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As Urban Life Resumes, Can US Cities Avert Gridlock?
By John Rennie Short, professor, School of Public Policy, UMBC Traffic is so ubiquitous in U.S. cities that until recently, imagining urban life without it meant looking to other nations for...
Posted: June 21, 2021, 6:57 PM
Study Shows AI-Generated Fake Reports Fool Experts
By Priyanka Ranade, doctoral student in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering (CSEE), UMBC; Anupam Joshi, professor, CSEE, UMBC; and Tim Finin, professor, CSEE, UMBC Takeaways · AIs...
Posted: June 7, 2021, 1:38 PM
Are America’s schools safe for Asian Americans?
By Charissa S. L. Cheah, professor, psychology, UMBC; Aggie Yellow Horse, Arizona State University, and Kevin A. Gee, University of California, Davis The rise in anti-Asian hate crimes during...
Posted: April 19, 2021, 3:49 PM
5 ways the Biden administration may help stem the loss of international students
By David L. Di Maria, associate vice provost, International Education, UMBC Over the past four years, the Trump administration made it increasingly difficult for students from other countries...
Posted: February 3, 2021, 2:31 PM
Why COVID-19 won’t kill cities
By John Rennie Short, professor, School of Public Policy, UMBC and Michael J. Orlando, lecturer, Finance and Politics, Global Energy Management Program, University of Colorado Denver...
Posted: January 25, 2021, 9:57 PM
Engineering can contribute to a reimagining of the US public health system
By Woodrow W. Winchester III, Graduate Program Director, Professional Engineering Programs, UMBC Of the many things that COVID-19 has made abundantly clear to us, surely one of them is a...
Posted: January 21, 2021, 2:53 PM
FDA authorized first over-the-counter COVID-19 test – useful but not a game changer
By Zoë McLaren, associate professor, Public Policy UMBC Soon, people in the U.S. will be able to pick up a rapid antigen test for COVID-19 from their local drugstore without a prescription,...
Posted: December 17, 2020, 9:04 PM
Virgin births from parthenogenesis: How females from some species can reproduce without males
By Mercedes Burns, assistant professor, Biological Sciences, UMBC An Asian water dragon hatched from an egg at the Smithsonian National Zoo, and her keepers were shocked. Why? Her mother had...
Posted: December 15, 2020, 2:18 PM
Reckoning with slavery: What a revolt’s archives tell us about who owns the past
By Marjoleine Kars, associate professor, history, UMBC The consequences of 400 years of the Atlantic slave trade are still felt today. Untangling the power structures and systemic racism that...
Posted: December 1, 2020, 3:00 PM
Poland’s anti-abortion push highlights pandemic risks to democracy
By Brian Grodsky, professor, Political Science, UMBC Hundreds of thousands of Poles have taken to the streets since late October, defying bans on mass gatherings and risks from the COVID-19...
Posted: November 25, 2020, 2:51 PM
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