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UMBC faculty win four new Maryland Innovation Initiative grants, bringing total MII awards to $2.4M
Tech transfer is growing rapidly at UMBC, fueled in part by the university’s notable success in securing Maryland Innovation Initiative (MII) grants designed to promote the commercialization of...
Posted: September 30, 2016, 7:20 PM
Sarah Shin publishes new book on English language teaching as a second career
After conducting in-depth interviews and observations of students in a teaching English to speakers of other languages (TESOL) graduate program, Sarah Shin, professor of education and special...
Posted: September 30, 2016, 5:15 PM
Tamra Mendelson advocates using human psychology framework to understand animal cognition
How animals choose when to migrate, with whom to mate, or what to eat can have a huge impact on their ability to survive and reproduce, and thus, the evolution of their species. That’s why...
Posted: September 30, 2016, 2:04 PM
Astrophysicist Robin Corbet discovers rare, high-energy binary star system beyond the Milky Way
Until recently, humans had only detected five binary star systems—pairs of stars orbiting each other—that emit extremely high-energy gamma rays. Robin Corbet, an astrophysicist at UMBC’s Center...
Posted: September 29, 2016, 5:14 PM
Brewster lab to examine “pause button” on embryonic development, with eye on improving organ transplant
Embryos of zebrafish, a workhorse model organism in biology labs, routinely survive without oxygen for up to 50 hours by hitting the pause button on their development. Rachel Brewster, professor...
Posted: September 20, 2016, 1:44 PM
New research by Curran and Kellogg points to inequities in science education from early age
In a new article published in The Conversation, School of Public Policy Assistant Professor F. Chris Curran shares his latest research that reveals significant achievement gaps in science for...
Posted: September 14, 2016, 7:27 PM
NSF funds Jason Kestner to tackle major obstacle to quantum computing
Predictions suggest that advances in quantum computing could lead to computers vastly faster than any that currently exist—computers that could efficiently crunch the more than 2.5 quintillion...
Posted: September 14, 2016, 6:44 PM
In new book, Brian Grodsky argues recent revolutions are threatening the future of democracy
During the last two decades, Brian Grodsky has spent significant time talking to citizens who have been fighting for political change in countries like Poland, Uzbekistan, Serbia, Croatia, Russia,...
Posted: September 14, 2016, 6:23 PM
UMBC’s 100th MARC U*STAR alumnus to earn Ph.D. inspires today’s scholars
Lasse Lindahl’s goal for the MARC U*STAR Scholars program is to “light the fire in the belly so students are hooked on science.” Lindahl, director of the MARC U*STAR program at UMBC and...
Posted: September 9, 2016, 6:37 PM
Three UMBC faculty studying the human brain to offer options for treatment and early intervention
Three UMBC faculty have been awarded two of 18 new grants announced by the National Science Foundation under the Neural and Cognitive Systems (NCS) program to support multidisciplinary research...
Posted: September 8, 2016, 7:56 PM
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