“You can look at the data and you see discrepancies between the climate models and the observations,” says graduate student Kylie Hoffman. “Some of it we can explain, and some of it we can’t....
August 6, 2019
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"When I visited UMBC, I felt like everyone knows each other and supports each other in the physics department,” Song remembers. “That’s why I chose here.” Now, she's rising to become a leader in...
August 2, 2019
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The mantis shrimp visual system "is just extraordinarily strange," says Tom Cronin. His study of this remarkable system alongside colleague and co-winner Justin Marshall over the last 30 years has...
July 12, 2019
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Wayman and Dasgupta are the first members of the UMBC community to be selected since the program's inception in 1990, an indication of UMBC’s growing presence in Montgomery County through the...
June 26, 2019
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“The research results showed that for each undocumented student that graduates from a four-year college, who would not have gone otherwise, the net benefits to the state were $350,000," explains...
June 25, 2019
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“All the techniques we learned in Phage Hunters directly translate to the work we do in the lab on a daily basis,” says Anna Kawa '18. “Being on the cutting edge of biotech is really exciting,"...
June 24, 2019
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“The college has laid the foundation, and now is really in a strong position for growth,” says Dean Bill LaCourse. “It’s all about paying attention to the people and their needs,” he explains, so...
June 14, 2019
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With this new NIH grant, Jeff Leips says, “Ideally, I want to understand the mechanisms—what goes wrong with age and immunity? Once we know that, the next question is whether we can find ways to...
June 13, 2019
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“It’s quite cool,” Hua Lu says, “because, in both plants and animals, people are beginning to study the crosstalk between the circadian clock and the immunity system.”
June 12, 2019
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Sequencing spider glue genes is like, "picking a needle from a haystack,” says UMBC postdoc Sarah Stellwagen. She is the lead author of a new G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics article on sequencing two...
June 5, 2019
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