Computer Science and Electrical Engineering News

By Matthew Fagan, UMBC; Leighton Reid, University of Missouri-St. Louis, and Margaret Buck Holland, UMBC Tropical forests globally are being lost at a rate of 61,000 square miles a year. And...

Amy Froide, Professor of History, UMBC One of the challengers at this year’s Oscars is “The Favourite,” a film set in the early 18th-century court of British monarch Queen Anne. Focusing on...

by John Rennie Short, Professor, School of Public Policy, UMBC As cities strive to improve the quality of life for their residents, many are working to promote walking and biking. Such policies...

Preminda Jacob, Associate Professor of Art History and Museum Studies, UMBC For two hours each evening, an Ivanka Trump lookalike has been vacuuming a hot pink carpet at the Flashpoint Gallery...

by Margaret Re, Associate Professor of Graphic Design, UMBC The look, feel and functionality of the modern American office can be traced back to the work of one woman. Florence Knoll Bassett,...

Have you ever tried to make yourself laugh – or make yourself stop laughing? According to Robert Provine, professor emeritus of psychology, these two actions are out of our control because...

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...

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 –...

With Susan Graham ’98, VPA & Anthropology, Special Collections Librarian at UMBC Since the early 1900s, fans of science fiction and fantasy have produced thousands upon thousands of...

When Scott Casper, dean of the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, was asked to lend his expertise in 19th-century U.S. history to help understand a unique artifact found during the...