Join the Economics Council and Accounting Club on February 17th at 6 PM at ILSB 118!
We’re bringing in 3 amazing guest speakers to talk about some key topics in finance and economics:
Snacks will be provided!
We hope to see you there!
Pun of the Week: Why did the economist start a band? Because he wanted to study the economics of "scale"!
Are you interested in economic policy and how government decisions shape the economy? Join UMBC’s Fiscal Policy Challenge Team! This is a great opportunity to work with other students to analyze real-world economic issues, propose solutions, and compete against other schools. No prior experience is needed, just an interest in policy, budgeting, and problem-solving.
If you’re curious about how fiscal policy impacts everything from inflation to government spending, this is your chance to dive in. You’ll develop practical skills, collaborate with teammates, and gain experience that looks great on a resume. Sign up using the form link below, and we’ll be in touch with more details!
Interest form ]]>CoLab is an in-person, paid summer internship in narrative-based research for UMBC undergraduates. Held during Summer Session One, student interns will work on interdisciplinary project teams to conduct research, create effective narratives, and develop public-facing final products that support the goals of on and off campus community-engaged organizations and scholars. Open to all majors, this is an excellent opportunity for students in STEM fields to learn to tell effective stories and for students in social science and humanities fields to gain research and technical skills.
Participants who successfully complete the internship receive a $3000 stipend and a tuition scholarship for the 3-credit internship course.
Program Dates
CoLab 2025 will be held during Summer Session One and meets in-person from Monday, June 2nd through Friday, June 27th.
PLEASE NOTE: During these dates, student interns are required to
dedicate Monday through Friday from 9:30 am – 4:00 pm to the in-person,
on-campus internship. Participants will have preparatory work to
complete on their own the week prior to the in-person start date of 6/2,
and a final reflective paper to submit the week following the final
in-person date of 6/27.
Summer 2025 Projects and Application can be found here.
UMBC Physics Nobel Lecture
With the invention of lasers, the intensity of a light wave was increased by orders of magnitude over what had been achieved with a light bulb or sunlight. This much higher intensity led to new phenomena being observed, such as violet light coming out when red light went into the material. After Gérard Mourou and I developed chirped pulse amplification, also known as CPA, the intensity again increased by more than a factor of 1,000 and it once again made new types of interactions possible between light and matter. We developed a laser that could deliver short pulses of light that knocked the electrons off their atoms. This new understanding of laser-matter interactions, led to the development of new machining techniques that are used in laser eye surgery or micromachining of glass used in cell phones.
Donna Stricklandis a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Waterloo and is one of the recipients of the Nobel Prize in Physics 2018 for developing chirped pulse amplification with Gérard Mourou, her PhD supervisor at the time. They published this Nobel-winning research in 1985 when Strickland was a PhD student at the University of Rochester in New York state. Together they paved the way toward the most intense laser pulses ever created. The research has several applications today in industry and medicine — including the cutting of a patient’s cornea in laser eye surgery, and the machining of small glass parts for use in cell phones.
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