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NASA awards UMBC team $1.4M to develop AI that improves how computers process climate data from satellites
Data archives from NASA’s Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS), which collects data from satellites, aircraft, and ground instruments, currently contain about 31 petabytes...
Posted: October 26, 2020, 4:09 PM
UMBC duo using math to reveal how and why cells move with new NSF grant
Cell migration—how, when, and why cells move—has important implications for understanding development and diseases such as blood cell disorders, rheumatoid arthritis, and metastatic cancer....
Posted: October 6, 2020, 6:52 PM
UMBC’s Tara LeGates is first runner-up for prestigious international neurobiology prize
Tara LeGates, assistant professor of biological sciences, has been named first runner-up for the prestigious, international Eppendorf and Science Prize for Neurobiology, a competition for...
Posted: October 2, 2020, 6:21 PM
UMBC’s Daniel Lobo receives $1.9 million NIH grant to explore genetic control of development and regeneration
Salamanders regenerate their tails. Sea stars regenerate their arms. Most species of planaria, a type of flatworm, can regenerate everything from their heads (complete with brain) to their...
Posted: September 9, 2020, 8:14 PM
UMBC’s Elizabeth Patton dives into history of remote work with “Easy Living: The Rise of the Home Office”
Elizabeth Patton’s new book Easy Living: The Rise of the Home Office (2020, Rutgers University Press) explores how Americans think about the modern home office and why. Patton’s book is a...
Posted: September 4, 2020, 9:33 PM
Bedrock to treetops: NSF awards $4.8M to urban environment study led by UMBC’s Claire Welty
There is an essential resource constantly flowing beneath our feet: groundwater. Urban denizens may not think about it often, or at all, because they don’t rely on wells, “but it’s still there,”...
Posted: September 2, 2020, 4:23 PM
UMBC’s first virtual conference on inclusive language engages hundreds of education professionals from around the world
UMBC hosted “The Evolving World of Inclusive Language” on June 10, 2020, at a moment of intense focus on anti-racism and inclusion in higher education. The event was organized by Catalina Sofia...
Posted: August 26, 2020, 2:06 AM
UMBC study reveals gender bias in bird song research and impact of women on science
A revolutionary group of scientists has been rethinking for two decades how we understand bird song, with women leading the way. Several of these scientists are from UMBC, and their latest...
Posted: August 25, 2020, 9:25 PM
UMBC-led team receives Dept. of Energy grant to advance nuclear fusion energy research
UMBC’s Carlos Romero-Talamas is leading a group of researchers in designing and building a machine to produce nuclear fusion energy. The project is one of just 15 new initiatives selected for...
Posted: August 10, 2020, 1:48 PM
Small satellite, big ambitions: UMBC’s HARP named SmallSat Mission of the Year
UMBC’s Hyper-Angular Rainbow Polarimeter (HARP) Satellite, which began in Vanderlei Martins’s imagination more than a decade ago, has been flying in low-Earth orbit since February 19. It contains...
Posted: August 7, 2020, 10:41 PM
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