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Top 5 ways URCAD is a uniquely UMBC experience
UMBC’s Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement Day (URCAD) is returning for its 29th year on April 16. For nearly three decades, the annual showcase highlights the research, scholarship,...
Posted: April 9, 2025, 3:16 PM
Students partner with Baltimore community members to measure ‘forever chemicals’ in local waters
On a sunny and unseasonably warm Halloween this past fall, a group of costumed UMBC students strolled the banks of the Inner Harbor in Baltimore. The costumes were in good fun, but the spirit...
Posted: April 2, 2025, 9:53 AM
UMBC team leads research into AI tools that can assess the feasibility of scientific claims
A multidisciplinary team of UMBC researchers was recently awarded $3.8 million from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop new computational methods for assessing the...
Posted: April 1, 2025, 12:31 PM
TowerCares Foundation makes $300,000 commitment to support UMBC cybersecurity students
The TowerCares Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the Laurel, Maryland-based Tower Federal Credit Union, has partnered with UMBC’s Cybersecurity Institute to create a new scholarship fund for...
Posted: March 25, 2025, 11:10 AM
Students celebrate Engineering and Computing Week with fun and networking
Where can UMBC engineering and computing students mingle with friends and mentors over sweet treats, test their knowledge and design skills in friendly competition, and network with potential...
Posted: February 28, 2025, 2:24 PM
Tree sap batteries: Student entrepreneur Samuel Bendek imagines a clean energy future less reliant on critical minerals
When Samuel Bendek, a current mechanical engineering sophomore at UMBC, was still in high school, he worked in a soccer ball factory in his native country of Colombia. At some point, he was given...
Posted: February 25, 2025, 1:45 PM
UMBC delegates build international connections at prestigious science and technology conference in India
A six-person UMBC team built international connections at the “PIWOT – World of Technology” conference, held in late January in Mumbai, India. The conference is organized by the alumni association...
Posted: February 20, 2025, 10:37 AM
International exchange brings opportunities to question assumptions—in science and life
Making assumptions is a habit of life, a way to speed up decisions. Sometimes these mental short-cuts, however, lead us astray. Such was the situation when Lorenz Kopp, an engineering...
Posted: February 18, 2025, 4:07 PM
UMBC leverages interdisciplinary expertise to launch Quantum Science Institute
UMBC has received $1.5 million from the National Institute of Standards and Technology to organize a new UMBC Quantum Science Institute. The funding will support graduate fellowships for students...
Posted: February 12, 2025, 3:54 PM
Is DOGE a cybersecurity threat? A security expert explains the dangers of violating protocols and regulations that protect government computer systems
Written by Richard Forno, principal lecturer in computer science and electrical engineering, UMBC The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), President Donald Trump’s special commission...
Posted: February 10, 2025, 9:40 AM
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