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“Smog Blog” run by UMBC students becomes go-to air quality reference for national audience
When Jill Engel-Cox Ph.D. ’04, marine-estuarine environmental sciences, started the Smog Blog in 2003, it served as “kind of an online lab notebook,” she says. In the early 2000s, there were...
Posted: June 30, 2016, 6:37 PM
UMBC celebrates the career of Bimal Sinha at 10th annual Probability and Statistics Day
The highly anticipated 2016 Probability and Statistics Day at UMBC on May 20 and 21 featured numerous compelling talks from leading statisticians. Previous years included workshops and student...
Posted: June 22, 2016, 7:55 PM
Chris Geddes solves common problem in medical testing with DNA chopping biotech invention
Chris D. Geddes, professor of chemistry and biochemistry and director of UMBC’s Institute of Fluorescence, is no stranger to entrepreneurship. He has numerous patents and commercialized products...
Posted: June 16, 2016, 1:58 PM
Eight bwtech@UMBC companies named 2016 Maryland Incubator Company of the Year finalists
The bwtech@UMBC Research & Technology Park is home to more than a third of all finalists for the 2016 Maryland Incubator Company of the Year Awards (ICOY). These eight (of 22) ICOY finalists...
Posted: June 16, 2016, 1:43 PM
The Economist features UMBC’s revolutionary land-based aquaculture
UMBC Professor Yonathan Zohar, chair of marine biotechnology, is featured in a new issue of The Economist focused on the future or agricultural technologies. Zohar’s research seeks to...
Posted: June 13, 2016, 8:08 PM
Goddard Planetary Heliophysics Institute to receive up to $20 million from NASA over next five years
NASA has renewed its support for the Goddard Planetary Heliophysics Institute (GPHI), granting permission for a maximum of $20 million to be spent over the next five years. The institute is a...
Posted: June 9, 2016, 8:14 PM
UMBC prepares next generation of leading K-12 educators with commitment to community
It has been a banner year for UMBC community members committed to improving the quality of K-12 education. This spring The Washington Post and Baltimore County Public Schools honored two UMBC...
Posted: June 9, 2016, 2:19 AM
NASA and UMBC scientists gather to celebrate LAGEOS on its 40th anniversary in orbit
On May 4, 2016 LAGEOS turned 40. For a satellite that is expected to stay in Earth orbit for 8.4 million years it’s the blink of an eye, but for the team involved in the project this birthday...
Posted: June 3, 2016, 4:52 PM
NIDA’s deputy director visits campus to promote resources available to faculty
Wilson Compton, deputy director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), visited UMBC on April 20, meeting with President Freeman A. Hrabowski, Vice President for Research Karl V. Steiner,...
Posted: May 23, 2016, 7:12 PM
UMBC honors Class of 2016, adding nearly 2,000 new members to the Retriever alumni family
Thousands of friends, family members, faculty and staff gathered to celebrate the tremendous achievements of UMBC’s Class of 2016, nearly 2,000 strong, at the university’s commencement ceremonies,...
Posted: May 20, 2016, 6:39 PM
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