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UMBC’s Ethics Bowl team earns spot in national championship two years in a row
UMBC’s Ethics Bowl team won third place at the 2024 Chesapeake Regional Ethics Bowl competition in December. The team competed at UMBC against 15 teams from the Mid-Atlantic region, all vying for...
Posted: January 13, 2025, 11:29 AM
Astronomers observe real-time formation of black hole jets for the first time
Eileen Meyer (Marlayna Demond ’11/UMBC) A large international team of scientists has observed a phenomenon that astronomers didn’t ever expect to see happen in real time. A new paper published...
Posted: January 13, 2025, 10:18 AM
NASA awards AXIS X-ray telescope co-developed by UMBC faculty $5M for further study
Nearly a year ago, a group of engineers and scientists including UMBC physicists became one of 10 teams to successfully submit a proposal to NASA to develop the Advanced X-ray Imaging Satellite...
Posted: November 12, 2024, 1:45 PM
Quantum photonics expertise earns UMBC spot in DOE Frontiers in Energy Research Center
UMBC has been selected to participate in the Quantum Photonics Integrated Design Center (QuPIDC), which is led by Purdue University and also includes Los Alamos National Laboratory, Stanford...
Posted: September 11, 2024, 10:57 AM
Katherine Carver ’26 is helping astronomers analyze James Webb Space Telescope data
Katherine Carver ’26, physics and mathematics, started off her UMBC experience with a big bang—participating in the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory CIRCUIT internship as a...
Posted: August 1, 2024, 2:24 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
CNMS Awards and Recognition Day honors students, faculty, and staff
The College of Natural and Mathematical Sciences (CNMS) held its annual CNMS Awards and Recognition Day on May 10. Nearly 270 UMBC community members and friends attended the event in the...
Posted: May 17, 2024, 3:55 PM
Month of Earth Day events culminates with 8th Annual Earth Day Symposium
UMBC’s strength in environmental research spans all three colleges and the university’s NASA-partnered centers, and Earth Day is always a special time on campus. This year, UMBC partnered with the...
Posted: May 3, 2024, 3:58 PM
First CNMS GradFest fosters interdepartmental interaction among grads, postdocs
On April 12, more than 150 students, staff, and faculty attended the first College of Natural and Mathematical Sciences (CNMS) GradFest in the University Center Ballroom. The event was the result...
Posted: April 23, 2024, 10:09 AM
First data from UMBC’s HARP2 instrument on NASA PACE mission goes public
Data from NASA’s newest Earth-observing satellite, which will provide insight into ocean health, air quality, and the effects of a changing climate, are now available. The Plankton, Aerosol,...
Posted: April 11, 2024, 3:05 PM
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