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Can anything be read as poetry? Keegan Cook Finberg, English, is opening students’ eyes to the poetic world
Keegan Cook Finberg, an assistant professor of English, started graduate school at UC Santa Cruz during the financial crisis of 2008, in a moment of extreme recession. “Privatization and austerity...
Posted: March 12, 2026, 4:26 PM
UMBC’s Global Learning Lab receives Innovative Excellence in Internationalization Award
The Association of International Education Administrators (AIEA) has awarded UMBC’s Global Learning Lab one of two Innovative Excellence in Internationalization Awards. This award honors creative,...
Posted: March 12, 2026, 10:10 AM
Connecting NASA to the classroom: UMBC physicist Zhibo Zhang to lead Goddard Planetary Heliophysics Institute
Zhibo Zhang, professor of physics, has been named director of the Goddard Planetary Heliophysics Institute (GPHI), UMBC’s arm of the Partnership for Heliophysics and Space Environment Research...
Posted: March 4, 2026, 9:28 AM
Is fusion the future? Carlos Romero Talamás’ lab gets congressional attention
Piles of snow and bitter cold didn’t deter U.S. congressional representative Don Beyer from meeting with UMBC’s Carlos Romero Talamás in late January to discuss the hot topic of fusion energy....
Posted: February 18, 2026, 1:10 PM
Electrical, biomedical, and computer science researchers team up to develop a ‘cybergut’
Mehdi Kiani (Brad Ziegler/UMBC) Personalized and precise treatments will improve patients’ quality of life in a fast-approaching future driven by AI, wearable tech, and other innovations. UMBC...
Posted: February 9, 2026, 4:22 PM
Sisters in science: How one UMBC lab kindled a family tradition of discovery
On the fourth floor of UMBC’s Meyerhoff Chemistry Building, where students are hard at work exploring the intricacies of RNA molecules that may hold the key to combating viral diseases, a unique...
Posted: February 5, 2026, 1:43 PM
UMBC’s Seneviratne to study how HIV and cancer drugs harm the brain
Important FDA-approved drugs to treat HIV and cancer can save lives, but they come with their own risks. Some drugs used clinically are known to cause neurological side effects in up to half of...
Posted: December 19, 2025, 4:20 PM
UMBC discovery opens door to broad-spectrum antivirals against dozens of dangerous viruses
A study out of UMBC, published in Nature Communications, reveals how enteroviruses—including pathogens that cause polio, encephalitis, myocarditis, and the common cold—initiate replication by...
Posted: December 12, 2025, 3:27 PM
Strange Dance Partners
UMBC researchers are discovering building blocks of hand motions, aiming to improve physical therapy for humans and find better ways to program robots. They’re turning to a novel source material...
Posted: December 5, 2025, 4:55 PM
Chemical engineering professor Tyler Josephson chosen as Simons Foundation Pivot Fellow
Tyler Josephson, an assistant professor in the Department of Chemical, Biochemical, and Environmental Engineering, was selected as a 2025 Pivot Fellow by the Simons Foundation. The fellowships...
Posted: November 25, 2025, 2:24 PM
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