Information Systems News

UMBC has marked the start of summer by hosting statewide kickoff events for Maryland’s newest group of public service scholars, who will serve at state agencies and nonprofits over the coming...

Helena Mentis, assistant professor of information systems and 2016 recipient of a prestigious NSF CAREER Award, is seeing results in new research using activity trackers and other motion sensors...

Gloria Opoku-Boateng Ph.D. Information Systems Magna Cum Laude Hometown: Laurel, Maryland Plans: User Experience Research Scientist, Northrop Grumman Corporation Here at UMBC, I was...

Matthew Landen B.S., Computer Science and Mathematics Summa Cum Laude Hometown: Ellicott City, Maryland Plans: Ph.D., Georgia Tech UMBC has taught me the value of and need for...

Gabrielle Salib B.S., Interdisciplinary Studies (Human-Centered Computing) Hometown: Millersville, Maryland Plans: Ph.D., Drexel University Throughout my four years at UMBC, I constantly met...

The spring 2017 UMBC Research Forum focused on innovative research in aging and the life course—a notably far-reaching area of study that transcends a diverse range of fields. Speakers discussed...

At the fourth annual Cangialosi Business Innovation Competition, held on April 26, 2017, six finalists pitched their business ideas to a three-judge expert panel. The projects, selected from 33...

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...

UMBC’s Elect Her workshop offered an engaging introduction to electoral politics for dozens of young women from UMBC and local high schools this spring. Kate Drabinski, senior lecturer in gender...

The Grand Challenge Scholars Program (GCSP) hosted its inaugural symposium in February, featuring lightning talks by faculty who described their research in relation to the program’s 14 global...