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UMBC’s exploratory artist in residence Levester Williams examines history of Cockeysville marble in film project
Since 2014, multimedia artist Levester Williams has developed a personal connection and exploration with a natural material that is a historic staple of Baltimore life—Cockeysville, Maryland,...
Posted: July 15, 2024, 2:48 PM
The Mellon Foundation awards UMBC’s Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies department $100,000 as part of its ‘Affirming Multivocal Humanities’ initiative
UMBC’s Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies (GWST) department has received a $100,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation to implement its Advancing Gender and Sexuality Studies in Community...
Posted: April 23, 2024, 10:49 AM
UMBC partners with American Statistical Association to organize annual African International Conference on Statistics
The eighth iteration of the African International Conference on Statistics (AIC), scheduled for June 2024 in Tunis, Tunisia, will mark a new era for the conference. Originally championed by Bimal...
Posted: April 17, 2024, 4:22 PM
UMBC chapter of National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) shines at regional conference
Members of UMBC’s chapter of the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) traveled to Norfolk, Virginia for their annual regional conference in November and came home with numerous awards. ...
Posted: December 5, 2023, 5:40 PM
First Roth Research Award recipient broadens horizons after summer research experience
Inioluwa Oluseyi has wanted to be a neurosurgeon as long as she can remember. She didn’t anticipate how much fly husbandry would play a role in her reaching her goal. In a fall 2022 genetics class...
Posted: September 22, 2023, 4:09 PM
Justin Webster receives NSF grant to study mathematical models behind oscillation of plane wings, bridges, energy harvesters
Although objects like bridges, buildings, and airplane wings may seem quite rigid, by design they are capable of a surprising deal of bending. This elasticity allows them to deform safely and...
Posted: September 6, 2023, 2:15 PM
Deepak Koirala to explore how RNA viruses hijack cellular machinery, with eye to future drug treatments
Viruses must hijack their hosts’ cellular machinery to make more viruses, so preventing this hijacking could lead to a host of new treatments for viral diseases. However, much is unknown about how...
Posted: August 30, 2023, 12:03 PM
UMBC’s Steve Freeland co-leads $1.8 million research grant to predict the biochemical foundations of life beyond Earth
Every living thing on Earth, from bacteria to humans, uses the same set of 20 amino acids to build all of its proteins, called our “amino acid alphabet.” But why that particular set of 20? If...
Posted: August 25, 2023, 12:04 PM
STEM BUILD interns shine at UMBC’s Summer Undergraduate Research Fest
At Summer Undergraduate Research Fest (SURF) on August 9, 132 students presented posters and six gave short oral presentations, called “lightning talks,” about research projects covering topics...
Posted: August 24, 2023, 3:50 PM
UMBC’s 2023-2024 Fulbright Student Program recipients announced
This year, the U.S. Fulbright Student Program, the U.S. government’s flagship international exchange program, has awarded nine UMBC students and alumni top research and teaching placements in...
Posted: July 22, 2023, 1:43 AM
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