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UMBC faculty and staff award recipients place community at the core of their success
At UMBC’s 2022 Presidential Faculty and Staff Awards (PFASA), Tamra Mendelson, professor of biological sciences and recipient of the 2022 – 2025 Presidential Teaching Professor Award, said she...
Posted: April 7, 2022, 10:12 PM
UMBC and Israeli Ministry of Agriculture establish aquaculture research partnership
UMBC will grow its aquaculture collaboration with Israeli colleagues thanks to a new statement of intent signed last week at the Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology (IMET), a...
Posted: December 10, 2021, 3:58 PM
UMBC’s Yonathan Zohar to lead $10 million partnership to scale land-based salmon aquaculture
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has awarded $10 million, the maximum allowable amount, to a set of projects, led by UMBC’s Yonathan Zohar, targeted to solve specific aquaculture...
Posted: October 7, 2021, 2:04 PM
UMBC faculty, alumni entrepreneurs receive record number of MIPS awards for tech collaborations
Six UMBC faculty members have just received grants from the Maryland Industrial Partnerships (MIPS) program to develop new technologies with potential to grow the state’s economy. This is UMBC’s...
Posted: February 11, 2021, 8:41 PM
BARD Fund honors UMBC’s Yonathan Zohar for aquaculture research with $12B global economic impact
The Binational Agricultural Research Development (BARD) Fund, a partnership program between the U.S. and Israel, has recognized Yonathan Zohar for the economic impact of his research. In a review...
Posted: November 24, 2020, 11:38 PM
Groundbreaking fish research by UMBC’s Yonathan Zohar spawns partnership with AquaCon on $1 billion Maryland aquaculture project
More and more U.S. states, from Texas to Maine, are increasing their capacity to produce fish for human consumption in land-based facilities. These operations are less susceptible to disease and...
Posted: July 3, 2020, 2:33 AM
Preparing for impact: Four new UMBC grads share what drives their research
It’s 3 a.m., and Cindy Chelius rolls out of the pull-out couch in the grad student lounge. Time to check on her fungi. For this experiment, measurements must be taken every four hours for forty...
Posted: December 17, 2019, 10:49 PM
UMBC spotlights the power of collaboration and community in opening of new science building, GRIT-X talks
During the height of UMBC Homecoming festivities on October 12, the university community and supporters from across Maryland gathered to celebrate the opening of UMBC’s Interdisciplinary Life...
Posted: October 21, 2019, 2:09 PM
UMBC receives $2.8M from NSF for master’s program to prepare a diverse environmental science workforce
An interdisciplinary team of UMBC professors has received $2.8 million from the National Science Foundation to create a new master’s program focused on developing a more diverse environmental...
Posted: September 18, 2019, 8:44 PM
UMBC researchers invent creative approach to remove dangerous pollutant from waterways
UMBC professors Kevin Sowers and Upal Ghosh have advanced a new technique to eliminate PCBs—one of the most persistent, pervasive, and dangerous chemical pollutants found in waterway sediments....
Posted: April 10, 2019, 5:09 PM
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