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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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UMBC manufacturing research center gets boost from new partnership with U.S. Army

The Center for Research in Emergent Manufacturing (CREM), which started as the ambitious idea of two UMBC researchers in 2019, is launching a major new project with the U.S. Army and other...

Posted: January 17, 2024, 11:45 AM

Building next-gen AI chips at UMBC: A Q&A with NSF CAREER award winner Chenchen Liu

Many recent artificial intelligence (AI) breakthroughs—such as smartphone tools that recognize your friends’ faces or understand your spoken commands—are based on a computing approach that was...

Posted: December 21, 2023, 12:15 PM

UMBC chapter of National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) shines at regional conference

Members of UMBC’s chapter of the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) traveled to Norfolk, Virginia for their annual regional conference in November and came home with numerous awards. ...

Posted: December 5, 2023, 5:40 PM

Cracking the code: International collaboration fosters cybersecurity

UMBC’s work in strengthening students’ preparedness in cybersecurity defense is proving effective not only on campus, but well beyond. This summer, three UMBC students competed in an international...

Posted: October 19, 2023, 6:06 PM

UMBC joins collaboration to create new STEM education, research center at Arecibo Observatory site in Puerto Rico

This week UMBC was named as one of four institutions chosen to work together on a National Science Foundation-funded project to establish a new science educational center at the Arecibo...

Posted: September 29, 2023, 2:18 PM

Cybersecurity expert Richard Forno appointed an honorary international professor

Richard Forno, assistant director of UMBC’s Center for Cybersecurity and a principal lecturer in the department of computer science and electrical engineering, has been appointed an honorary...

Posted: September 20, 2023, 2:48 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

UMBC leads research into light-based timing and navigation technologies for DOD-funded consortium

Every day, radio signals from GPS satellites help millions of people figure out what time it is and where they are. Yet the system is vulnerable to disruptions and attacks. Sometimes users are...

Posted: June 2, 2023, 12:32 PM

Leading through service: Meet the community builders in UMBC’s Class of 2023

When the impacts of COVID-19 had the world on pause in March 2020, like many others, Ify Jacob ’23, computer engineering, spent time sheltered at home thinking of what he would do once it was safe...

Posted: May 18, 2023, 4:01 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

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