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Who is AI for? Eric Stokan receives USM professorship to address barriers and promote AI equity for students and faculty
For tech-savvy individuals like Eric Stokan, artificial intelligence, programming languages, and open-source software are powerful tools that can turn once-impossible ideas into reality....
Posted: October 9, 2025, 5:19 PM
Who is AI for? Eric Stokan receives USM professorship to address barriers and promote AI equity for students and faculty
For tech-savvy individuals like Eric Stokan, artificial intelligence, programming languages, and open-source software are powerful tools that can turn once-impossible ideas into reality....
Posted: October 9, 2025, 5:19 PM
Quantum on track: UMBC researchers demonstrate feasibility of using quantum devices to manage urban train scheduling, using a Baltimore transit line as a model
Train delays can cascade into stalled commutes, economic losses, and vacation snags. Scheduling trains is computationally complex, though: It can take hours or days to solve large transportation...
Posted: September 17, 2025, 10:41 AM
500 days in space and counting—UMBC celebrates HARP2 satellite’s incoming data and resulting discoveries
For over 500 days, the Hyper-Angular Rainbow Polarimeter 2 (HARP2), a high-tech instrument built by UMBC researchers and students, has been orbiting Earth on NASA’s Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean...
Posted: September 17, 2025, 9:23 AM
Following where curiosity leads them—COEIT celebrates student summer research
Students from across the College of Engineering and Information Technology (COEIT) spent the summer diving into research—embarking on new projects or deepening their focus. The college celebrated...
Posted: September 16, 2025, 2:42 PM
A new world order isn’t coming, it’s already here − and this is what it looks like
Written by John Rennie Short, professor emeritus of public policy, UMBC On Sept. 3, 2025, China celebrated the 80th anniversary of its victory over Japan by staging a carefully choreographed...
Posted: September 16, 2025, 12:25 PM
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
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