2013) · 1,246 citations
    Courses: Thinking Like an Economist · Inequality: Determinants and Policy Remedies · Putting a Price on the Environment: An Economist's Perspective on Sustainability · Energy: Crisis or Breakthrough? · Principles of Microeconomics · Principles of Macroeconomics +13 more
    Biology39 faculty · 18 courses avg h-index 31.8 #23 of 68 in Biology
    Sean Carroll, Distinguished University Professor h-index 87
    The origin of novelty is one of the central questions of evolution. We seek to understand, in general, the relative contributions of different mechanisms – gene co-option, gene duplication and loss, regulatory and protein sequence ch
    Notable: “Evo-Devo and an Expanding Evolutionary Synthesis: A Genetic Theory of Morphological Evolution” (2008) · 2,132 citations
    William Fagan, Distinguished University Professor h-index 79
    My research involves meshing field biology with theoretical models to address critical questions in community ecology and conservation biology. I believe that ecological theory will be strengthened if it is forced to help solve real-world p
    Notable: “TRY – a global database of plant traits” (2011) · 2,669 citations
    Thomas Kocher, Professor h-index 75
    More than 700 species of cichlid fishes have arisen within Lake Malawi within the last million years. We want to understand the evolutionary forces which have caused this rapid speciation. We are mapping genes for phenotypic traits associat
    Notable: “Dynamics of mitochondrial DNA evolution in animals: amplification and sequencing with conserved primers.” (1989) · 5,044 citations
    Philip Johnson, Associate Professor h-index 67
    We develop statistical and mathematical models to make sense of large-scale population genomic data at multiple levels. New types of data from collaborators inspire new types of theory and vice versa. Population genetics provide
    Notable: “An African primate lentivirus (SIVsmclosely related to HIV-2” (1989) · 751 citations
    Courses: The World of Biology · Insects · Plant Biology for Non-Science Students · Plant Biology Laboratory · Pollinators in Crisis · The Insect Apocalypse: Real or Imagined? +12 more
    Public Health25 faculty · 21 courses avg h-index 26.5 #4 of 8 in Public Health
    Jie Chen, Chair, Professor, Director, Health Policy and Management h-index 42
    Health Care Delivery Systems; Health Policy; Care Coordination and System Integration; Health Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence; Health Disparities; Mental Health; Aging Health; Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias Dr.
    Notable: “Long-term exposure to PM and all-cause and cause-specific mortality: A systematic review and meta-analysis” (2020) · 1,026 citations
    Dina Borzekowski, Research Professor, Director Global Health Initiative h-index 35
    Health communication; global health; health education; children and media. Education and Training Courses Awards and Honors Publications B.S., Biology, 1988 Cornell University, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences M.S., Communications
    Notable: “The 30-Second Effect” (2001) · 557 citations
    Héctor E. Alcalá, Assistant Professor h-index 23
    Es on a few areas: 1) Understanding health inequities, particularly around race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, nativity and generation; 2) Examining the impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) on cancer, cancer screening a
    Notable: “Islamophobia, Health, and Public Health: A Systematic Literature Review” (2018) · 190 citations
    Cynthia Baur, Endowed Chair and Director, Horowitz Center for Health Literacy h-index 21
    Health Literacy; Health and Risk Communication; Disease Prevention and Health Promotion; Digital Health; Community Health Education and Training Courses PhD, Communication, 1995 University of California San Diego HLTH674
    Notable: “Ten Attributes of Health Literate Health Care Organizations” (2012) · 478 citations
    Courses: Drug Use and Abuse · Introduction to Behavioral and Community Health · Personal and Community Health · The Corporate Footprint: How Industries Influence the Public's Health · Introduction to Research in Community Health · Unraveling the Human Body: Anatomy and Physiology from a Public Health Perspective +15 more

    Faculty counts are directory headcounts; the named list may be a subset. h-index shown only for ORCID-backed or high-confidence OpenAlex matches. Partial — enrichment ongoing.

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    About University of Maryland, College Park. University of Maryland, College Park in College Park, MD reports an overall acceptance rate of 34.0%, an early-round acceptance rate of 33.0%, an SAT middle 50% of 1360–1520, a class size of 5,849, and a yield of 23.0% based on the most recent Common Data Set filings. Top public university near D.C. with strong CS, engineering, and business programs. Very high median SAT (1465). Strong research connections to federal agencies and tech corridor.