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Curtis Menyuk, Professor in CSEE, elected as Fellow of SPIE – the international Society for Optics and Photonics

Tyler Josephson, Chemical Engineering Professor, chosen as Simons Foundation Pivot Fellow.

Dr. Josephson will join a research group at Carnegie Mellon University where he’ll study advanced topics at the intersection of formal mathematics and computer science. He plans to build simulation software integrated with formal proofs of mathematical correctness.

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.

Ian Stockwell recently launched a project to address healthcare interventions such as healthy foods and safe housing

Celebrating 500 days in orbit and counting! UMBC’s HARP2 satellite has been capturing important data about our planet’s atmosphere, surface, and oceans that has resulted in important discoveries.

Erin Hogan, Associate Professor of Spanish, publishes new book that explores death of the male heads of household through a feminist, socio-economic inequality lens.

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First Roth Research Award recipient broadens horizons after summer research experience

Inioluwa Oluseyi has wanted to be a neurosurgeon as long as she can remember. She didn’t anticipate how much fly husbandry would play a role in her reaching her goal. In a fall 2022 genetics class...

Posted: September 22, 2023, 4:09 PM

UMBC hosts 11th International Digital Storytelling Conference

For nearly two decades, UMBC faculty and students have been deeply engaged in story-driven research. The UMBC community’s contributions to this humanities-centered scholarship has included...

Posted: September 20, 2023, 1:36 PM

Justin Webster receives NSF grant to study mathematical models behind oscillation of plane wings, bridges, energy harvesters

Although objects like bridges, buildings, and airplane wings may seem quite rigid, by design they are capable of a surprising deal of bending. This elasticity allows them to deform safely and...

Posted: September 6, 2023, 2:15 PM

Should AI be permitted in college classrooms? 4 scholars weigh in

Written by Nicholas Tampio, Fordham University; Asim Ali, Auburn University; Patricia A. Young, professor of education UMBC, and Shital Thekdi, University of Richmond One of the most intense...

Posted: September 6, 2023, 10:16 AM

Deepak Koirala to explore how RNA viruses hijack cellular machinery, with eye to future drug treatments

Viruses must hijack their hosts’ cellular machinery to make more viruses, so preventing this hijacking could lead to a host of new treatments for viral diseases. However, much is unknown about how...

Posted: August 30, 2023, 12:03 PM

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