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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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bwtech@UMBC’s Potomac Photonics makes big strides in micro-manufacturing

Potomac Photonics, a bwtech@UMBC-based micro-manufacturing company, uses lasers, 3D printers and other technologies to alter and develop products with extreme precision, to the scale of one...

Posted: August 4, 2016, 2:59 PM

Phenomenal World: Juliana and Homer Schamp Memorial Scholarship seeks to inspire the next generation of teachers

Think back to the science classes you took as a child. What do you remember about them? Did you watch a caterpillar spin a cocoon and emerge a butterfly, or a tadpole grow into a frog? Did you...

Posted: July 27, 2016, 1:00 PM

Meet SCIART: Groundbreaking fellowship opens students’ eyes to interdisciplinary careers

In early June, eight undergraduates arrived at UMBC for the first edition of SCIART. The unique summer fellowship program funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation seeks to “continue to develop...

Posted: July 26, 2016, 4:52 PM

UMBC Ph.D. student makes surprise discovery of natural back-up system in fish reproduction

What happens when a scientist gets a research result that flies in the face of their expectations? More research leading to new, compelling discoveries. Yonathan Zohar’s lab at the Institute of...

Posted: July 15, 2016, 6:11 PM

PBS NovaNext highlights Daniel Lobo’s work solving biological mysteries with evolving computer models

Other scientists thought it couldn’t be done. One called it “ridiculously impossible.” But Michael Levin, a biology professor at Tufts University, disagreed. Levin hired Daniel Lobo, now an...

Posted: July 13, 2016, 3:59 PM

UMB-UMBC Partnership Symposium celebrates research collaborations with impact

UMBC and the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) celebrated new and recent recipients of UMB-UMBC Research and Innovation Partnership Grants at a symposium held last month on UMB’s downtown...

Posted: July 8, 2016, 4:22 PM

“Smog Blog” run by UMBC students becomes go-to air quality reference for national audience

When Jill Engel-Cox Ph.D. ’04, marine-estuarine environmental sciences, started the Smog Blog in 2003, it served as “kind of an online lab notebook,” she says. In the early 2000s, there were...

Posted: June 30, 2016, 6:37 PM

UMBC celebrates the career of Bimal Sinha at 10th annual Probability and Statistics Day

The highly anticipated 2016 Probability and Statistics Day at UMBC on May 20 and 21 featured numerous compelling talks from leading statisticians. Previous years included workshops and student...

Posted: June 22, 2016, 7:55 PM

Chris Geddes solves common problem in medical testing with DNA chopping biotech invention

Chris D. Geddes, professor of chemistry and biochemistry and director of UMBC’s Institute of Fluorescence, is no stranger to entrepreneurship. He has numerous patents and commercialized products...

Posted: June 16, 2016, 1:58 PM

Eight bwtech@UMBC companies named 2016 Maryland Incubator Company of the Year finalists

The bwtech@UMBC Research & Technology Park is home to more than a third of all finalists for the 2016 Maryland Incubator Company of the Year Awards (ICOY). These eight (of 22) ICOY finalists...

Posted: June 16, 2016, 1:43 PM

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