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href="/about/news/2025-04/student-research-team-creates-visual-tracking-software-study-fish-wins-umd">Student Research Team that Creates Visual Tracking Software to Study Fish Wins UMD Libraries’ 2025 Gemstone Research Award</a> </h2> <div class="feed-item-description"> <div class="news-article-teaser-image"> <img src="/sites/default/files/styles/optimized/public/2025-03/Gemstone%20Awards%202025%20-%20Winners%20%28news%20item%29.jpg?itok=4yvE3Ijj" alt="Team FSH with Librarian mentor Matthew Cain"/> </div> <p>Team FSH edged out Teams HEMD and Valve to clinch the UMD Libraries’ Gemstone Research Award at the finalists presentations on March 26, where each team presented their research to a panel of judges. 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