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UMBC’s Top Highlights of 2019
As UMBC welcomes 2020, we celebrate the student successes, athletic achievements, research breakthroughs, and community news that made 2019 a year to remember. Retriever Nation Whether it was...
Posted: January 9, 2020, 6:06 PM
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’s Lisa Kelly receives NSF grant to develop a safer, greener chemical production method
At some point in its development, every drug, high-tech piece of clothing, and synthetic building material was touched by a chemist. However, getting the atoms attached to each other in just the...
Posted: December 17, 2019, 5:41 PM
Team led by UMBC’s Mehdi Benna is the first to map a planet’s global wind patterns, and they weren’t Earth’s
Today, a paper published in Science documents for the first time the global wind circulation patterns in the upper atmosphere of a planet, 120 to 300 kilometers above the surface. The findings are...
Posted: December 12, 2019, 7:07 PM
UMBC’s Aaron Smith examines molecular role of iron in human health with $1.5M in new grants
UMBC’s Aaron Smith is now thinking “bigger picture” about how his lab’s research can support human health at the molecular level thanks to $1.5 million in new research funding. Smith, assistant...
Posted: November 12, 2019, 9:35 PM
We have liftoff! UMBC-developed mini satellite launched into space to study climate, air quality
In the early morning hours of Saturday, November 2, a few hundred guests at the NASA Wallops Flight Facility gathered at the VIP launch viewing site—a grassy pad near a large tent. Sitting on...
Posted: November 8, 2019, 4:52 AM
UMBC’s newest Postdoctoral Fellows for Faculty Diversity explore who has a voice in literature, policy, and social movements
“UMBC is giving me the ultimate opportunity of time and support to think, write, and teach about what matters to me the most—conducting research about my community,” says Fernando Tormos-Aponte,...
Posted: October 28, 2019, 7:05 PM
New UMBC study shows powerful effects of road salt and urban infrastructure on waterways
Increasing development worldwide, driven by urbanization and a growing human population, is having significant effects on our waterways. Baltimore is no exception to this trend. Because of its...
Posted: September 17, 2019, 8:57 PM
UMBC’s Sander Goossens determines structure of Mercury’s core as part of NASA team
UMBC’s Sander Goossens designed and implemented code that’s helping NASA scientists better understand the evolution of planets, starting with Mercury. He’s part of a research team applying...
Posted: September 12, 2019, 7:15 PM
Times Higher Ed and Wall Street Journal again name UMBC a leading global and U.S. university
Just days after U.S. News again recognized UMBC as one of the nation’s top universities for teaching and innovation, the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings have named UMBC a...
Posted: September 12, 2019, 1:44 PM
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