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UMBC’s Jianwu Wang receives NSF CAREER Award to help climate scientists make discoveries from massive, complex data sets
Jianwu Wang, assistant professor of information systems, is the most recent UMBC faculty member to receive a prestigious CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Wang’s NSF grant...
Posted: April 28, 2020, 4:55 PM
UMBC team makes breakthrough discovery in HIV research, opening path to new, better therapies
New research on the structure of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) has revealed a promising novel drug target for treating HIV infection, which affects more than 1 million Americans and 40...
Posted: April 23, 2020, 6:03 PM
UMBC’s Rickesh Patel determines how mantis shrimp find their way home
Mantis shrimps have earned fame for their powerful punching limbs, incredibly unusual eyes, and vivid exoskeletons. And, it turns out, they’re also really good at finding their way home. Through a...
Posted: April 9, 2020, 3:17 PM
UMBC psychology faculty work to prevent intimate partner violence and support survivors
UMBC’s psychology faculty closely collaborate with communities on research to prevent intimate partner and gender-based violence and to support survivors. Their work to transform systems is...
Posted: March 30, 2020, 6:16 PM
UMBC historian Anne Rubin examines food scarcity in the Confederate South through NEH fellowship
“Historians know that the Confederacy ran out of food by the end of the Civil War, and it shouldn’t have because it was an agricultural society,” says Anne Rubin, professor of history at UMBC. “I...
Posted: March 10, 2020, 9:20 PM
International team led by UMBC identifies new bird species in the South Pacific
In the 1930s, famed biologist Ernst Mayr became the first to study Pacific Robins. Based on his observations of the robins and other birds on Australia and its outlying islands, he developed...
Posted: March 6, 2020, 6:36 PM
UMBC once again ranks among the top 150 universities in federal research funding
The annual Higher Education Research and Development (HERD) survey from the National Science Foundation again includes UMBC as a top recipient of federal research support. The most recent...
Posted: February 28, 2020, 8:23 PM
UMBC’s Suzanne Ostrand-Rosenberg recognized for 40-year career advancing cancer immunotherapy
After 41 years at UMBC, Suzanne Ostrand-Rosenberg, professor emerita of biological sciences, retired in August 2018 and moved to Utah to enjoy the mountains with her spouse. But she couldn’t stay...
Posted: February 27, 2020, 8:32 PM
Sensing an opportunity to improve wind energy: Maryland Innovation Initiative and bwtech help UMBC faculty commercialize their research
Wind turbines are massive, with a single turbine blade measuring up to 350 feet (about 110 meters), longer than the wingspan of some commercial airplanes. At its highest point, a blade can be 850...
Posted: February 10, 2020, 8:30 PM
Baltimore Field School: The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation supports UMBC’s inclusive approach to community-based research
UMBC’s College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences (CAHSS) is pleased to announce the launch of a fourteen-month initiative to promote diversity, inclusion, and social justice in the public...
Posted: January 23, 2020, 7:44 PM
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