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“Hidden” sex differences in neurological reward pathways suggest opportunity for improved psychiatric therapeutics
A new study in the Journal of Neurosciencehas discovered underlying sex differences in the molecular pathways that drive reward-related behaviors. In particular, the study found differences and...
Posted: June 14, 2024, 4:18 PM
Ph.D. candidate Emily Faber improving climate modeling with NOAA fellowship
Over the last two years, Emily Faber, Ph.D. candidate in atmospheric physics, painstakingly replicated part of a NASA climate model on UMBC computing systems. She compared the model’s predictions...
Posted: June 14, 2024, 12:00 PM
Watch: A recap of UMBC-led NASA Dissipation sounding rocket launch
Planetary scientist Mehdi Benna of UMBC’s Center for Space Sciences and Technology, along with a team of collaborators, recently released a video recounting the launch of NASA’s Dissipation...
Posted: June 13, 2024, 10:05 AM
China turns to private hackers as it cracks down on online activists on Tiananmen Square anniversary
Written by Christopher K. Tong, associate professor of Asian studies at UMBC Every year ahead of the June 4 commemoration of the Tiananmen Square massacre, the Chinese government tightens...
Posted: June 7, 2024, 1:05 PM
Rotting sargassum is choking the Caribbean’s white sand beaches, fueling an economic and public health crisis
Written by Farah Nibbs, assistant professor of emergency and disaster health systems at UMBC The Caribbean’s sandy beaches, clear turquoise water and vibrant coral reefs filled with an...
Posted: June 4, 2024, 2:59 PM
How to count time: Professor Curtis Menyuk brings his expertise in optics to an age-old problem
Time—We buy it and spend it, save it and waste it; it seems to race by as we watch our children grow or drag on in the last hour of a Friday work day. Shakespeare marked “time’s thievish progress”...
Posted: June 3, 2024, 1:26 PM
Molly Mollica wins American Heart Association Career Development Award
Molly Mollica, an assistant professor in mechanical engineering who joined UMBC in August 2023, has been selected for an American Heart Association (AHA) Career Development Award, which will...
Posted: June 3, 2024, 12:57 PM
UMBC statistician selected to work with Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia
Yehenew Kifle, assistant professor of statistics at UMBC, has been awarded a fellowship by the Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program (CADFP). Kifle will travel to Addis Ababa University...
Posted: May 24, 2024, 10:39 AM
Peter Wilschke ’24, political science and economics, publishes empirical research as the sole author in the State and Local Government Review journal
Peter Wilschke’s weeks leading up to graduation have been filled with unexpected excitement. His article “Political Drivers of State Fiscal Cyclicality” has been accepted for publication in the...
Posted: May 23, 2024, 12:56 PM
Lee Blaney awarded funding to develop new ways to remove “forever chemicals” from water
Professor Lee Blaney, in the Department of Chemical, Biochemical, and Environmental Engineering, received $750,000 in funding from the Department of Defense’s Strategic Environmental Research and...
Posted: May 16, 2024, 2:39 PM
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