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UMBC hosts 11th International Digital Storytelling Conference
For nearly two decades, UMBC faculty and students have been deeply engaged in story-driven research. The UMBC community’s contributions to this humanities-centered scholarship has included...
Posted: September 20, 2023, 1:36 PM
Justin Webster receives NSF grant to study mathematical models behind oscillation of plane wings, bridges, energy harvesters
Although objects like bridges, buildings, and airplane wings may seem quite rigid, by design they are capable of a surprising deal of bending. This elasticity allows them to deform safely and...
Posted: September 6, 2023, 2:15 PM
Should AI be permitted in college classrooms? 4 scholars weigh in
Written by Nicholas Tampio, Fordham University; Asim Ali, Auburn University; Patricia A. Young, professor of education UMBC, and Shital Thekdi, University of Richmond One of the most intense...
Posted: September 6, 2023, 10:16 AM
Deepak Koirala to explore how RNA viruses hijack cellular machinery, with eye to future drug treatments
Viruses must hijack their hosts’ cellular machinery to make more viruses, so preventing this hijacking could lead to a host of new treatments for viral diseases. However, much is unknown about how...
Posted: August 30, 2023, 12:03 PM
UMBC’s Steve Freeland co-leads $1.8 million research grant to predict the biochemical foundations of life beyond Earth
Every living thing on Earth, from bacteria to humans, uses the same set of 20 amino acids to build all of its proteins, called our “amino acid alphabet.” But why that particular set of 20? If...
Posted: August 25, 2023, 12:04 PM
Harnessing AI to improve healthcare: Sanjay Purushotham wins $590,000+ NSF CAREER award
Today, a plethora of technologies, from image recognition tools to chatbots, are powered by machine learning. A key component to the technique’s success is data—and lots of it. For doctors and...
Posted: August 4, 2023, 3:00 PM
Need a summer read? UMBC’s got you covered
It’s summer, the ideal season to catch up on “to-be-read” lists and a time to discover new reads. Ever wanted to dig into a feminist critique of the classic horror film Carrie? Or how about a...
Posted: August 2, 2023, 12:51 PM
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
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