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Mercedes Burns to study arachnid evolution in Japan through prestigious NSF CAREER Award
Mammals are “all-in” on sexual reproduction, explains Mercedes Burns, assistant professor of biological sciences at UMBC. They even have “mechanisms that reinforce the maintenance of sex and make...
Posted: March 6, 2023, 1:11 PM
New “Life Magnified” USPS stamp series features Tagide deCarvalho’s images of microscopic life
Tagide deCarvalho, director of the Keith R. Porter Imaging Facility in UMBC’s College of Natural and Mathematical Sciences, produces artistic images that reveal microscopic life in vivid,...
Posted: January 19, 2023, 7:03 PM
Finding Joy in the Democratic Process
On a Tuesday evening in early November, Main Street in The Commons was uncommonly crowded. Hundreds of democratically-minded students eagerly—and perhaps, anxiously—milled around watching the 2022...
Posted: December 14, 2022, 4:07 PM
Vision beyond sight: UMBC’s Phyllis Robinson to advance study of critical eye protein with $2.5M NIH grant
Most people rely heavily on image-forming vision to navigate the world, but our eyes do much more than help us “see” in the traditional sense. In addition to rod and cone cells that help us...
Posted: October 28, 2022, 4:49 PM
GRIT-X 2022 brings to life the “essence” of UMBC research and creative achievement
Amid a bustling day filled with Homecoming excitement, GRIT-X returned to UMBC this month for its sixth year, delivering a wide-ranging lineup of Retriever excellence in action. Held in the Fine...
Posted: October 26, 2022, 2:14 PM
New UMBC research finds that viruses may have “eyes and ears” on us
New UMBC-led research in Frontiers in Microbiology suggests that viruses are using information from their environment to “decide” when to sit tight inside their hosts and when to multiply and...
Posted: September 23, 2022, 10:53 AM
Students in UMBC’s ICARE program connect scientific research with community
Bats as biomonitors, community connections to the zero-waste movement, and oyster aquaculture are just a few of the topics that students in UMBC’s Interdisciplinary Consortium for Applied Research...
Posted: September 19, 2022, 12:58 PM
Viruses may be ‘watching’ you – some microbes lie in wait until their hosts unknowingly give them the signal to start multiplying and kill them
Ivan Erill, Professor of Biological Sciences, UMBC After more than two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, you might picture a virus as a nasty spiked ball – a mindless killer that gets into a...
Posted: September 15, 2022, 11:49 AM
UMBC’s Jeffrey Gardner receives $1.3M from NIH to discover new treatments for fungal disease
Like bacteria, fungi can cause disease inside your body and on your skin, or even grow on medical equipment like catheter tubing and wound dressings. Many fungal diseases are treatable with...
Posted: August 23, 2022, 6:05 PM
UMBC’s 2022 Fulbright student scholars will travel the world to explore difficult questions
Eight recent UMBC graduates and alumni will soon travel to countries across three continents as 2022 Fulbright U.S. Student scholars. They include emerging leaders in education, astrophysics,...
Posted: June 16, 2022, 3:23 PM
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