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UMBC celebrates 2018 Presidential Faculty and Staff Award winners
UMBC’s Presidential Faculty and Staff Awards offer a chance to reflect, each year, on the essential contributions of university employees to making UMBC a welcoming, supportive, and successful...
Posted: April 10, 2018, 8:13 PM
Two species of ravens nevermore? UMBC research finds strong evidence of “speciation reversal”
For over a century, speciation—where one species splits into two—has been a central focus of evolutionary research. But a new study almost 20 years in the making suggests “speciation...
Posted: March 2, 2018, 2:24 PM
UMBC’s Top 12 Highlights of 2017
The calendar may have flipped to 2018, but there are so many great milestones achieved by the UMBC community to recognize from 2017. Here are twelve top highlights: 1. Rhodes Scholar Naomi...
Posted: January 12, 2018, 3:43 PM
UMBC launches program to prep students for biotech careers in partnership with Montgomery College and The Universities at Shady Grove
A new degree program developed jointly by UMBC and Montgomery College (MC), and soon to be offered at The Universities at Shady Grove (USG), will create opportunities for students of all...
Posted: January 10, 2018, 4:20 PM
UMBC study challenges established paradigm, suggests males pickier than females in mate choice
“Males are showy, females are choosy” has been the accepted paradigm in sexual selection research for decades. By extension, scientists expect females to carefully select members of their own...
Posted: December 19, 2017, 8:42 PM
UMBC biologists discuss human health applications of studying plants’ circadian rhythms in The Conversation
Humans have been observing the circadian rhythms of plants for millennia, even if they couldn’t fully explain what they saw. In a new piece for The Conversation, Hua Lu, associate professor of...
Posted: December 1, 2017, 8:06 PM
Undergraduate Research Symposium award winners embody success of UMBC STEM BUILD program
This fall, hundreds of students from across the East Coast gathered to present their research and compete for awards at UMBC’s Undergraduate Research Symposium in the Chemical and Biological...
Posted: November 22, 2017, 7:42 PM
Naomi Mburu receives first Rhodes Scholarship in UMBC history
Naomi Mburu ’18, chemical engineering, is the first student in UMBC history to receive the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship. She is one of 32 students from across the United States to receive this...
Posted: November 19, 2017, 2:25 PM
20th Undergraduate Research Symposium shines a light on students’ diverse contributions to science
UMBC’s Undergraduate Research Symposium for the Chemical and Biological Sciences has become a destination for young researchers across the Eastern Seaboard, and it’s still growing. This year’s...
Posted: November 1, 2017, 8:36 PM
UMBC faculty awarded NSF grant to shrink tumors with heat and nanoparticles
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded funding to a group of UMBC faculty in two colleges to study how applying heat to drug-carrying nanoparticles can cause tumors to shrink. The...
Posted: October 18, 2017, 8:20 PM
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