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Creating Queer Arab Joy
Seven years ago, Mejdulene Bernard Shomali began a search for her queer Arab women “banat” ancestors. Shomali, a queer Palestinian poet, was looking for mirrors and searching for hope in other...
Posted: July 31, 2023, 1:54 PM
UMBC’s Achuth Padmanabhan to pursue promising ovarian cancer research with $1.5 million in grants
No one wants to receive a cancer diagnosis. Ovarian cancer can be particularly scary, because its vague symptoms make it difficult to detect early—and when caught late, after the cancer has...
Posted: July 26, 2023, 5:54 PM
UMBC alum leads successful pilot of method for monitoring biodiversity on farms
Research led by Adam Dixon, Ph.D. ’21, geography and environmental systems, describes the successful pilot of a novel method to study how well grassland birds are faring on croplands. The study,...
Posted: July 26, 2023, 9:20 AM
UMBC teams with the Navy and the University of Arizona to develop new capabilities for hypersonic flight
When the Wright brothers first launched their famous plane off the tall sand dunes near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, it flew slower than a person can run. Now, military fighter jets routinely rip...
Posted: June 23, 2023, 11:31 AM
UMBC’s 2023 Cybersecurity Exploratory Project Awardees Announced
UMBC’s Cybersecurity Leadership Task Force has recently awarded funding to seven exploratory projects on cybersecurity education and research, with a goal of enhancing UMBC’s role as a leader in...
Posted: June 14, 2023, 2:38 PM
Shared Stories, Shared Purpose
On a warm and bright sunny day in April when the trees in Baltimore City’s Patterson Park are changing from bright green buds to full leaf and the birds are competing with the car horns, Viridiana...
Posted: June 8, 2023, 7:47 PM
Open to Interpretation
What if you could ask yourself a big question and then use your intuition to follow it wherever it led for as long as it took? It would take a certain kind of guts, right? But, with a willingness...
Posted: June 8, 2023, 7:21 PM
X-ray emissions from black hole jets vary unexpectedly, challenging leading model of particle acceleration
Researchers discovered only relatively recently that black hole jets emit x-rays, and how the jets accelerate particles to this high-energy state is still a mystery. Surprising new findings in...
Posted: June 5, 2023, 3:52 PM
UMBC leads research into light-based timing and navigation technologies for DOD-funded consortium
Every day, radio signals from GPS satellites help millions of people figure out what time it is and where they are. Yet the system is vulnerable to disruptions and attacks. Sometimes users are...
Posted: June 2, 2023, 12:32 PM
Writing your way through your own history—and sharing the narrative
Family stories, told honestly, reach people in ways that reams of advice and pages in history books cannot. When personal narratives reach the classroom, students respond by opening up, say two...
Posted: June 1, 2023, 1:07 PM
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