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Making STEM courses more inclusive with lab and lecture hall upgrades
This summer UMBC is partnering with the Maryland Department of Disabilities to upgrade nine teaching labs in the Meyerhoff Chemistry Building. The updates will allow students with mobility...
Posted: July 22, 2025, 3:28 PM
Could a robot dance partner help us de-stress? UMBC researchers explore the ‘algo-rhythmic’ possibilities
It wasn’t your usual scientific research presentation. Two dancers—one representing a robot and the other a human—take turns moving around each other. As the dance progresses the human is at first...
Posted: July 11, 2025, 11:54 AM
Diane Alonso named senior fellow for generative AI pedagogy at USM Kirwan Center for Academic Innovation
Diane Alonso, a teaching professor and director of UMBC’s psychology program at the Universities at Shady Grove, has been named one of two senior fellows for generative AI pedagogy at the William...
Posted: June 25, 2025, 10:34 AM
From better batteries to safer surgery: Three engineering grads to tackle society’s big challenges with support from prestigious NSF research fellowships
How can we make the world a better place? It’s a question that Nathaniel Glover ’25, chemical engineering, Jacob Lombardo ‘25, mechanical engineering, and August Phelps ’25, mechanical...
Posted: June 23, 2025, 11:18 AM
Grok’s ‘white genocide’ responses show how generative AI can be weaponized
Written by James Foulds, associate professor of information systems, UMBC; Phil Feldman, adjunct research assistant professor of information systems, UMBC; and Shimei Pan, associate professor of...
Posted: June 20, 2025, 11:40 AM
Leading brain researchers and engineers converge on UMBC campus to advance innovative neurotechnologies
From June 5 – 8, UMBC hosted leading scientific researchers for a series of meetings on the science of the brain—often said to be the least understood organ in the human body. The proceedings...
Posted: June 17, 2025, 3:48 PM
A beautiful day to be a Retriever
Ramping up to the end of the Retriever 2024 – 2025 academic year, UMBC’s Office of Student Engagement and Belonging gathered students, faculty, and staff to celebrate their accomplishments and...
Posted: June 3, 2025, 9:43 AM
How to create a new world
In her day job as a vice president at the advanced technology company Booz Allen Hamilton, Catherine Ordun, Ph.D. ’23, information systems, leads teams of engineers working on far-out AI tech. In...
Posted: May 30, 2025, 3:01 PM
UMBC teams up with disability advocacy organization on Kinetic Sculpture Race—and wins best art award
On a pleasant Saturday in early May, nearly 30 teams gathered in Baltimore to pedal elaborate all-terrain sculptures 15 miles through a course featuring pavement, water, sand, and mud. The 25th...
Posted: May 29, 2025, 10:58 AM
Multiplying community connections: UMBC math and stat and the Ingenuity Project at a Baltimore high school forge thriving STEM partnership
On Wednesday, May 21, more than 300 high school students from the high school Baltimore Polytechnic Institute (Poly), family members, teachers, and faculty and staff from area universities filled...
Posted: May 29, 2025, 10:25 AM
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