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Mantis shrimp eyes get even wilder: UMBC team finds twice the expected number of light-detecting proteins
Mantis shrimps have earned wide acclaim in popular culture for their punching limbs, bright colors, and, perhaps most of all, their unusual eyes. “Everybody knows about them now,” says Tom Cronin,...
Posted: July 17, 2020, 6:05 PM
UMBC mathematician Kathleen Hoffman receives new grants to improve HIV modeling
Kathleen Hoffman, professor of mathematics and statistics, thrives on solving puzzles. She has spent her career working to create and refine mathematical models of notoriously complex biological...
Posted: July 13, 2020, 5:31 PM
UMBC’s Fei Han, of The Hilltop Institute, receives grant to develop model predicting patients’ COVID-19 hospitalization risk
UMBC’s Fei Han has received a COVID-19 Accelerated Translational Incubator Pilot (ATIP) award for research to help predict and reduce patients’ risk of being hospitalized due to COVID-19. He will...
Posted: July 8, 2020, 5:38 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
Flood Bot: UMBC researchers expand flood warning work in Ellicott City
Ellicott City, a town about five miles from UMBC, suffered devastating flooding in 2016 and 2018. These events left residents and officials wondering how technology could help predict future...
Posted: June 30, 2020, 6:32 PM
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
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