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URCAD 2019 features diversity-focused student research, with Baltimore, LGBTQ+, and international focus areas
UMBC students are diligently making final touches to their presentations in preparation for the 23rd annual Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement Day (URCAD) on Wednesday, April 24....
Posted: April 22, 2019, 5:19 PM
UMBC researchers invent creative approach to remove dangerous pollutant from waterways
UMBC professors Kevin Sowers and Upal Ghosh have advanced a new technique to eliminate PCBs—one of the most persistent, pervasive, and dangerous chemical pollutants found in waterway sediments....
Posted: April 10, 2019, 5:09 PM
Class project to clinical trials: UMBC’s affordable infant incubator wins Global Health Research Award
When Kevin Tran ‘12, chemical engineering, was a student at UMBC, he took a course on sensors that made him realize the best high tech solution is sometimes a low tech solution. Govind Rao,...
Posted: March 8, 2019, 8:37 PM
UMBC’s Ivan Erill finds resistance to modern drug in ancient bacteria
“The drug you design ten years from now may already be obsolete,” Ivan Erill says. In a new study in Frontiers in Microbiology, Erill and colleagues describe how bacteria that existed hundreds of...
Posted: January 30, 2019, 8:47 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
From lab to museum, new UMBC grads show the powerful impact of original research
“I just had this feeling that there had to be more to this story,” says Nicolle “Niki” Konkel ’18, on the striking lack of women in her art history textbooks. So, with the support of faculty...
Posted: December 18, 2018, 8:14 PM
CS3 leads research summit on community-based violence prevention in Baltimore
Lauren and Vibha sit in a conference room deep in the middle of the University of Maryland School of Medicine. They wait patiently as faculty and staff from UMBC; the University of Maryland,...
Posted: December 14, 2018, 6:56 PM