Explore recent College of Engineering and Information Technology (COEIT) news highlights on UMBC News: Science & Technology and UMBC Magazine.
About UMBC [PDF] shares additional highlights of innovative teaching and research. COEIT department websites share additional news and events.
Showing items tagged ges. Show All
From UMBC News and Magazine
Exploring Every Angle: Climate Research at UMBC
Researchers across UMBC are using unique, interdisciplinary approaches to explore global environmental challenges. Here are just three examples. Lipi Mukherjee, Ph.D. ’20, atmospheric...
Posted: December 2, 2020, 7:31 PM
To Save Threatened Plants and Animals, Restore Habitat on Farms, Ranches and Other Working Lands
By Erle C. Ellis, professor, Geography and Environmental Systems, UMBC; Lucas Alejandro Garibaldi, Universidad Nacional de Rio Negro; Claire Kremen, University of British Columbia; and Sandra...
Posted: October 29, 2020, 1:36 PM
How Can Smoke from West Coast Fires Cause Red Sunsets in New York?
By Jeffrey B. Halverson, professor, Geography and Environmental Systems, associate dean, Graduate School, UMBC If you are one of the millions of people in the Midwest and Eastern U.S. who...
Posted: September 22, 2020, 4:24 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
Bedrock to treetops: NSF awards $4.8M to urban environment study led by UMBC’s Claire Welty
There is an essential resource constantly flowing beneath our feet: groundwater. Urban denizens may not think about it often, or at all, because they don’t rely on wells, “but it’s still there,”...
Posted: September 2, 2020, 4:23 PM
A Career of Putting Others First—Q&A with Nicki Fiocco ’11
If volunteer coordination is “all about finding the right person to do the right job,” as Nicki Fiocco ’11, geography and environmental systems, explains, then the Hogan Administration found the...
Posted: June 15, 2020, 6:17 PM
Three years in, UMBC’s Inclusion Imperative connects humanities scholars focused on diversity, inclusion, equity, and justice
UMBC’s Inclusion Imperative is now in its third year of promoting diversity and inclusion in the humanities—on campus and across the region. The five-year initiative, funded by a $750,000 grant...
Posted: April 7, 2020, 7:52 PM
Teaching among trees: Field research project grows UMBC partnership with community colleges
When Caitlin Beckjord stepped onto campus for the first time as a UMBC student in fall 2019, she felt energized and prepared to succeed, thanks to a unique, new summer program on urban forestry....
Posted: January 27, 2020, 4:02 PM
UMBC researchers find many countries will not meet ambitious forest restoration goals without support
The U.N. and other international organizations agree that forest restoration is a critical part of the collective global effort to combat climate change, reduce extinctions, and improve the lives...
Posted: January 17, 2020, 12:48 PM
3 Global Conditions—and a Map—for Saving Nature and Using it Wisely
By Erle C. Ellis, professor of geography and environmental systems, UMBC, and James Watson, professor, The University of Queensland Nature urgently needs our help. Wild creatures, from songbirds...
Posted: October 25, 2019, 5:56 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 15