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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
Retrievers gone global: 5 ways UMBC fosters international engagement
As International Education Week 2025 comes to a close, we’ve rounded up a few of the many ways Retrievers engage globally through their work and studies. Even though it has been a particularly...
Posted: November 25, 2025, 1:03 PM
Simple wood makes advanced sensors
Picture the most advanced technology and certain qualities probably spring to mind: maybe metallic and sleek, with glowing lights and big digital screens. The researchers at the Center for...
Posted: November 5, 2025, 1:32 PM
Who is AI for? Eric Stokan receives USM professorship to address barriers and promote AI equity for students and faculty
For tech-savvy individuals like Eric Stokan, artificial intelligence, programming languages, and open-source software are powerful tools that can turn once-impossible ideas into reality....
Posted: October 9, 2025, 5:19 PM
Who is AI for? Eric Stokan receives USM professorship to address barriers and promote AI equity for students and faculty
For tech-savvy individuals like Eric Stokan, artificial intelligence, programming languages, and open-source software are powerful tools that can turn once-impossible ideas into reality....
Posted: October 9, 2025, 5:19 PM
Quantum on track: UMBC researchers demonstrate feasibility of using quantum devices to manage urban train scheduling, using a Baltimore transit line as a model
Train delays can cascade into stalled commutes, economic losses, and vacation snags. Scheduling trains is computationally complex, though: It can take hours or days to solve large transportation...
Posted: September 17, 2025, 10:41 AM
500 days in space and counting—UMBC celebrates HARP2 satellite’s incoming data and resulting discoveries
For over 500 days, the Hyper-Angular Rainbow Polarimeter 2 (HARP2), a high-tech instrument built by UMBC researchers and students, has been orbiting Earth on NASA’s Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean...
Posted: September 17, 2025, 9:23 AM
Following where curiosity leads them—COEIT celebrates student summer research
Students from across the College of Engineering and Information Technology (COEIT) spent the summer diving into research—embarking on new projects or deepening their focus. The college celebrated...
Posted: September 16, 2025, 2:42 PM
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