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UMBC secures $1M+ Congressional Funding to Launch Lab Addressing Flood Risks

 

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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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Marjoleine Kars, History, on WAMU’s The Diane Rehm Show

A movie released last month tells the story of Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York who was kidnapped and sold into slavery.  “Twelve Years a Slave” powerfully depicts that...

Posted: November 1, 2013, 2:24 PM

Stuart Schwartz, CUERE, in the Baltimore Sun and TakePart

Radishes: They’re not just for salad anymore. In fact, they may be useful for controlling runoff into the Chesapeake. Stuart Schwartz, senior scientist with UMBC’s Center for Urban Environmental...

Posted: October 31, 2013, 6:29 PM