Showing items tagged biology. Show All
From UMBC News and Magazine
UMBC celebrates 25th Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement Day with an expanded global audience
UMBC’s 25th Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement Day (URCAD) reached more viewers than ever before, with visitors connecting online from as far away as Spain, Indonesia, Nigeria,...
Posted: May 12, 2021, 7:04 PM
UMBC’s Faith Davis is named a 2021 Newman Civic Fellow for work on healthcare, food, and housing insecurity
Faith Davis ‘22, M30, sociology and biological sciences, grew up in Mechanicsville, a small town in Maryland. Her family regularly welcomed people in need of temporary housing into their home....
Posted: May 11, 2021, 9:52 PM
Kizzmekia Corbett ’08 talks to CNN about Meyerhoff Scholars, vaccine hesitancy
Kizzmekia Corbett ’08, M16, biological sciences and sociology, is the lead scientist of the research team that developed the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at the National Institute of Allergy and...
Posted: April 5, 2021, 4:43 PM
UMBC ranks in the top 100 public universities to receive federal research funding
In the latest Higher Education Research and Development (HERD) survey, UMBC has ranked among the United States’ top 100 public institutions in federal research support. The annual survey...
Posted: March 29, 2021, 9:40 PM
UMBC student research offers hope for critically endangered Bahama Oriole
On a low-lying island in the Caribbean, the future of the critically endangered Bahama Oriole just got a shade brighter. A new study co-led by Michael Rowley ’18, M26, biological sciences,...
Posted: March 4, 2021, 11:12 PM
UMBC international students build community online during COVID-19
Kirthana Kolekar. Photo courtesy of Kolekar. Graduate student Kirthana Kolekar began volunteering as one of UMBC’s first Global Ambassadors in summer 2020. It was a time of incredible...
Posted: February 17, 2021, 6:20 PM
UMBC duo using math to reveal how and why cells move with new NSF grant
Cell migration—how, when, and why cells move—has important implications for understanding development and diseases such as blood cell disorders, rheumatoid arthritis, and metastatic cancer....
Posted: October 6, 2020, 6:52 PM
UMBC’s Tara LeGates is first runner-up for prestigious international neurobiology prize
Tara LeGates, assistant professor of biological sciences, has been named first runner-up for the prestigious, international Eppendorf and Science Prize for Neurobiology, a competition for...
Posted: October 2, 2020, 6:21 PM
UMBC engages Howard Community College students with environmental science—online and in their own backyards
It’s a mere hour after sunrise, and Wajhee Zaidi, a student at Howard Community College (HCC), is out in his neighborhood, looking for birds, insects, and whatever other critters he can spot....
Posted: September 11, 2020, 6:17 PM
UMBC’s Daniel Lobo receives $1.9 million NIH grant to explore genetic control of development and regeneration
Salamanders regenerate their tails. Sea stars regenerate their arms. Most species of planaria, a type of flatworm, can regenerate everything from their heads (complete with brain) to their...
Posted: September 9, 2020, 8:14 PM
- Go to page 1
- …
- Go to page 4
- Go to page 5
- Go to page 6
- Go to page 7
- Go to page 8
- …
- Go to page 24