Smoke particles provide "seeds" that increase cooling by helping form clouds, and as a result, "The seeding effect is winning," over the warming effect of smoke blocking the clouds from reflecting...
March 5, 2018
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“Because speciation reversal is a big part of our own history,” says Kevin Omland, “getting a better understanding of how that happens should give us a better sense of who we are and where we came...
March 2, 2018
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9:24 AM
February 28 marks UMBC's first Giving Day — a marathon day of philanthropy dedicated to supporting the campus community now and in the future.
February 21, 2018
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3:51 PM
Thomas Smith and Yanhua Shih are hoping their new research will bring about a sea change in the physics community, and encourage even the most traditional physicists that quantum interference...
February 12, 2018
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4:02 PM
“The goal of the UMBC International Education Studies office is to ensure students are prepared and engaged to understand the international dimensions of their academic disciplines,” says Di...
January 31, 2018
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2:35 PM
“I’m hoping that in the future many people will be working in this area of cellular biochemistry, studying many metabolic enzymes in living cells,” says Songon An, whose work is on the leading...
January 30, 2018
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12:21 PM
People have pinned their hopes on quantum computers for the next leap forward in computing technology, “but my recent research has revealed that quantum computers will have limits of their own,"...
January 18, 2018
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4:55 PM
UMBC celebrated so many milestones in the past year. In thousands of ways, big and small, the UMBC community made their mark on 2017. Here are 12 top highlights.
January 12, 2018
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10:43 AM
The new finding “is attacking the bugaboo of this whole class of possible quantum computers,” says Jason Kestner. And yet, like so much in science, the finding “is something we stumbled across...
January 10, 2018
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2:31 PM
“As the biotechnology industry translates basic research from ‘bench to bedside,’ it needs a well-trained workforce,” says Dean Bill LaCourse. “The TLST program is designed from the ground up to...
January 10, 2018
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11:20 AM