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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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From UMBC News and Magazine
Dean Moffitt interviewed about media and Black hair and body politics
Posted: March 7, 2024, 12:44 PM
The Anthropocene is not an epoch − but the age of humans is most definitely underway
Posted: March 7, 2024, 11:41 AM
UMBC fusion researchers get TV spotlight at world’s largest physics meeting
Posted: March 4, 2024, 3:48 PM
National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences highlight Professor Upal Ghosh’s work cleaning contaminated waterways
Posted: February 23, 2024, 3:53 PM
Turkey will stop sending imams to German mosques – here’s why this matters
Posted: February 20, 2024, 1:07 PM
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