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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 graduates create their own paths to excellence, focused on succeeding together
Each graduating student’s path looks different. For many Retrievers, UMBC offers an opportunity to develop not just knowledge and skills, but also self-awareness that enables them to pursue...
Posted: December 17, 2019, 9:16 PM
Together every step of the way: Three sisters earn UMBC teaching degrees
Transferring to a new college often comes with some trepidation about making new friends and finding your crowd. For Michelle, Melissa, and Melanie Biddinger, however, those were the least of...
Posted: December 17, 2019, 6:50 PM
UMBC students confront ethical challenges through new computing curriculum
When UMBC’s Helena Mentis is teaching, her students often bring up ethical challenges in computing, and they are hungry to learn about how to address them. “We want to capitalize on this curiosity...
Posted: December 17, 2019, 5:08 PM
Swimmer, engineer, composer: Three Retrievers share their unique paths to graduation day
Imagine packing your bags and traveling 6,000 miles from home to spend four years in a country you’ve never visited. That’s exactly what Hania Moro ‘19, financial economics, did when she made the...
Posted: December 17, 2019, 3:28 AM
“We need people just like you”: Transfer students find, and build, supportive communities at UMBC
Students come to UMBC with a variety of experiences and in different stages of life. The unique perspectives of transfer students enrich the University, particularly as students connect with and...
Posted: December 16, 2019, 6:30 PM
UMBC’s Mustafa Al-Adhami wins national Three-Minute Thesis competition
Mustafa Al-Adhami M.S. ‘15, Ph.D. ‘20, mechanical engineering, won the national Three-Minute Thesis competition last week, during the annual conference of the Council of Graduate Schools. His...
Posted: December 13, 2019, 6:52 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
In 2019 Idea Competition, UMBC students focus on inclusion
Necessity can inspire innovation and sometimes, UMBC’s Emma Neubert will tell you, that innovation comes in the form of a cuddly critter with eight limbs that makes silly sounds. Neubert ‘21,...
Posted: November 26, 2019, 2:47 PM
The Driving Force of Chemistry
In a chemical engineering lab, students huddle around a bench layering aluminum foil and steel wool together to build a battery. Another group pipettes solutions into a pressure vessel to test...
Posted: November 21, 2019, 2:46 PM
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