Computer Science and Electrical Engineering News

By Michele L. Stites, associate professor, Early Childhood Education, UMBC, and Susan Sonnenschein, professor, Applied Developmental Psychology, UMBC Four months in reading. Five months in...

By Matt Williams, Breaking News Editor President Joe Biden has outlined plans to massively ramp up COVID-19 testing in an effort to curb – or at least slow – the spread of the highly...

By Beth Saunders, Curator and Head of Special Collections and Gallery, UMBC The word séance conjures images of darkened rooms, entranced mediums, strange occurrences and spirit voices. For...

By David L. Di Maria, associate vice provost for International Education, UMBC Driven largely by the global pandemic, the number of international students enrolled at U.S. colleges and...

By Patricia A. Young, professor of literacy, culture, and instructional design & technology, UMBC At a large private university in Northern California, a business professor uses an avatar...

By John Rennie Short, professor, public policy, UMBC Climate change is magnifying threats such as flooding, wildfires, tropical storms and drought. In 2020 the U.S. experienced a...

By Ivan Erill, associate professor of biological sciences, UMBC Viruses have a bad reputation. They are responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic and a long list of maladies that have plagued...

by Morgan Henderson, Senior Data Scientist, and Morgane Mouslim, Policy Analyst, The Hilltop Institute, UMBC Health researchers have long argued that the key to reining in surging health care...

By Nancy Kusmaul, associate professor, Social Work UMBC For older adults, social isolation may have dredged up past traumas that are difficult to come back from. And for those living in...

By Amy Froide, professor of history, UMBC There’s growing awareness – and concern – about declining birthrates in the U.S. and other countries around the world. Falling birth rates are...