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Meet a Retriever—Patty Hathaway ’97, M.S. ’03, lifetime Retriever and advocate for veterans
Meet Patty Hathaway ’97, M.S. ’03, who earned her B.A. in economics and M.S. in information systems while working at UMBC. After 23 years of service to UMBC, Patty went on to work at three other...
Posted: August 9, 2024, 4:18 PM
Leah Narat ’24 lands elite NASA internship in business intelligence
NASA holds a special place in the public’s imagination. The federal space agency has delivered astronauts to the moon, collected breathtaking images of the cosmos with space telescopes, explored...
Posted: August 8, 2024, 3:29 PM
UMBC scientists show twisted carbon nanotubes might power “wind-up” sensors and other devices
An international team of scientists, including two researchers who now work in the Center for Advanced Sensor Technology (CAST) at UMBC, has shown that twisted carbon nanotubes can store three...
Posted: July 30, 2024, 2:01 PM
With eye to research, UMBC expands partnership with Baltimore-based energy company Constellation
UMBC is strengthening the university’s research connection with the energy company Constellation, expanding on a partnership of more than 20 years with the Baltimore-based business. Constellation,...
Posted: July 30, 2024, 11:57 AM
Massive IT outage spotlights major vulnerabilities in the global information ecosystem
Written by Richard Forno, principal lecturer in computer science and electrical engineering, UMBC The global information technology outage on July 19, 2024, that paralyzed organizations...
Posted: July 19, 2024, 3:46 PM
Karen Chen wins NSF CAREER award to build tools to empower students with data
When Karen Chen’s now teenage son was in third grade, he would complain that math homework was “boring.” Chen wanted to change his perspective. She presented him with extracurricular math problems...
Posted: July 17, 2024, 2:43 PM
Social media and political violence – how to break the cycle
Written by Richard Forno, principal lecturer in computer science and electrical engineering, UMBC The attempted assassination of Donald Trump on July 13, 2024, added more fuel to an already...
Posted: July 16, 2024, 3:25 PM
Infrastructure of support after Key Bridge collapse
In 1987, Paul Flinton, then a 23-year-old senior studying at UMBC, decided to make a short documentary focused on the tollbooth workers on the Francis Scott Key Bridge. The six-minute...
Posted: June 13, 2024, 1:40 PM
Watch: A recap of UMBC-led NASA Dissipation sounding rocket launch
Planetary scientist Mehdi Benna of UMBC’s Center for Space Sciences and Technology, along with a team of collaborators, recently released a video recounting the launch of NASA’s Dissipation...
Posted: June 13, 2024, 10:05 AM
How to count time: Professor Curtis Menyuk brings his expertise in optics to an age-old problem
Time—We buy it and spend it, save it and waste it; it seems to race by as we watch our children grow or drag on in the last hour of a Friday work day. Shakespeare marked “time’s thievish progress”...
Posted: June 3, 2024, 1:26 PM
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