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NOAA funds UMBC to train minority students in remote sensing and atmospheric sciences
UMBC’s demonstrated strength in supporting students from underrepresented groups on their path to success in STEM fields has earned the university another round of funding for STEM education. The...
Posted: October 12, 2016, 3:01 PM
UMBC faculty win four new Maryland Innovation Initiative grants, bringing total MII awards to $2.4M
Tech transfer is growing rapidly at UMBC, fueled in part by the university’s notable success in securing Maryland Innovation Initiative (MII) grants designed to promote the commercialization of...
Posted: September 30, 2016, 7:20 PM
Tamra Mendelson advocates using human psychology framework to understand animal cognition
How animals choose when to migrate, with whom to mate, or what to eat can have a huge impact on their ability to survive and reproduce, and thus, the evolution of their species. That’s why...
Posted: September 30, 2016, 2:04 PM
Brewster lab to examine “pause button” on embryonic development, with eye on improving organ transplant
Embryos of zebrafish, a workhorse model organism in biology labs, routinely survive without oxygen for up to 50 hours by hitting the pause button on their development. Rachel Brewster, professor...
Posted: September 20, 2016, 1:44 PM
UMBC’s 100th MARC U*STAR alumnus to earn Ph.D. inspires today’s scholars
Lasse Lindahl’s goal for the MARC U*STAR Scholars program is to “light the fire in the belly so students are hooked on science.” Lindahl, director of the MARC U*STAR program at UMBC and...
Posted: September 9, 2016, 6:37 PM
Summer Undergraduate Research Fest spotlights next generation of scientists
A crowd of more than 250 people gathered to learn from and celebrate emerging scientists at UMBC’s Summer Undergraduate Research Fest (SURF) on August 10, 2016. The program has humble beginnings,...
Posted: August 16, 2016, 4:51 PM
bwtech@UMBC’s Potomac Photonics makes big strides in micro-manufacturing
Potomac Photonics, a bwtech@UMBC-based micro-manufacturing company, uses lasers, 3D printers and other technologies to alter and develop products with extreme precision, to the scale of one...
Posted: August 4, 2016, 2:59 PM
New mentoring program connects refugee youth in Baltimore with opportunities to pursue a college education
A new college access mentoring program for refugees in Baltimore has demonstrated tremendous success in its first year, with all of the graduating seniors in the program accepted into college....
Posted: July 25, 2016, 8:16 PM
UMBC Ph.D. student makes surprise discovery of natural back-up system in fish reproduction
What happens when a scientist gets a research result that flies in the face of their expectations? More research leading to new, compelling discoveries. Yonathan Zohar’s lab at the Institute of...
Posted: July 15, 2016, 6:11 PM
PBS NovaNext highlights Daniel Lobo’s work solving biological mysteries with evolving computer models
Other scientists thought it couldn’t be done. One called it “ridiculously impossible.” But Michael Levin, a biology professor at Tufts University, disagreed. Levin hired Daniel Lobo, now an...
Posted: July 13, 2016, 3:59 PM
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