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UMBC ranks among top 150 U.S. universities in federal research funding
The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently released its latest Higher Education Research and Development (HERD) survey, including UMBC among the top 150 U.S. universities in federal research...
Posted: December 20, 2018, 9:01 PM
Faculty receive START and SURFF awards to pursue new research and creative work
UMBC’s Office of the Vice President for Research recently presented awards to support the work of two dozen UMBC faculty examining topics from health disparities among people with diabetes to...
Posted: December 18, 2018, 8:22 PM
UMBC’s Sebastian Deffner receives FQXi support for pioneering work to define laws of the universe
Sebastian Deffner plans to spend his career expanding on the work of physics giants to refine our understanding of the fundamental laws of nature, from the inner workings of the tiniest cells to...
Posted: October 15, 2018, 2:16 PM
UMBC physicist Can Ataca developing quicker, cheaper way to create novel, one-atom-thick materials
Imagine a sheet that’s only one atom thick. It won’t keep you very warm, but single-atom-thick materials under development might soon do extraordinary things, like filter salt from water, collect...
Posted: September 21, 2018, 2:51 PM
UMBC, NASA, and partners mount intensive Chesapeake Bay air-quality study
This summer, students and faculty from UMBC and three additional universities teamed up with NASA researchers and Maryland’s Department of the Environment to collect huge amounts of data that will...
Posted: August 21, 2018, 2:26 PM
New UMBC initiative celebrates exceptional faculty dedication to teaching and scholarship
UMBC’s Office of the Provost has launched a university-wide initiative to celebrate faculty who go above and beyond as educators, scholars, and leaders on campus and in their fields. This...
Posted: June 21, 2018, 2:28 PM
The next big discovery in astronomy?
Scientists probably found it years ago – but they don’t know it yet Eileen Meyer, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Earlier this year, astronomers stumbled upon a fascinating finding:...
Posted: June 14, 2018, 7:56 PM
UMBC’s Eileen Meyer explains how big data is changing astronomy research
UMBC’s Eileen Meyer, assistant professor of physics, argues that recent technological advances in the big data era are changing how astronomers learn about the universe. In an article published...
Posted: June 4, 2018, 2:57 PM
Congrats, Class of 2018! UMBC celebrates students making history.
UMBC students have rewritten the record books in 2018. With graduation around the corner, and our soon-to-be new Retriever alumni preparing for graduate school, careers, and research around the...
Posted: May 14, 2018, 2:46 PM
Greg Huxtable to begin Ph.D. at UC Irvine, building on high-level research in quantum computing
Greg Huxtable B.S., Physics and Mathematics Hometown: Gambrills, Maryland Plans: Ph.D., University of California, Irvine UMBC was a great environment for preparing me for graduate school,...
Posted: April 15, 2018, 8:24 PM
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