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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
IBM-UMBC Day focuses on research collaboration in advanced computing
UMBC welcomed 50 IBM executives and research leaders to campus on Friday, April 6, for a day-long event designed to broaden the robust research relationship between the two organizations and...
Posted: April 12, 2018, 6:04 PM
UMBC celebrates 2018 Presidential Faculty and Staff Award winners
UMBC’s Presidential Faculty and Staff Awards offer a chance to reflect, each year, on the essential contributions of university employees to making UMBC a welcoming, supportive, and successful...
Posted: April 10, 2018, 8:13 PM
UMBC physicist Sebastian Deffner lays groundwork to better understand birth of the universe
Scientists, across all areas of study, seek to help us better understand the world in microscopic and massive ways. How does it work? What rules does it follow? Theoretical physicists in...
Posted: March 6, 2018, 4:15 PM
UMBC physicists discover unexpected effect of African wildfires on climate
Clouds play a prominent role in moderating Earth’s climate, but their role is still poorly understood. Generally, clouds cool the Earth by reflecting incoming sunlight back out into space....
Posted: March 5, 2018, 8:41 PM
UMBC physicists develop cost-saving tech for detecting gravitational waves and other applications
In 2016, Jane Sprigg, Ph.D. ’16, physics, submitted a research paper demonstrating a technique that would enable a camera to snap crystal clear images from an airplane or satellite, even over...
Posted: February 12, 2018, 9:02 PM
UMBC space scientist further confirms Einstein’s theory through new solar research
New research by Sander Goossens, associate research scientist at UMBC’s Center for Space Science and Technology, and colleagues offers a fresh perspective on a question of universal importance....
Posted: January 29, 2018, 10:14 PM
UMBC’s Sebastian Deffner explains how the “quantum speed limit” may put brakes on quantum computers
Classical computers have been getting faster, more powerful, and more compact for decades, but they may be reaching their limits, writes Sebastian Deffner, assistant professor of physics, in The...
Posted: January 18, 2018, 9:55 PM
UMBC’s Top 12 Highlights of 2017
The calendar may have flipped to 2018, but there are so many great milestones achieved by the UMBC community to recognize from 2017. Here are twelve top highlights: 1. Rhodes Scholar Naomi...
Posted: January 12, 2018, 3:43 PM
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