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UMBC’s Tom Barclay and NASA team discover Neptune-sized planet orbiting young, nearby star
New research published today in Nature reports the discovery of a planet about the size of Neptune orbiting an especially young, nearby star. The planet, named AU Mic b, is orbiting AU...
Posted: June 24, 2020, 3:32 PM
How the darter got its stripes: New UMBC research expands on sexual selection theory to explain complicated animal patterns
Samuel Hulse, Ph.D. candidate in biological sciences, has spent a lot of time in waders over the last two years. He has traipsed from stream to stream across the eastern U.S., carefully collecting...
Posted: May 22, 2020, 12:44 PM
UMBC’s Naghmeh Karimi receives NSF CAREER Award to develop long-lasting security for cryptographic chips
Naghmeh Karimi is the most recent UMBC faculty member to receive a prestigious CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The grant, totaling approximately $500,000 over five years,...
Posted: May 15, 2020, 5:21 PM
UMBC researchers receive a Fast Grant to study antivirals’ effectiveness against COVID-19
Katherine Seley-Radtke, professor of chemistry and biochemistry, has received a six-month Fast Grant to test antiviral compounds developed in her lab for effectiveness against COVID-19....
Posted: May 6, 2020, 10:13 PM
Virtual URCAD Puts Student Research on Broad Display
Nothing in Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement Day’s twenty-four year history could have prepared its organizers and participants for the challenge presented in spring 2020, as...
Posted: May 2, 2020, 12:50 AM
UMBC’s Jianwu Wang receives NSF CAREER Award to help climate scientists make discoveries from massive, complex data sets
Jianwu Wang, assistant professor of information systems, is the most recent UMBC faculty member to receive a prestigious CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Wang’s NSF grant...
Posted: April 28, 2020, 4:55 PM
UMBC team makes breakthrough discovery in HIV research, opening path to new, better therapies
New research on the structure of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) has revealed a promising novel drug target for treating HIV infection, which affects more than 1 million Americans and 40...
Posted: April 23, 2020, 6:03 PM
UMBC’s Rickesh Patel determines how mantis shrimp find their way home
Mantis shrimps have earned fame for their powerful punching limbs, incredibly unusual eyes, and vivid exoskeletons. And, it turns out, they’re also really good at finding their way home. Through a...
Posted: April 9, 2020, 3:17 PM
UMBC psychology faculty work to prevent intimate partner violence and support survivors
UMBC’s psychology faculty closely collaborate with communities on research to prevent intimate partner and gender-based violence and to support survivors. Their work to transform systems is...
Posted: March 30, 2020, 6:16 PM
UMBC historian Anne Rubin examines food scarcity in the Confederate South through NEH fellowship
“Historians know that the Confederacy ran out of food by the end of the Civil War, and it shouldn’t have because it was an agricultural society,” says Anne Rubin, professor of history at UMBC. “I...
Posted: March 10, 2020, 9:20 PM
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