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Harnessing AI to improve healthcare: Sanjay Purushotham wins $590,000+ NSF CAREER award
Today, a plethora of technologies, from image recognition tools to chatbots, are powered by machine learning. A key component to the technique’s success is data—and lots of it. For doctors and...
Posted: August 4, 2023, 3:00 PM
UMBC’s Achuth Padmanabhan to pursue promising ovarian cancer research with $1.5 million in grants
No one wants to receive a cancer diagnosis. Ovarian cancer can be particularly scary, because its vague symptoms make it difficult to detect early—and when caught late, after the cancer has...
Posted: July 26, 2023, 5:54 PM
U.S. News Best Graduate School rankings for 2023–24 name UMBC programs among best in the nation
U.S. News announced its 2023-24 Best Graduate School rankings today, highlighting UMBC graduate programs in a broad range of fields, from public policy and several types of engineering to...
Posted: April 25, 2023, 12:43 PM
UMBC’s Arjun Kanjarpane and Anya Viswanathan receive prestigious Goldwater Scholarships
Arjun Kanjarpane ’24, M32, biochemistry and molecular biology, and Soujanya “Anya” Viswanathan ’24, M32, biological sciences, are the latest UMBC students to be named Goldwater Scholars. By...
Posted: April 11, 2023, 3:05 PM
Unlocking the secrets of materials that turn heat into electricity: UMBC’s Deepa Madan wins NSF CAREER Award
Deepa Madan, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at UMBC, has received a prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award for research on materials that could improve...
Posted: March 2, 2023, 11:59 AM
UMBC researchers listed among the world’s top 2% of most-cited scientists and engineers
More than 40 active UMBC researchers are listed among the top 2% of the world’s most-cited scientists and engineers in an analysis recently published by Elsevier. These researchers include...
Posted: January 25, 2023, 11:47 AM
NSF awards UMBC’s Lauren Clay $624K Convergence Accelerator grant to address food insecurity in disasters
Longstanding food insecurity problems in the U.S. and around the world, exacerbated by the pandemic, are projected to increase over the coming decades, as food, water, and energy demands increase...
Posted: January 6, 2023, 2:04 PM
GRIT-X 2022 brings to life the “essence” of UMBC research and creative achievement
Amid a bustling day filled with Homecoming excitement, GRIT-X returned to UMBC this month for its sixth year, delivering a wide-ranging lineup of Retriever excellence in action. Held in the Fine...
Posted: October 26, 2022, 2:14 PM
UMBC to co-lead new Baltimore Social-Environmental Collaborative with $2.3M grant
American cities face environmental challenges that are exacerbated by climate change, from air and water quality issues to flooding and heat. Low-income neighborhoods and areas that were...
Posted: October 4, 2022, 4:22 PM
UMBC’s Chengpeng Chen receives $1.7M NIH grant to develop human liver model
It can take more than 10 years and a billion dollars to get one new drug approved, and less than 10 percent of drugs succeed in clinical trials. Part of the problem is that common techniques used...
Posted: August 26, 2022, 4:02 PM
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