Engineering and Computing Education Program News

Now in its twenty-first year, UMBC’s Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement Day (URCAD) “attains a certain kind of maturity,” but it’s “thrilling to see that as it comes of age, it...

Researchers and campus leaders from UMBC and the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) convened at bwtech@UMBC South on April 12 to celebrate ongoing research partnerships and announce a new...

The Office of the Vice President for Research has awarded Strategic Awards for Research Transitions (START) and Summer Faculty Fellowship (SFF) awards to 24 UMBC faculty representing a broad range...

Jeffrey Gardner, assistant professor of biological sciences, is prospecting for enzymes. The field of “bio-prospecting” has contributed to discoveries such as anti-cancer drugs and super-strong...

In a new article for Issues in Science and Technology, President Freeman Hrabowski and Peter Henderson, senior advisor to the president, describe the concerning continued underrepresentation of...

On April 22, 2017, millions around the world will march in support of the value of scientific research. Among them will be more than a hundred Meyerhoff Scholars Program students and alumni in...

A new study led by Thomas Peterson Ph.D. ’16, biological sciences, reveals thousands of previously ignored, rare mutations that likely contribute to cancer. Peterson conducted the work as a...

Even computers make mistakes. In classical computers, tens of thousands of atoms are involved in each computation, so the system can tolerate a few mistakes and still give correct output. But in...

A team of researchers including UMBC’s Eileen Meyer and Markos Georganopoulos have found strong evidence of a striking astrophysical phenomenon: a supermassive black hole traveling away from the...

The Center for Research and Exploration in Space Science and Technology (CRESST II) is prepared to embark on a new era of innovative research and teaching with the commitment of $87.5 million from...