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El Niño is back – that’s good news or bad news, depending on where you live
Written by Bob Leamon, research scientist, Partnership for Heliophysics and Space Environment Research (PHaSER), UMBC El Niño is officially here, and while it’s still weak right now, federal...
Posted: June 9, 2023, 10:37 AM
US, Chinese warships’ near miss in Taiwan Strait hints at ongoing troubled diplomatic waters, despite chatter about talks
Written by Meredith Oyen, associate professor of history and Asian studies, UMBC. An encounter in which a Chinese naval ship cut across the path of a U.S. destroyer in the Taiwan Strait on...
Posted: June 9, 2023, 8:01 AM
Shared Stories, Shared Purpose
On a warm and bright sunny day in April when the trees in Baltimore City’s Patterson Park are changing from bright green buds to full leaf and the birds are competing with the car horns, Viridiana...
Posted: June 8, 2023, 7:47 PM
Open to Interpretation
What if you could ask yourself a big question and then use your intuition to follow it wherever it led for as long as it took? It would take a certain kind of guts, right? But, with a willingness...
Posted: June 8, 2023, 7:21 PM
Building AI We Can Trust
The AI apocalypse is coming. Or it isn’t. Depending on what you read, you might get confused. One thing is certain: Humans are fired up about smart machines. Much of the attention has focused...
Posted: June 8, 2023, 3:31 PM
Writing your way through your own history—and sharing the narrative
Family stories, told honestly, reach people in ways that reams of advice and pages in history books cannot. When personal narratives reach the classroom, students respond by opening up, say two...
Posted: June 1, 2023, 1:07 PM
Lessons from ‘Star Trek: Picard’ – a cybersecurity expert explains how a sci-fi series illuminates today’s threats
Written by Richard Forno, principal lecturer in computer science and electrical engineering, UMBC Editor’s note: This article contains plot spoilers. Society’s understanding of...
Posted: May 12, 2023, 12:09 PM
The Enduring Legacy of Ola Belle Reed
New exhibit showcases Appalachian music legend in memorabilia, music, and film Ask your favorite old-time music aficionado to name the most important musicians working in the 20th century,...
Posted: May 9, 2023, 10:17 AM
Black mothers trapped in unsafe neighborhoods signal the stressful health toll of gun violence in the U.S.
Written by Loren Henderson, associate professor of public policy, UMBC and Ruby Mendenhall, associate professor in sociology, African American studies, urban and regional planning, and social...
Posted: May 3, 2023, 4:18 PM
How do Candida auris and other fungi develop drug resistance? A microbiologist explains
Written by Jeffrey Gardner, associate professor of biological sciences, UMBC One of the scariest things you can be told when at a doctor’s office is “You have an antimicrobial-resistant...
Posted: May 3, 2023, 11:14 AM
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