“For decades, the scientific community has known that two different structural forms of HIV RNA exist—they just didn’t know what controls that balance. So our discovery that a single nucleotide is...
April 23, 2020
·
2:03 PM
The following list of posts is filtered
Clear Filter
Posts
“As soon as the [mantis shrimp] notice you, they’ll turn around and zip straight to some sort of shelter,” Patel said, based on his field experience. “That got me wondering how they go about...
April 9, 2020
·
11:17 AM
“Even in this well-studied group of birds, that’s been a textbook example since 1942, we did not really know what the units of biodiversity were,” says Kevin Omland. He and postdoc Anna Kearns...
March 6, 2020
·
1:36 PM
Cindy Chelius, Miranda Marvel, Naqiya Ghulamali, and Ryan Oliver study very different things, but they are all driven to contribute to positive change through their research. They also hope to...
December 17, 2019
·
5:49 PM
Al-Adhami earned first place in two qualifying rounds of the competition, on his path to claiming the national title. In Nashville, Al-Adhami and nine other finalists presented their three-minute...
December 13, 2019
·
1:52 PM
“As an engineer, I’m looking to develop technology that can make the science happen,” says Dominik Cieslak. That's exactly what Cieslak and the rest of the team have accomplished with their...
November 7, 2019
·
11:52 PM
UMBC’s team competed in the biomedical and bioengineering innovation student category of the competition, and presented a device called ASTEK, which allows physicians to more effectively treat...
August 12, 2019
·
12:09 PM
“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
·
5:32 PM
"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
·
4:47 PM
When students come to UMBC, they bring with them life experiences that shape the program they choose, the mentors they find, the research questions they ask, and the communities they build on...
May 10, 2019
·
12:00 PM