Engineering and Computing Education Program News

This fall, hundreds of students from across the East Coast gathered to present their research and compete for awards at UMBC’s Undergraduate Research Symposium in the Chemical and Biological...

UMBC’s Undergraduate Research Symposium for the Chemical and Biological Sciences has become a destination for young researchers across the Eastern Seaboard, and it’s still growing. This year’s...

Arissa Falat ‘18, biochemistry and molecular biology, knew last spring how she wanted to spend her summer vacation: making new discoveries in a lab. She did just that, working with Steven...

Marking the last weeks of the season, UMBC’s University Center Ballroom buzzed with a contagious energy last month as more than 150 undergraduate and high school students from across the U.S....

Every so often, we’ll chat with an alum about what they do and how they got there. We recently caught up with Charles Mason III ’14, graphic design, an interdisciplinary artist and curator working...

As UMBC’s Class of 2017 busily prepares for commencement—reserving caps and gowns, signing job contracts, completing visa paperwork to research, study, and teach abroad—the UMBC community honors...

Daniel Ocasio B.S., Chemical Engineering Summa Cum Laude, Certificate: Honors College Hometown: Severn, Maryland Plans: Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley UMBC fosters a diverse...

Isabel Geisler B.A., Global Studies Cum Laude Hometown: Middletown, Maryland Plans: Ph.D., Northeastern University At UMBC no one has ever told me to temper my ambitions. It was here I...

Samantha Furman B.S. Mathematics Magna Cum Laude Hometown: Montgomery Village, MD Plans: Ph.D., Computational Biology, Carnegie Mellon University and University of Pittsburgh My favorite...

Natalie DeNigris B.S., Physics Magna Cum Laude, Certificate: Honors College Hometown: Kensington, MD Plans: Ph.D., Astronomy, U Mass.-Amherst; Intern, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center UMBC...