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Convicts Are Returning to Farming—Anti-Immigrant Policies Are the Reason
By Stian Rice, visiting assistant research professor, Center for Urban Environmental Research and Education, UMBC Prison inmates are picking fruits and vegetables at a rate not seen since Jim...
Posted: June 7, 2019, 1:24 PM
Hackers Seek Ransoms from Baltimore and Communities Across the US
By Richard Forno, assistant director, UMBC Center for Cybersecurity, director, cybersecurity graduate program The people of Baltimore are beginning their fifth week under an electronic siege...
Posted: June 5, 2019, 4:59 PM
Spider Glue’s Sticky Secret Revealed By New Genetic Research
By Sarah Stellwagen, postdoctoral researcher in biological sciences, UMBC What do all of the over 45,000 described spider species on Earth have in common? Each makes at least one type of silk....
Posted: June 5, 2019, 3:37 PM
Antibiotic resistance is not new – it existed long before people used drugs to kill bacteria
Ivan Erill, Associate Professor, Biological Sciences, UMBC Imagine a world where your odds of surviving minor surgery were one to three. A world in which a visit to the dentist could spell...
Posted: June 5, 2019, 3:27 PM
Duke Ellington’s Melodies Carried his Message of Social Justice
by Michelle R. Scott, Associate Professor of History, UMBC and Earl Brooks, Assistant Professor of English, UMBC At a moment when there is a longstanding heated debate over how artists and pop...
Posted: April 24, 2019, 2:40 PM
Japan’s next emperor is a modern, multilingual environmentalist
by Constantine Nomikos Vaporis, Professor of History, UMBC For the first time in 217 years, a Japanese emperor will cede his place on the imperial throne. On April 30, Japan’s ailing...
Posted: April 24, 2019, 2:15 PM
Want to Fix Gerrymandering? Then the Supreme Court Needs to Listen to Mathematicians
By Manil Suri, Professor of Mathematics and Statistics, UMBC, and Karen Saxe, Macalester College “Are we in Maryland’s third congressional district?” Karen asked on a recent visit to the UMBC...
Posted: April 3, 2019, 12:53 PM
Countering Russian disinformation the Baltic nations’ way
by Terry Thompson, Adjunct Instructor in Cybersecurity, UMBC As the new Congress begins, it will soon discuss the comprehensive reports to the U.S. Senate on the disinformation campaign of...
Posted: January 9, 2019, 7:08 PM
Who is responsible for migrants?
by Felipe A. Filomeno, Assistant Professor of Political Science and Global Studies, UMBC President Donald Trump tends to portray migrants as a foreign problem that has suddenly – and unfairly –...
Posted: December 18, 2018, 4:19 PM
The equivalence test: A new way for scientists to tackle so-called negative results
by Evangeline Rose, Kevin E. Omland, and Thomas Mathew, UMBC A paleontologist returns to her lab from a summer dig and sets up a study comparing tooth length in two dinosaur species. She and her...
Posted: November 19, 2018, 6:47 PM
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