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UMBC receives $2.8M from NSF for master’s program to prepare a diverse environmental science workforce
An interdisciplinary team of UMBC professors has received $2.8 million from the National Science Foundation to create a new master’s program focused on developing a more diverse environmental...
Posted: September 18, 2019, 8:44 PM
Meet six Retrievers who went from internship to career success with UMBC Career Center support
Decades after the start of the internship boom, internships continue to be invaluable for both undergraduate and graduate students. As UMBC students demonstrate, gaining real-world experience and...
Posted: September 13, 2019, 3:16 PM
National Institute on Aging funds UMBC’s Erin Green to investigate how cells do “quality control” as we age
As we get older, our body systems just don’t work quite like they used to. Why this happens is still somewhat murky. Erin Green, assistant professor of biological sciences, has just received a...
Posted: September 10, 2019, 4:57 PM
Open spaces nurture open minds in UMBC’s new Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Building
This fall, hundreds of Retrievers will set foot in UMBC’s new Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Building for the first time. They may be inspired by the vibrant art installation, find a quiet nook...
Posted: August 26, 2019, 6:49 PM
UMBC’s Stephen Freeland receives Trotter Prize for pioneering origins-of-life research
This spring, Stephen Freeland, director of individualized studies and associate professor of biological sciences, received the Texas A&M Trotter Prize in Information, Complexity, and...
Posted: August 6, 2019, 7:59 PM
UMBC’s Tom Cronin, mantis shrimp vision expert, receives international Rank Prize for Optoelectronics
Tom Cronin, professor of biological sciences, and his longtime colleague, Justin Marshall, professor at the University of Queensland in Australia, have received the 2020 Rank Prize for...
Posted: July 12, 2019, 12:59 PM
Phage Hunters: Popular UMBC research program opens doors to biotech careers
Viet Dang ’18, biological sciences, originally imagined pursuing medical school after UMBC. But when he took the Phage Hunters course to fulfill his genetics requirement, that changed. “The Phage...
Posted: June 24, 2019, 9:03 PM
CNMS celebrates a year of growth in partnerships to support student success
When Bill LaCourse became dean of UMBC’s College of Natural and Mathematical Sciences (CNMS) in 2012, he had three top priorities in mind: innovate undergraduate science education to boost...
Posted: June 14, 2019, 9:18 PM
UMBC’s Jeff Leips receives NIH grant to explore how genes affect immune system function as we age
As we age, our immune systems don’t work as well as they did when we were younger. That phenomenon is called immunosenescence, and it’s not exclusive to humans. The decline of the immune system...
Posted: June 13, 2019, 3:17 PM
UMBC’s Hua Lu works to decode plant defense system, with an eye on improving farming and medicine
UMBC’s Hua Lu, professor of biological sciences, and colleagues have found new genetic links between a plant’s circadian rhythm (essentially, an internal clock) and its ability to fend off...
Posted: June 12, 2019, 4:20 PM
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