Quantum computers have the potential to revolutionize communications, cybersecurity, and more. But as Sebastian Deffner notes, “Even quantum computing has shortcomings.” Deffner and Nathan Myers...
As we prepare to close the book on 2020, we want to take a look back at some of UMBC’s most important chapters from this past year. Here are our top 20 top memories from 2020.
UMBC’s newest undergraduate program has been recognized for its contributions to enhancing the regional biotech workforce. A partnership with Montgomery College, the program’s interdisciplinary...
UMBC's Translational Life Science Technology degree is one of UMBC's newest academic programs. The interdisciplinary program "is different from other majors," says Titina Sirak '20, "because you...
Daniel Wines and Can Ataca are "trying to stay five or so years ahead of experimentalists," Wines says. Their computational research lays the groundwork for developing 2D materials for particular...
New research led by graduate student Adam Leah Harvey may put to bed a long-term controversy about where jets coming from black holes release their energy.
Yonathan Zohar has stayed in Baltimore for 30 years because the environment is conducive to research that has a positive societal impact. His early work enabled the growth of the aquaculture...
Sam Patterson ’21, M29, is now the second student in UMBC history to receive a Rhodes Scholarship. He will pursue an M.Sc. in the Nature, Society, and Environmental Governance program at Oxford...
Professor Bimal Sinha, who founded UMBC’s statistics department in 1985, is a beloved and decorated faculty member who has helped transform UMBC into a national leader in statistics education....
“I think this project has really big implications for how we think about development and how organs and tissues function,” Michelle Starz-Gaiano says, “because it’s looking at aspects that people...