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Curtis Menyuk, CSEE Professor, has been elected a Fellow of SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics.

The distinction recognizes both his technical contributions to the field and his long-standing service to the optics community.

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UMBC discovery opens door to broad-spectrum antivirals against dozens of dangerous viruses

New research from the Koirala Lab, provides a a deeper understanding of how enteroviruses—including pathogens that cause polio, encephalitis, myocarditis, and the common cold—initiate replication by hijacking host-cell machinery.

 

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UMBC Research Forum Tackles High-Performance Computing

UMBC hosted its semi-annual Research Forum on May 1, 2015.  This semester’s forum focused on the role high-performance computing (HPC) can play in a variety of interdisciplinary applications, and...

Posted: May 18, 2015, 6:03 PM

UMBC Launches New Research@UMBC Website

UMBC’s Office of the Vice President for Research has launched a new website to increase awareness of UMBC’s research activity and to provide enhanced access to campus-wide resources that support...

Posted: September 18, 2014, 8:51 PM

CNMS Hosts 17th Annual SURF

The College of Natural and Mathematical Sciences hosted the 17th annual Summer Undergraduate Research Fest (SURF) on Wednesday, August 6. Over 200 students gave oral and poster presentations,...

Posted: August 15, 2014, 8:09 PM