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UMBC’s Arjun Kanjarpane and Anya Viswanathan receive prestigious Goldwater Scholarships
Arjun Kanjarpane ’24, M32, biochemistry and molecular biology, and Soujanya “Anya” Viswanathan ’24, M32, biological sciences, are the latest UMBC students to be named Goldwater Scholars. By...
Posted: April 11, 2023, 3:05 PM
Deepak Koirala to grow understanding of how enteroviruses replicate with $786K NSF CAREER Award
Diseases such as polio, the common cold, and meningitis are all caused by closely related viruses and the way these viruses multiply in the body is poorly understood. Deepak Koirala, assistant...
Posted: March 13, 2023, 3:17 PM
UMBC humanities faculty receive NEH fellowships for research into “the why and how of our past”
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has announced that George Derek Musgrove ‘97, associate professor of history, and Elizabeth Patton, associate professor of media and communication...
Posted: February 15, 2023, 2:59 PM
Vision beyond sight: UMBC’s Phyllis Robinson to advance study of critical eye protein with $2.5M NIH grant
Most people rely heavily on image-forming vision to navigate the world, but our eyes do much more than help us “see” in the traditional sense. In addition to rod and cone cells that help us...
Posted: October 28, 2022, 4:49 PM
Tackling food insecurity in disasters: UMBC’s Lauren Clay develops a new model through $520K NSF CAREER award
When disasters happen, access to food can be interrupted, which can increase existing food insecurity issues and compound the impact of disasters. Currently, there isn’t a standard tool to measure...
Posted: October 26, 2022, 9:12 AM
UMBC Pres. Valerie Sheares Ashby named 2022 Technologist of the Year
Women of Color Magazine has named UMBC President Valerie Sheares Ashby 2022 Technologist of the Year. Sheares Ashby celebrated the honor surrounded by joyful UMBC students at the Women of Color...
Posted: October 24, 2022, 1:37 PM
UMBC humanities faculty pursue groundbreaking archival research through over $135,000 in prestigious fellowships
Humanities faculty Elizabeth Patton, Mirjam Voerkelius, and Amy Froide have received prestigious research fellowships totaling over $135,000 to explore archives and reveal new findings about...
Posted: October 12, 2022, 8:33 AM
UMBC and University of Maryland School of Medicine receive $13.7M NIH FIRST grant to increase faculty diversity
UMBC and the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) have received a five-year, $13.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to enhance recruitment and training of...
Posted: September 23, 2022, 9:46 AM
UMBC’s new AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellows focus on STEM workforce inclusion, youth justice
Erin Lavik, professor of chemical, biochemical, and environmental engineering at UMBC, is an innovator in developing nanoparticles to stop internal bleeding. She’s also hard at work on a very...
Posted: September 8, 2022, 4:57 PM
UMBC’s Anupam Joshi, cybersecurity innovator, to expand leadership impact as 2022–23 ACE Fellow
Anupam Joshi, a professor focused on both high-impact computing research and expanding access to computer science and cybersecurity education, has been named a 2022–23 American Council on...
Posted: September 2, 2022, 9:36 AM
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