Computer Science and Electrical Engineering News

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...

By William Blake, assistant professor, Political Science, UMBC States can force members of the Electoral College to vote for the winner of the popular vote in their state’s presidential...

By Zhiyuan Chen, associate professor, Information Systems, UMBC and Aryya Gangopadhyay, professor, Information Systems, UMBC The stunning successes of artificial intelligence would not have...

By David Salkever, professor, Public Policy, UMBC Preventing deaths from COVID-19 depends on people who get it seeking treatment – which also allows authorities to track down whom they came...

By Rakaia Kenney ’21, research assistant, UMBC; Kayla Lemons ’20, research assistant UMBC, and Weihong Lin, professor, Biological Sciences, UMBC Curious Kids is a series for children...

With Kevin Omland, professor of biological sciences UMBC is teeming with wildlife—the infamous frenzied squirrels, the occasional wandering deer, a curious woodchuck or two, and lots and lots...

ByZoe McLaren, associate professor, public policy, UMBC A commonly used malaria drug was recently proposed as a treatment for COVID-19 during a White House press briefing, even though it...

AFTER YEARS IN DEVELOPMENT, AND MONTHS OF WAITING, A UMBC-DEVELOPED MINI SATELLITE LAUNCHED INTO SPACE STUDIES CLIMATE AND AIR QUALITY, PROVING PERSISTENCE PAYS OFF. In the early morning...