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Support comes full circle: When students become mentors
In 2015, Cherie Tebah’s dream of providing dental care in marginalized communities was shattered when she sustained injuries while in the U.S. military. Tebah, who is originally from Ghana, had...
Posted: May 19, 2020, 2:55 PM
Graduating CNMS Scholars carry on a commitment to support women in STEM
UMBC has made great strides in increasing its number of women faculty members in STEM through the ADVANCE program. Now, through the CNMS Scholars Program, these women are serving as mentors to the...
Posted: May 18, 2020, 3:30 PM
UMBC once again ranks among the top 150 universities in federal research funding
The annual Higher Education Research and Development (HERD) survey from the National Science Foundation again includes UMBC as a top recipient of federal research support. The most recent...
Posted: February 28, 2020, 8:23 PM
UMBC’s Pelton and Daniel are developing light-driven chips to enable super-fast computing
By combining their expertise in physics and chemistry, Matt Pelton and Marie-Christine Daniel are working toward the next big leap in computing. Both are engaged in photonics research, which is...
Posted: January 16, 2020, 9:17 PM
Climate Shift
From Eritrea to UMBC, this physicist is cultivating a diverse generation of climate scientists. It’s a nearly cloudless afternoon at UMBC in early October. A group of physics students and their...
Posted: December 10, 2019, 4:47 PM
We have liftoff! UMBC-developed mini satellite launched into space to study climate, air quality
In the early morning hours of Saturday, November 2, a few hundred guests at the NASA Wallops Flight Facility gathered at the VIP launch viewing site—a grassy pad near a large tent. Sitting on...
Posted: November 8, 2019, 4:52 AM
NASA and DoE fund UMBC’s Zhibo Zhang to pursue ambitious atmospheric research
Recently, both the Department of Energy (DoE) and NASA awarded Zhibo Zhang, associate professor of physics, significant grants to pursue projects in atmospheric science. Zhang’s lab has...
Posted: August 6, 2019, 9:32 PM
UMBC’s Qianqian Song receives FINESST Fellowship from NASA for research on dust clouds and climate
UMBC’s Qianqian Song has just received the Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology (FINESST) Fellowship—one of just 59 such fellowships granted nationwide this year....
Posted: August 2, 2019, 8:47 PM
UMBC’s Glenn Wolfe develops new method to gauge atmosphere’s ability to clear methane, a potent greenhouse gas
New research by UMBC’s Glenn Wolfe and collaborators is shaping how scientists understand the fate of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, in Earth’s atmosphere. Of the greenhouse gases, methane...
Posted: May 31, 2019, 6:02 PM
From dream to drive to degree: Five UMBC journeys
Earning a degree isn’t just a milestone, it’s a special kind of growth experience full of challenges and doubts, inspiration and opportunity. Depending on their path, some students face particular...
Posted: May 14, 2019, 1:42 PM
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