“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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It wouldn't be a proper farewell to 2018 without reminiscing about some of the biggest UMBC stories from the year. Here are ten highlights from a year we won't soon forget.
January 15, 2019
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The program climbed up four places this year, reaching #19 and joining other leading institutions on the 2019 Best Online Information Technology Programs list.
January 15, 2019
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“It’s important for UMBC to have an impact in our local community. UMBC is a public university and we are part of the community,” says Fayo Ojo ‘20, computer science, who helped coordinate the...
January 10, 2019
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UMBC ranked eighth among all top large employers in the region—the only university and only government institution featured on the list. In describing UMBC as a workplace, President Hrabowski has...
January 9, 2019
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This week, Times Higher Education shined a spotlight on UMBC’s advancements in graduating more low-income and minority students in the sciences—what it calls the “holy grail of academia.”...
January 4, 2019
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UMBC Chess competed in the 2018 Pan-American Intercollegiate Team Chess Championship, held in San Francisco, California, December 27 – 30. “The Pan-Am tournament was great for all of the players...
January 2, 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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