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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
Spider Glue’s Sticky Secret Revealed By New Genetic Research
By Sarah Stellwagen, postdoctoral researcher in biological sciences, UMBC What do all of the over 45,000 described spider species on Earth have in common? Each makes at least one type of silk....
Posted: June 5, 2019, 3:37 PM
UMBC’s Sarah Stellwagen first in world to sequence genes for spider glue
Today in Genes, Genomes, Genetics, UMBC postdoctoral fellow Sarah Stellwagen and co-author Rebecca Renberg at the Army Research Lab published the first-ever complete sequences of two genes that...
Posted: June 5, 2019, 2:09 PM
From dream to drive to degree: Five UMBC journeys
Earning a degree isn’t just a milestone, it’s a special kind of growth experience full of challenges and doubts, inspiration and opportunity. Depending on their path, some students face particular...
Posted: May 14, 2019, 1:42 PM
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