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UMBC’s Rebekah Hounsell is helping unlock the mystery of dark energy with NASA’s Roman Telescope
Rebekah Hounsell is co-PI and project manager of the Roman Supernova Cosmology Project Infrastructure Team (PIT), tasked with determining the best way for the telescope to collect data about cosmic phenomena called type Ia supernovae.
UMBC’s Aaron Smith lab reveals how a harmful bacterium senses iron – and why it matters for fighting infection
A two-protein system inside the bacterium operates like a sensitive switch. The pair detects iron outside and inside the cell and then rewrites large parts of the microbe’s metabolism. The results suggest this system could become a target for more effective treatments for infections.
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Research Headlines
From UMBC News and Magazine
John Rennie Short, Public Policy, in World Future Review
Posted: April 25, 2014, 5:25 PM
Kate Brown, History, Wins the 2014 Ellis W. Hawley Prize from the Organization of American Historians
Posted: April 15, 2014, 5:51 PM
Robert Provine, Psychology, in The New Yorker
Posted: April 15, 2014, 5:46 PM
Celebrating Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement, 4/23
Posted: April 15, 2014, 5:18 PM
Justin Jacobs, Statistics Ph.D. student, receives Presidential Early Career Award in Science and Engineering
Posted: April 12, 2014, 3:33 AM
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