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...
“The approach that we propose will induce chemical reactions that would otherwise need a lot of harsh reagents and organic solvents, and just a lot of nasty stuff,” Lisa Kelly says. “This is a...
The research was made possible by "a clever reengineering in flight of how to operate the spacecraft and the instrument,” Mehdi Benna says. “And by doing both—the spacecraft doing something it was...
“Metals open up the toolbox for the protein to be able to accomplish so much more,” Aaron Smith says. His new NSF and NIH funding will allow Smith’s lab to increase understanding of how one metal,...
“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...
“UMBC is giving me the ultimate opportunity of time and support to think, write, and teach about what matters to me the most—conducting research about my community,” says Fernando Tormos-Aponte,...
The relationship between urbanization and water chemistry was "more complex than we thought," Matthew Baker says. Overall, though, he says, "We need to pay closer attention to the materials we’re...
Sander Goossens and his team used their new analysis "to see if there was anything we could say about the planet’s deep interior that people hadn’t been able to say before." There was: The team...
Just days after U.S. News again recognized UMBC as one of the nation’s top universities for teaching and innovation, the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings have named UMBC a...
“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...