“The new Times Higher Education impact rankings are distinct from other university rankings in that they are a measure of the difference UMBC is making in the world,” says UMBC's Katharine H....
April 5, 2019
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You’re a U.S. soldier, motoring across the desert at 60 miles an hour in an Army truck. Suddenly, a red light flashes on your dashboard—an instrument has detected traces of explosive material on...
April 2, 2019
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The experimental design at each site was simple, “but to manage and deploy it across the globe to all seven continents was a Herculean task that could only be done with a network of colleagues,”...
February 27, 2019
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The grant will support efforts to optimize an innovative procedure for growing fish that can't reproduce. "Everybody has been looking for another way to develop reproductively sterile fish,”...
January 31, 2019
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“The drug you design ten years from now may already be obsolete,” Ivan Erill says. In a new study in Frontiers in Microbiology, Erill and colleagues describe how bacteria that existed hundreds of...
January 30, 2019
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“We have to think about more strategic and clever ways of attacking bugs,” says Aaron Smith. His work studies nutrient uptake mechanisms, specifically how bacteria acquire iron, as potential...
January 28, 2019
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“We’ve never seen anything exactly like the Cow,” Amy Lien says, “which is very exciting.” Her team at NASA's Swift Observatory hypothesizes that a black hole tearing apart a white dwarf star...
January 22, 2019
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“Oyster aquaculture is growing in Maryland," says Colleen Burge. As long as growers employ proper management techniques, "This paper suggests this growing aquaculture industry could actually...
January 22, 2019
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The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently released its latest Higher Education Research and Development (HERD) survey, including UMBC among the top 150 U.S. universities in federal research...
December 20, 2018
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“We know that a lot of insects migrate, but we have full life history and full migration data for only a couple. This is the first dragonfly in the Western Hemisphere for which we know this,” says...
December 19, 2018
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