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Possible tectonic activity on Venus may yield insight into Earth’s past
Vast, quasi-circular features on Venus’ surface may reveal that the planet has ongoing tectonics, according to new research. On Earth, the shifting and recycling of tectonic plates continually...
Posted: May 14, 2025, 3:34 PM
Public law for public good
On a fall Saturday morning, Mohammad Arshad, an information systems senior, greeted clients arriving at the Erickson School of Aging Studies looking for a fresh start with the help of UMBC’s first...
Posted: May 14, 2025, 2:48 PM
Finding the harmony within art and science
At UMBC, undergraduate students are redefining the boundaries of scientific and artistic pursuits. From a chemical engineer who graces the stage with his cello to a bioinformatician who paints and...
Posted: May 13, 2025, 9:16 AM
Three UMBC juniors receive prestigious Goldwater Scholarships
Lea-Pearl Njei, biological sciences; Caly Ferguson, mechanical engineering; and Jariatu Kargbo, biological sciences, have each received the prestigious Goldwater Scholarship for the 2025 – 2026...
Posted: May 9, 2025, 2:55 PM
Evan McRae ’25 paired his computer science degree with a music focused-individualized studies major and followed his family’s Retriever legacy
Before Evan McRae came to UMBC, Tess McRae—his sister—was a student here. So was Evan and Tess’s mother—Sharon McRae.You might say being a legacy Retriever was a family tradition. With Evan...
Posted: May 7, 2025, 3:37 PM
UMBC’s CIDER program supports new Hilltop Institute-led Medicaid study, other cross-collaborative projects
UMBC researchers are collaborating on a study that takes a closer look at specific diagnosis coding patterns that focus on societal factors that potentially influence the health of Maryland’s...
Posted: May 2, 2025, 3:04 PM
Deporting international students risks making the US a less attractive destination, putting its economic engine at risk
Written by David L. Di Maria, vice provost for Global Engagement, UMBC In early April 2025, the Trump administration terminated the immigration statuses of thousands of international students...
Posted: May 1, 2025, 12:53 PM
Janerra Allen, Ph.D. ’25: A first-generation engineering college grad uplifts fellow students
Janerra Allen, Ph.D. ’25, electrical engineering, studies electrical signals in the brain, looking for patterns that might help doctors diagnose or treat mental disorders such as schizophrenia. As...
Posted: April 30, 2025, 11:13 AM
Maryland Energy Administration awards UMBC $1.2 million for solar panels and more
UMBC has received a $1.2 million solar energy grant from the Maryland Energy Administration (MEA) to support solar power installations on campus and other sustainability initiatives. The...
Posted: April 25, 2025, 4:33 PM
Popular AIs head-to-head: OpenAI beats DeepSeek on sentence-level reasoning
Written by Manas Gaur, assistant professor in computer science and electrical engineering, UMBC ChatGPT and other AI chatbots based on large language models are known to occasionally make...
Posted: April 25, 2025, 2:56 PM
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