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Four UMBC student researchers receive prestigious Goldwater Scholarships
Four UMBC students have been named Barry Goldwater Scholars this year. The Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation supports talented college sophomores and juniors who...
Posted: April 14, 2026, 4:29 PM
Unlocking motivation: Grad student leads discovery of how two hippocampus regions team up to fuel goal-driven behavior
New UMBC research reveals how two different parts of the hippocampus—the brain’s memory center—team up in a key reward region to help mice, and likely humans, combine memories of places and...
Posted: April 9, 2026, 3:18 PM
Celebrating the misunderstood: Mercedes Burns featured in new book on North America’s overlooked critters
GRIZZLED: Love Letters to 50 of North America’s Least Understood Animals spotlights the quirky, often-misunderstood inhabitants of our backyards and beyond. It hits bookstores this week, and...
Posted: March 4, 2026, 12:07 PM
Connecting NASA to the classroom: UMBC physicist Zhibo Zhang to lead Goddard Planetary Heliophysics Institute
Zhibo Zhang, professor of physics, has been named director of the Goddard Planetary Heliophysics Institute (GPHI), UMBC’s arm of the Partnership for Heliophysics and Space Environment Research...
Posted: March 4, 2026, 9:28 AM
On the track and in the pool, UMBC nabs America East titles
This past weekend, the Retrievers cracked open the record books to ink two more milestones in the history of UMBC Athletics. For the first time in university history, the women’s track and field...
Posted: February 25, 2026, 4:01 PM
No animal alive today is ‘primitive’— why are so many still labeled that way?
‘Man’ is at the very top looking down at all other forms of life in Ernst Haeckel’s drawing. Ernst Haeckel/Photos.com via Getty Images Plus Written by Kevin Omland, professor of biological...
Posted: February 9, 2026, 1:40 PM
Chronic illness redirected Jaime Miller’s medical career—today she advocates for people with lupus, including herself
When Jaime Miller ’06, biochemistry, was in the final stages of her M.D/Ph.D., she did not expect her 15-year educational journey to be derailed by her own medical mystery. She certainly didn’t...
Posted: February 6, 2026, 2:26 PM
Sisters in science: How one UMBC lab kindled a family tradition of discovery
On the fourth floor of UMBC’s Meyerhoff Chemistry Building, where students are hard at work exploring the intricacies of RNA molecules that may hold the key to combating viral diseases, a unique...
Posted: February 5, 2026, 1:43 PM
A place to spark scientific curiosity—UMBC hosts 1,200 high schoolers at Science Olympiad invitational
On a cloudy Saturday in January, UMBC buzzed with the energy of over 1,200 high school students from across the Mid-Atlantic region. For the third consecutive year, UMBC’s College of Natural and...
Posted: February 5, 2026, 11:30 AM
UMBC physicist wins Amazon award to build AI-orchestrated scientific assistant
Fabio Anza, an assistant professor in UMBC’s Department of Physics, Quantum Science Institute and Cybersecurity Institute, has won an Amazon Research Award to develop Physics Co-Pilot—a scientific...
Posted: January 29, 2026, 1:46 PM
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