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Understanding the Tree of Life: A fresh look at evolution with biology professor Kevin Omland
Kevin Omland, professor of biological sciences, has spent 25 years teaching and researching evolution. His new book, Understanding the Tree of Life, is the latest in the “Understanding Life”...
Posted: September 12, 2025, 12:00 PM
Meet Dean van Briesen: COEIT’s new leader shares her love of teaching and discovery
Chance and faith: These two forces have shaped the trajectory of Jeanne van Briesen’s life (while also inspiring the names for her two Russian Blue cats). It was by chance that she went down the...
Posted: September 9, 2025, 3:33 PM
Reverse discrimination? In spite of the MAGA bluster over DEI, data shows white Americans are still advantaged
Written by Fred L. Pincus, emeritus professor of Sociology, UMBC. Two big assumptions underlie President Donald Trump’s attack on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies. The first is...
Posted: September 9, 2025, 1:21 PM
Explore or exploit: Research with robotics and medical applications that decodes animal decision-making earns NIH grant
A glass knifefish darts back and forth in a short tube, its brain activity being recorded in real time. This small fish, alternating between swift bursts of sensing activity and slower,...
Posted: September 9, 2025, 11:35 AM
Dennis Coates closes out his 30th year at UMBC at the top of his game with an award from the North American Association of Sports Economists
As the Baltimore Orioles gear up for the last months of the baseball season, the Baltimore Ravens are flexing their wings as the regular football season begins in September. For Baltimoreans, that...
Posted: September 5, 2025, 3:38 PM
From Nepal to NASA: A journey of resilience and discovery
In 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted lives worldwide,Greema Regmibegan her Ph.D. in UMBC’s atmospheric physics program. Studying remotely from her home in Nepal, she navigated a grueling...
Posted: August 25, 2025, 2:40 PM
Sweat equity—UMBC’s arts, humanities, and social science interns use campus connections and resources to find ideal summer placements
Used to working in beautiful sunny weather, Giovanna Orfali, a visual arts senior from São Paulo, Brazil, spent this summer behind the camera as a digital content intern at the Maryland Center for...
Posted: August 21, 2025, 11:00 AM
More people are turning to the internet to diagnose themselves—Can this Ph.D. student’s work help moderate medical content on the web?
In 2024, information systems Ph.D. student Ommo Clark penned an opinion piece for BusinessDay Nigeria exploring why many Nigerians diagnose and treat their medical conditions themselves, often...
Posted: August 12, 2025, 3:29 PM
A web of mentorship: Weaving support and arachnid research at UMBC
A web of mentorship, as intricate as the arachnids Mercedes Burns studies, stretches from her UMBC lab to University of North Carolina at Charlotte and University of Nevada, Las Vegas. At the...
Posted: August 12, 2025, 12:53 PM
Jane Austen as an abolitionist? Margie Burns unpacks the loaded history of the phrase “pride and prejudice”
Figuring out what to get someone for their birthday can be both fun and daunting, especially when it’s their 250th birthday. On December 16, 1775, Jane Austen was born in Steventon, Hampshire,...
Posted: August 7, 2025, 12:57 PM
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