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Zhibo Zhang named director of the Goddard Planetary Heliophysics Institute (GPHI)

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.

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.

Tyler Josephson, Chemical Engineering Professor, was selected by the Simons Foundation as a Pivot Fellow.

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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Soccer kiss scandal exposes how structural sexism in Spain can be a laughing matter

Written by Erin K Hogan, associate professor of Spanish, UMBC and Maria Garcia-Puente, California State University, San Bernardino. Amid expressions of outrage and disgust over a...

Posted: September 29, 2023, 10:18 AM

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

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