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Students discover the beauty of mold and mentorship in Mark Marten’s UMBC lab
Mold on your bread or bathroom tiles can be a nuisance. Mold in a scientific lab can be a marvel. Up close, the growth of mold becomes living artwork—white, feathery shoots morphing into...
Posted: September 22, 2023, 3:38 PM
U.S. News ranks UMBC among the nation’s best colleges in undergraduate research, teaching, innovation, and value
UMBC continues to show its strengths in undergraduate research, innovation, value, teaching programs, and several other areas highlighted in the 2023–24 U.S. News and World Report Best Colleges...
Posted: September 18, 2023, 4:36 PM
‘Big Bang of Numbers’ – The Conversation’s book club explores with author Manil Suri how math alone could create the universe
The Conversation U.S. launched its new book club with a bang – talking to mathematician Manil Suri about his nonfiction work “The Big Bang of Numbers: How to Build the Universe Using Only Math.”...
Posted: September 18, 2023, 4:14 PM
Need a fun activity? UMBC iFest delivers with 200+ student organizations and tons to explore
As waves of students swarmed the Retriever Activity Center last week, senior Micah Polsky of the UMBC Crafting Club quietly stood knitting a pale blue merino wool sock with three tiny needles....
Posted: September 12, 2023, 5:20 PM
Justin Webster receives NSF grant to study mathematical models behind oscillation of plane wings, bridges, energy harvesters
Although objects like bridges, buildings, and airplane wings may seem quite rigid, by design they are capable of a surprising deal of bending. This elasticity allows them to deform safely and...
Posted: September 6, 2023, 2:15 PM
School’s in Session
The feel of a pen as it clicks open and closed, pointed for note taking (or probably more likely the feel of an electronic stylus). The sound of pages rustling in a notebook during the first class...
Posted: August 31, 2023, 2:11 PM
Deepak Koirala to explore how RNA viruses hijack cellular machinery, with eye to future drug treatments
Viruses must hijack their hosts’ cellular machinery to make more viruses, so preventing this hijacking could lead to a host of new treatments for viral diseases. However, much is unknown about how...
Posted: August 30, 2023, 12:03 PM
UMBC’s Steve Freeland co-leads $1.8 million research grant to predict the biochemical foundations of life beyond Earth
Every living thing on Earth, from bacteria to humans, uses the same set of 20 amino acids to build all of its proteins, called our “amino acid alphabet.” But why that particular set of 20? If...
Posted: August 25, 2023, 12:04 PM
STEM BUILD interns shine at UMBC’s Summer Undergraduate Research Fest
At Summer Undergraduate Research Fest (SURF) on August 9, 132 students presented posters and six gave short oral presentations, called “lightning talks,” about research projects covering topics...
Posted: August 24, 2023, 3:50 PM
NEXUS Institute for Quantitative Biology celebrates student success, community college partnerships
In 2018, faculty at UMBC and four of its top-sending community colleges embarked on a project with an ambitious mission: improve students’ quantitative skills in biological contexts, and eliminate...
Posted: August 17, 2023, 3:23 PM
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