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A graduate focused on health and community revives a student organization
Avni Patel Degrees: B.S., Biological Sciences; B.A., Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies Hometown: Ellicott City, MD Post-grad plans: Medical school Avni Patel has completed a...
Posted: May 4, 2023, 12:34 PM
How do Candida auris and other fungi develop drug resistance? A microbiologist explains
Written by Jeffrey Gardner, associate professor of biological sciences, UMBC One of the scariest things you can be told when at a doctor’s office is “You have an antimicrobial-resistant...
Posted: May 3, 2023, 11:14 AM
A shift in plans leads to new opportunities, combining philosophy and science
Avi Newman Degrees: B.S., Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; B.S., Biological Sciences; B.A., Philosophy Hometown: Derwood, MD Post-grad plans: Graduate school Embracing all of the...
Posted: May 1, 2023, 10:36 AM
Research excellence, from a tropical field site to the lab
Ellie Bare Degree: B.S., Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Hometown: Sharpsburg, MD Post-grad plans: Postbaccalaureate program, National Institutes of Health Ellie Bare has been a...
Posted: April 24, 2023, 1:23 PM
UMBC’s Arjun Kanjarpane and Anya Viswanathan receive prestigious Goldwater Scholarships
Arjun Kanjarpane ’24, M32, biochemistry and molecular biology, and Soujanya “Anya” Viswanathan ’24, M32, biological sciences, are the latest UMBC students to be named Goldwater Scholars. By...
Posted: April 11, 2023, 3:05 PM
Innies, outies and omphalophobia: 7 navel-gazing questions about belly buttons answered
Written by Sarah Leupen, senior lecturer of biological sciences, UMBC Everyone has one, but you might not know much about it. Here biologist Sarah Leupen, who teaches human and comparative...
Posted: April 5, 2023, 1:34 PM
UMBC’s Ivan Erill demonstrates fast, low-cost method to monitor spread of antibiotic resistance over time
Growing resistance to antibiotics and other antimicrobial treatments is a serious global healthcare challenge. A new study in Antibioticsdemonstrates a method for tracking the spread of genes for...
Posted: March 24, 2023, 4:54 PM
Mercedes Burns to study arachnid evolution in Japan through prestigious NSF CAREER Award
Mammals are “all-in” on sexual reproduction, explains Mercedes Burns, assistant professor of biological sciences at UMBC. They even have “mechanisms that reinforce the maintenance of sex and make...
Posted: March 6, 2023, 1:11 PM
New “Life Magnified” USPS stamp series features Tagide deCarvalho’s images of microscopic life
Tagide deCarvalho, director of the Keith R. Porter Imaging Facility in UMBC’s College of Natural and Mathematical Sciences, produces artistic images that reveal microscopic life in vivid,...
Posted: January 19, 2023, 7:03 PM
Finding Joy in the Democratic Process
On a Tuesday evening in early November, Main Street in The Commons was uncommonly crowded. Hundreds of democratically-minded students eagerly—and perhaps, anxiously—milled around watching the 2022...
Posted: December 14, 2022, 4:07 PM
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