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UMBC Magazine: See The Challenge, Be The Change

Written by Megan Hanks Mastrola Modeled after a national program, UMBC’s Grand Challenge Scholars Program was established in the College of Engineering and Information Technology (COEIT) in Fall 2016. Over the past six years, the program has expanded, drawing together students from various disciplines to address major challenges that the world is facing. Ranging from engineering better medicines and securing cyberspace…

Posted: July 11, 2022

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The Hilltop Institute at UMBC revolutionizes data analytics to advance health and wellbeing

Two researchers from The Hilltop Institute at UMBC just received a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to investigate hospital price transparency. With the nearly $300,000 award funded by the...

Posted: August 31, 2022, 10:23 AM

Over-the-counter rapid antigen tests for COVID-19 can help slow the spread of the delta variant

By Zoë McLaren, associate professor of Public Policy, UMBC The rise of the highly transmissible delta variant around the U.S. has increased demand for rapid antigen COVID-19 tests that can be...

Posted: September 10, 2021, 5:46 PM

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

Her Science Is the World’s

Corbett in the Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Building on campus in April 2021. Photo by Marlayna Demond ’11. Everyone who’s ever met Kizzmekia Corbett ’08, M16, biological sciences and...

Posted: June 10, 2021, 2:54 PM

Vaccine Victories

UMBC students and staff have shown their resilience in myriad ways during the pandemic, but maybe nothing showcases the Retriever spirit more than the volunteer hours put in to assist in the...

Posted: June 9, 2021, 3:08 PM

NIA grants UMBC’s Laura Girling $750K for research on living with dementia, including the impacts of COVID-19

Laura Girling, director of UMBC’s Center for Aging Studies, breaks down stereotypes of people living with dementia through innovative research. Since 2019, the NIH’s National Institute of Aging...

Posted: February 1, 2021, 9:15 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

Leadership in Action – The Hrabowskis Participate in Vaccine Trial

UMBC President Freeman Hrabowski and his wife Jackie recently volunteered to take part in a 25-month clinical trial of the COVID-19 vaccine invented by alumna Kizzmekia Corbett ’08, M16,...

Posted: November 18, 2020, 8:39 PM

No, soaring COVID-19 cases are not due to more testing – they show a surging pandemic

By Zoë McLaren, associate professor, public policy, UMBC COVID-19 cases are surging upward around the U.S., reaching 100,000 daily cases for the first time on Nov. 4 and 150,000 only eight...

Posted: November 18, 2020, 3:46 PM

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