“Our hope is that this is only the first achievement of what will become a new, massively collaborative scientific approach to understanding the global environmental changes caused by humans over...
September 11, 2019
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“When you share a kitchenette with a biologist, a chemist, an engineer and somebody from public policy, it’s inevitable that new things will brew,” says Greg Szeto, who is moving in to the ILSB...
August 26, 2019
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"Being a valedictorian for me is about honoring South Asian women feminists whose achievements were not as visible when I was growing up. It is also about the need to transform research and...
May 17, 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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“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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UMBC’s Office of the Vice President for Research presented awards to support the work of two dozen UMBC faculty examining topics from health disparities among people with diabetes to natural...
December 18, 2018
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“Being on the Bahama Oriole Project was my first hands-on glimpse at international research,” Matthew Kane '19 says. “It was the first time I had seen scientists from two different countries...
November 6, 2018
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Forests store carbon, clean water, prevent soil erosion, and provide habitat for a wide range of species, “but all those benefits start kicking in when forests are older,” says Matthew Fagan....
November 6, 2018
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“More than half of the world's population lives in cities,” says Chris Swan, “and understanding how these environments function from the natural, physical and social science perspectives has never...
November 2, 2018
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Traveling far from home for an immersive research experience can be transformational for an undergraduate. Living and working in a completely new environment, with new colleagues, can be...
September 12, 2018
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