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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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Vanderlei Martins on the Value of Cube Satellites

Vanderlei Martins, a professor of physics and researcher with the Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology (JCET) joined Sheilah Kast on Maryland Morning to discuss his cube satellite or CubeSat...

Posted: February 23, 2015, 7:54 PM

Biology and Batteries

In the quest to make a better battery Evgenia Barannikova, a graduate student at UMBC in the department of chemistry and biochemistry, has isolated a peptide, a small sequence of amino acids,...

Posted: February 17, 2015, 8:23 PM

U.S. Secretary of Energy, Ernest Moniz, Visits UMBC

Last week the U.S. Secretary of Energy, Ernest Moniz, visited UMBC to meet with President Hrabowski, faculty and students. WBAL’s Tim Tooten covered the visit. Tooten reported that Moniz...

Posted: December 18, 2014, 6:57 PM

UMBC Undergraduate Research Conference a Success

UMBC held its 17th annual undergraduate research symposium on October 25. This event was open to students from outside UMBC, with participants coming from Maryland universities and colleges, as...

Posted: November 2, 2014, 4:22 PM

CNMS Hosts 17th Annual SURF

The College of Natural and Mathematical Sciences hosted the 17th annual Summer Undergraduate Research Fest (SURF) on Wednesday, August 6. Over 200 students gave oral and poster presentations,...

Posted: August 15, 2014, 8:09 PM

Meyerhoff Expansion Program: Nature Jobs

Virginia Gewin writes in Nature, about diversity in science and the problems facing minorities in science. Gewin writes that, Neil deGrasse Tyson has suggested that the low numbers of minorities...

Posted: August 3, 2014, 8:37 PM