For an independent filmmaker, recognition from the Sundance Film Festival is a big deal. This past January, Jovan James ’13, visual arts, along with co-director Elegance Bratton, presented their...
March 27, 2020
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by Katherine Seley-Radtke, Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UMBC, and President-Elect of the International Society for Antiviral Research Read Seley-Radtke’s April 3rd update of this...
March 25, 2020
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Dear UMBC Community, It is with great sadness that we share with you the passing of Dr. Maurice Berger, chief curator and research professor at UMBC’s Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture...
March 25, 2020
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March 20, 2020 Dear Members of the UMBC Community, Many are calling this period a defining moment for humankind, and history will judge us by how we respond. As the COVID-19 crisis...
March 21, 2020
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by Jeffrey Gardner, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences, UMBC Editor’s note: As concern about coronavirus grows, hand sanitizer is in high demand. Biologist Jeffrey Gardner explains why...
March 13, 2020
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“Historians know that the Confederacy ran out of food by the end of the Civil War, and it shouldn’t have because it was an agricultural society,” says Anne Rubin, professor of history at UMBC. “I...
March 10, 2020
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As the COVID-19 outbreak originating in China has spread to populations across all continents except Antarctica, racism and discrimination against Chinese-American people have also increased. A...
March 6, 2020
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In the 1930s, famed biologist Ernst Mayr became the first to study Pacific Robins. Based on his observations of the robins and other birds on Australia and its outlying islands, he developed...
March 6, 2020
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Venturing into a Gestapo interrogation cell is not the way many people would choose to do research. Nevertheless, Kristina R. Gaddy ’09, history and modern languages and linguistics, felt it...
March 5, 2020
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by Vandana Janeja, Professor of Information Systems, UMBC Canadian artificial intelligence (AI) firm BlueDot has been in the news in recent weeks for warning about the new coronavirus days ahead...
March 3, 2020
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