Engineering and Computing Education Program News

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded prestigious Graduate Research Fellowships (GRF) to 10 UMBC-affiliated STEM students, including eight alumni and two seniors who will soon begin...

UMBC is again celebrating major national recognition for talented student researchers with the announcement that Linda Wiratan ’19, biochemistry and molecular biology, has been named a 2018 – 2019...

New science faculty come to UMBC as experts in their fields, often with a decade of research experience. What may be less familiar is how to manage a large laboratory, from the ground up. How do...

Daniel Morris B.S., Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Summa Cum Laude Hometown: Lexington Park, Maryland Plans: Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania UMBC connected me with professors and...

Doopashika Welikala B.S., Biological Science; B.S, Anthropology; B.A, Sociology Magna Cum Laude Hometown: Gaithersburg, Maryland Plans: MSPH, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health...

Jonathan Werner B.S., Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Summa Cum Laude Hometown: Glen Burnie, Maryland Plans: Ph.D., Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory The Meyerhoff program taught me...

UMBC’s Presidential Faculty and Staff Awards offer a chance to reflect, each year, on the essential contributions of university employees to making UMBC a welcoming, supportive, and successful...

For over a century, speciation—where one species splits into two—has been a central focus of evolutionary research. But a new study almost 20 years in the making suggests “speciation...

The calendar may have flipped to 2018, but there are so many great milestones achieved by the UMBC community to recognize from 2017. Here are twelve top highlights: 1. Rhodes Scholar Naomi...

A new degree program developed jointly by UMBC and Montgomery College (MC), and soon to be offered at The Universities at Shady Grove (USG), will create opportunities for students of all...