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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
VanBriesen named new dean for UMBC’s College of Engineering and Information Technology
The following message was shared with the UMBC community on April 21 to announce the naming of a new dean for the College of Engineering and Information Technology: * * * * * Dear UMBC...
Posted: April 22, 2025, 1:30 PM
Randi Williams ’16: AI technologist and education advocate headlines 2025 URCAD
Williams and a Jibo robot show some UMBC pride. (Photo courtesy of Williams) As a senior in high school in Prince George’s County, Maryland, Randi Williams ’16, computer engineering, was...
Posted: April 11, 2025, 2:34 PM
Top 5 ways URCAD is a uniquely UMBC experience
UMBC’s Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement Day (URCAD) is returning for its 29th year on April 16. For nearly three decades, the annual showcase highlights the research, scholarship,...
Posted: April 9, 2025, 3:16 PM
Students partner with Baltimore community members to measure ‘forever chemicals’ in local waters
On a sunny and unseasonably warm Halloween this past fall, a group of costumed UMBC students strolled the banks of the Inner Harbor in Baltimore. The costumes were in good fun, but the spirit...
Posted: April 2, 2025, 9:53 AM
UMBC team leads research into AI tools that can assess the feasibility of scientific claims
A multidisciplinary team of UMBC researchers was recently awarded $3.8 million from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop new computational methods for assessing the...
Posted: April 1, 2025, 12:31 PM
TowerCares Foundation makes $300,000 commitment to support UMBC cybersecurity students
The TowerCares Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the Laurel, Maryland-based Tower Federal Credit Union, has partnered with UMBC’s Cybersecurity Institute to create a new scholarship fund for...
Posted: March 25, 2025, 11:10 AM
Students celebrate Engineering and Computing Week with fun and networking
Where can UMBC engineering and computing students mingle with friends and mentors over sweet treats, test their knowledge and design skills in friendly competition, and network with potential...
Posted: February 28, 2025, 2:24 PM
Tree sap batteries: Student entrepreneur Samuel Bendek imagines a clean energy future less reliant on critical minerals
When Samuel Bendek, a current mechanical engineering sophomore at UMBC, was still in high school, he worked in a soccer ball factory in his native country of Colombia. At some point, he was given...
Posted: February 25, 2025, 1:45 PM
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