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Meet a Retriever—Noah Cruz ’24, first-generation scholar and mentor
Meet Noah Cruz, a senior pursuing B.S. degrees in both psychology and biological sciences on the pre-med/Ph.D. track. As a first generation student and a member of multiple scholars programs, Noah...
Posted: October 5, 2023, 11:27 AM
Why does your hair curl in the summer? A chemist explains the science behind hair structure
Written by Tara S. Carpenter, principal lecturer of chemistry and biochemistry, UMBC If you have curly hair, you know that every day is a new adventure. What will my hair do today? Why does...
Posted: August 11, 2023, 11:22 AM
Graduating students share how unexpected paths and community support got them to where they needed to be
Avi Newman, who is graduating from UMBC this spring, knows all too well about learning to navigate unexpected detours beyond his control. Managing the compounding effects of COVID-19, meant...
Posted: May 16, 2023, 10:37 AM
UMBC’s Chengpeng Chen receives $1.7M NIH grant to develop human liver model
It can take more than 10 years and a billion dollars to get one new drug approved, and less than 10 percent of drugs succeed in clinical trials. Part of the problem is that common techniques used...
Posted: August 26, 2022, 4:02 PM
Better Living Through Chemistry
From cooking and cleaning to fixing your car, understanding chemistry can enlighten all aspects of life. That’s just one reason why Dean William R. LaCourse still loves sharing the joy of his...
Posted: July 6, 2022, 11:16 AM
Creating new antiviral drugs: Katherine Seley-Radtke’s innovative “fleximer” research to receive $3.5M from NIH
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health, recently awarded nine research consortia a total of $577 million to create Antiviral Drug...
Posted: June 10, 2022, 3:38 PM
UMBC faculty and staff award recipients place community at the core of their success
At UMBC’s 2022 Presidential Faculty and Staff Awards (PFASA), Tamra Mendelson, professor of biological sciences and recipient of the 2022 – 2025 Presidential Teaching Professor Award, said she...
Posted: April 7, 2022, 10:12 PM
Viral inventors: UMBC study finds virus DNA orchestrates a critical cellular pathway in bacteria
A protein produced by viral DNA is orchestrating the critical “SOS response” in a large group of bacterial species, according to a new study in Nucleic Acids Research co-led by Ivan Erill,...
Posted: December 9, 2021, 6:54 PM
The Rocky Yet Rewarding Road of Graduate Research
One Halloween evening, a young Amanda Belunis watched her dad arrange dry ice in the kitchen sink. Belunis and her brother thought the chilling fog spilling from the countertop was awesome. Now a...
Posted: August 9, 2021, 6:49 PM
Graduating with gratitude: UMBC welcomes a new class of alumni
Persistent. Innovative. Determined. These are the words UMBC’s commencement speakers returned to again and again to describe the Class of 2021. And despite a year of challenges—missing family and...
Posted: May 24, 2021, 4:54 PM
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