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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
Three UMBC student researchers receive prestigious Goldwater Scholarships
Three UMBC students have been named Barry Goldwater Scholars for the 2020 – 2021 academic year, earning one of the most prestigious scholarships available to U.S. undergraduates. This is the...
Posted: March 30, 2020, 5:35 PM
UMBC researchers offer knowledge, innovation during the time of COVID-19
At a time when information and misinformation are coming at us from all directions, and everyone is looking for answers, UMBC researchers are stepping up. They’re working hard to answer pressing...
Posted: March 30, 2020, 4:23 PM
Vodka won’t protect you from coronavirus, and 4 other things to know about hand sanitizer
by Jeffrey Gardner, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences, UMBC Editor’s note: As concern about coronavirus grows, hand sanitizer is in high demand. Biologist Jeffrey Gardner explains why...
Posted: March 13, 2020, 6:14 PM
International team led by UMBC identifies new bird species in the South Pacific
In the 1930s, famed biologist Ernst Mayr became the first to study Pacific Robins. Based on his observations of the robins and other birds on Australia and its outlying islands, he developed...
Posted: March 6, 2020, 6:36 PM
UMBC Alumnae Racing to Develop Coronavirus Vaccine
Kizzmekia Corbett ’08, M16, biological sciences, says it feels like she’s “living in a constant adrenaline rush.” Maybe that’s because she and her team at the Vaccine Research Center at the...
Posted: March 2, 2020, 10:41 PM
UMBC’s Suzanne Ostrand-Rosenberg recognized for 40-year career advancing cancer immunotherapy
After 41 years at UMBC, Suzanne Ostrand-Rosenberg, professor emerita of biological sciences, retired in August 2018 and moved to Utah to enjoy the mountains with her spouse. But she couldn’t stay...
Posted: February 27, 2020, 8:32 PM
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