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UMBC develops future STEM teachers, researchers through pilot program pairing high school and college students
This fall, Kimani Reed will enter UMBC as a new student in the pre-nursing program, but she’s already a member of the UMBC community. Through a partnership between UMBC and Cristo Rey Jesuit High...
Posted: July 20, 2020, 1:48 PM
Mantis shrimp eyes get even wilder: UMBC team finds twice the expected number of light-detecting proteins
Mantis shrimps have earned wide acclaim in popular culture for their punching limbs, bright colors, and, perhaps most of all, their unusual eyes. “Everybody knows about them now,” says Tom Cronin,...
Posted: July 17, 2020, 6:05 PM
How the darter got its stripes: New UMBC research expands on sexual selection theory to explain complicated animal patterns
Samuel Hulse, Ph.D. candidate in biological sciences, has spent a lot of time in waders over the last two years. He has traipsed from stream to stream across the eastern U.S., carefully collecting...
Posted: May 22, 2020, 12:44 PM
Acting locally and globally: Four UMBC students embark on community-engaged careers
Community-engaged work has been integral to the UMBC experience for Joseph Mayhew, M.A. ‘20, TESOL; Kiplyn Jones, M.A. ‘20, public policy; Malgorzata Bondyra ‘20, management of aging services; and...
Posted: May 20, 2020, 3:51 PM
Support comes full circle: When students become mentors
In 2015, Cherie Tebah’s dream of providing dental care in marginalized communities was shattered when she sustained injuries while in the U.S. military. Tebah, who is originally from Ghana, had...
Posted: May 19, 2020, 2:55 PM
Unique research experiences open doors for UMBC’s Class of 2020
Danilo Symonette, Robin Bailey, and Hye-Jin Park are earning their UMBC degrees this month having researched in top labs and being invited to present their findings to colleagues across the...
Posted: May 18, 2020, 4:00 PM
UMBC to receive $7.7 M for U-RISE, a research training program focused on STEM leadership
Since it launched at UMBC in 1997, the MARC U*STAR Program has connected nearly 500 hundred UMBC students with research opportunities and invaluable support. After years of remarkable results, the...
Posted: April 29, 2020, 4:17 PM
Scholar-athlete grads draw on resilience forged in challenging times
Kennedy Lamb and Jethro Ssengonzi are finishing their final semester with uncertainty about the world, but also a sense of hope. To cope with the challenges of graduating during the COVID-19...
Posted: April 28, 2020, 4:07 AM
UMBC’s Rickesh Patel determines how mantis shrimp find their way home
Mantis shrimps have earned fame for their powerful punching limbs, incredibly unusual eyes, and vivid exoskeletons. And, it turns out, they’re also really good at finding their way home. Through a...
Posted: April 9, 2020, 3:17 PM
UMBC’s Tagide deCarvalho wins Olympus Image of the Year contest with striking portrait of a “water bear”
UMBC’s Tagide deCarvalho has won the 2019 Olympus Image of the Year Global Life Science Light Microscopy Award, Americas division. The award recognizes the “very best in life science imaging...
Posted: April 2, 2020, 6:27 PM
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