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“Smog Blog” run by UMBC students becomes go-to air quality reference for national audience
When Jill Engel-Cox Ph.D. ’04, marine-estuarine environmental sciences, started the Smog Blog in 2003, it served as “kind of an online lab notebook,” she says. In the early 2000s, there were...
Posted: June 30, 2016, 6:37 PM
Dawn Biehler brings fresh perspective to pest control on WYPR
The Zika outbreak has brought renewed attention to strategies for controlling pest populations across the country. Dawn Biehler, an associate professor of geography and environmental systems,...
Posted: June 24, 2016, 4:05 PM
Fan Yang’s “Faked in China” tackles competing visions of the Chinese economy in a globalized world
The opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing lasted several hours, showcased thousands of performers, and featured an elaborate fireworks ceremony, wowing the many spectators who...
Posted: June 17, 2016, 3:09 PM
Chris Geddes solves common problem in medical testing with DNA chopping biotech invention
Chris D. Geddes, professor of chemistry and biochemistry and director of UMBC’s Institute of Fluorescence, is no stranger to entrepreneurship. He has numerous patents and commercialized products...
Posted: June 16, 2016, 1:58 PM
Eight bwtech@UMBC companies named 2016 Maryland Incubator Company of the Year finalists
The bwtech@UMBC Research & Technology Park is home to more than a third of all finalists for the 2016 Maryland Incubator Company of the Year Awards (ICOY). These eight (of 22) ICOY finalists...
Posted: June 16, 2016, 1:43 PM
The Economist features UMBC’s revolutionary land-based aquaculture
UMBC Professor Yonathan Zohar, chair of marine biotechnology, is featured in a new issue of The Economist focused on the future or agricultural technologies. Zohar’s research seeks to...
Posted: June 13, 2016, 8:08 PM
NIDA’s deputy director visits campus to promote resources available to faculty
Wilson Compton, deputy director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), visited UMBC on April 20, meeting with President Freeman A. Hrabowski, Vice President for Research Karl V. Steiner,...
Posted: May 23, 2016, 7:12 PM
Former Apple CEO and tech investor John Sculley learns about engineering innovations at UMBC
John Sculley, former CEO of Apple and Pepsi-Cola and currently entrepreneur and investor in high-tech startups, visited the Center for Advanced Sensor Technology (CAST) at UMBC on April 15 to...
Posted: May 23, 2016, 7:06 PM
President of German Research Foundation visits UMBC, discusses academic globalization and UMBC initiatives
Peter Strohschneider, president of the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, or DFG), visited campus on April 13 for a half-day as part of a visit to Washington, DC. He met...
Posted: May 20, 2016, 8:02 PM
The Glass Knife exhibit animates the life and work of cell biologist Dr. Keith Porter
There is a hum that accompanies the current exhibition, The Glass Knife, by Stephen Bradley and Kathy Marmor in the Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery. The installation is structured by the artists to...
Posted: May 18, 2016, 5:21 PM
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