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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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Nurturing peace through daily acts, collaborative research with Afro-Colombian women in Colombia’s Pacific Northwest

Over 10 years ago, Tania Lizarazo met with Justa Mena Córdoba in Chocó, Colombia. Before Mena Córdoba passed away, Lizarazo promised to tell her story as one of the founding commissioners of the...

Posted: August 5, 2025, 8:58 AM

UMBC’s human services psychology doctoral program is inspiring careers to serve people with opioid use disorders and post-traumatic stress

If you could develop a treatment to improve the care of millions of people with opioid use disorder (OUD) and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), where would you start? For doctoral students...

Posted: August 1, 2025, 12:16 PM

Yasmine Kotturi named one of nine inaugural Computing Research Association Trustworthy AI Research Fellows

Yasmine Kotturi, an assistant professor of human-centered computing, was selected by the Computing Research Association (CRA) to be part of the inaugural cohort of Trustworthy AI Research Fellows....

Posted: August 1, 2025, 11:50 AM

Internationally minded excellence: Faculty and staff across all three UMBC colleges receive Fulbright U.S. Scholar awards to teach and research abroad

Four UMBC faculty and staff members have received highly competitive Fulbright U.S. Scholar awards to teach, conduct research, and forge cross-cultural connections around the world in the coming...

Posted: July 31, 2025, 2:51 PM

Leaf year: PACE satellite data reveals global plant health

A new study using data collected by NASA’s Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) satellite established a novel method to determine how productive plants are worldwide. The new remote...

Posted: July 29, 2025, 2:52 PM

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