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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
UMBC STEM BUILD students conduct and present viral research in reimagined summer program
The 19 members of UMBC’s STEM BUILD Cohort 5 and their instructors had been looking forward to a summer wet lab experience. When that wasn’t possible due to the COVID-19 pandemic, they worked...
Posted: August 26, 2020, 10:05 PM
UMBC study reveals gender bias in bird song research and impact of women on science
A revolutionary group of scientists has been rethinking for two decades how we understand bird song, with women leading the way. Several of these scientists are from UMBC, and their latest...
Posted: August 25, 2020, 9:25 PM
UMBC students complete internships virtually amid COVID-19 pandemic
Each summer, hundreds of UMBC students complete summer internships to get hands-on experience related to their majors and career goals. The COVID-19 pandemic has moved many networking...
Posted: August 17, 2020, 1:46 PM
Alumna Leads Team to Breakthrough Coronavirus Vaccine Results
Clinical trials seeking a vaccine to prevent COVID-19 are galloping forward around the world, and Kizzmekia Corbett and Barney Graham’s research team at the National Institute of Allergy and...
Posted: August 6, 2020, 6:03 PM
UMBC develops future STEM teachers, researchers through pilot program pairing high school and college students
This fall, Kimani Reed will enter UMBC as a new student in the pre-nursing program, but she’s already a member of the UMBC community. Through a partnership between UMBC and Cristo Rey Jesuit High...
Posted: July 20, 2020, 1:48 PM
Mantis shrimp eyes get even wilder: UMBC team finds twice the expected number of light-detecting proteins
Mantis shrimps have earned wide acclaim in popular culture for their punching limbs, bright colors, and, perhaps most of all, their unusual eyes. “Everybody knows about them now,” says Tom Cronin,...
Posted: July 17, 2020, 6:05 PM
How the darter got its stripes: New UMBC research expands on sexual selection theory to explain complicated animal patterns
Samuel Hulse, Ph.D. candidate in biological sciences, has spent a lot of time in waders over the last two years. He has traipsed from stream to stream across the eastern U.S., carefully collecting...
Posted: May 22, 2020, 12:44 PM
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