Computer Science and Electrical Engineering News

By Jeffrey B. Halverson, professor, Geography and Environmental Systems, associate dean, Graduate School, UMBC If you are one of the millions of people in the Midwest and Eastern U.S. who...

By Kevin Omland, professor, Biological Sciences, UMBC; Evangeline Rose, Ph.D. ’20, biological sciences, UMBC, and Karan Odom, Ph.D. ’16, biological sciences, Cornell University Americans...

Sitting together, side-by-side in a video call, it’s easy to see the familial resemblance between Susan Sonnenschein, professor, Applied Developmental Psychology, and Elyse Grossman, M.P.P. ’08,...

By Jennifer Mata-McMahon, associate professor, Education, UMBC More than 1 in 10 of the nation’s approximately 50 million public school students speak a native language other than...

By Elizabeth Patton, assistant professor, Media and Communication Studies, UMBC It’s just past 10 a.m. and my partner, on his third virtual meeting today, is working non-stop in our home...

By Zoë McLaren, associate professor, Public Policy, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Broad access to testing is one of the most powerful tools to keep the COVID-19 pandemic under...

By David Salkever, professor emeritus of Public Policy, UMBC Americans who lost their jobs because of the pandemic had been getting a US$600 bump on top of state benefits in their weekly...

By Susan Sonnenschein, professor, Applied Development Psychology, UMBC and Elyse R. Grossman, M.P.P. ’08, Ph.D. ’14, public policy, policy fellow, Department of Health, Behavior and Society, Johns...

By Zoe McLaren, associate professor of public policy, UMBC For many people in the U.S., getting tested for COVID-19 is a struggle. In Arizona, testing sites have seen lines of hundreds of...

By Katherine Seley-Radtke, professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry, UMBC The big idea A paper came out in Nature on July 22 that further underscores earlier studies that show that neither...