Two researchers from The Hilltop Institute at UMBC just received a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to investigate hospital price transparency. With the nearly $300,000 award funded by the...
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By Zoë McLaren, associate professor of Public Policy, UMBC The rise of the highly transmissible delta variant around the U.S. has increased demand for rapid antigen COVID-19 tests that can be...
September 10, 2021
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By John Rennie Short, professor, School of Public Policy, UMBC Traffic is so ubiquitous in U.S. cities that until recently, imagining urban life without it meant looking to other nations for...
June 21, 2021
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Corbett in the Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Building on campus in April 2021. Photo by Marlayna Demond ’11. Everyone who’s ever met Kizzmekia Corbett ’08, M16, biological sciences and...
June 10, 2021
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UMBC students and staff have shown their resilience in myriad ways during the pandemic, but maybe nothing showcases the Retriever spirit more than the volunteer hours put in to assist in the...
June 9, 2021
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Laura Girling, director of UMBC’s Center for Aging Studies, breaks down stereotypes of people living with dementia through innovative research. Since 2019, the NIH’s National Institute of Aging...
February 1, 2021
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By Woodrow W. Winchester III, Graduate Program Director, Professional Engineering Programs, UMBC Of the many things that COVID-19 has made abundantly clear to us, surely one of them is a...
January 21, 2021
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By Zoë McLaren, associate professor, Public Policy UMBC Soon, people in the U.S. will be able to pick up a rapid antigen test for COVID-19 from their local drugstore without a prescription,...
December 17, 2020
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UMBC President Freeman Hrabowski and his wife Jackie recently volunteered to take part in a 25-month clinical trial of the COVID-19 vaccine invented by alumna Kizzmekia Corbett ’08, M16,...
November 18, 2020
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By Zoë McLaren, associate professor, public policy, UMBC COVID-19 cases are surging upward around the U.S., reaching 100,000 daily cases for the first time on Nov. 4 and 150,000 only eight...
November 18, 2020
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