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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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UMBC’s Lisa Kelly receives NSF grant to develop a safer, greener chemical production method

At some point in its development, every drug, high-tech piece of clothing, and synthetic building material was touched by a chemist. However, getting the atoms attached to each other in just the...

Posted: December 17, 2019, 5:41 PM

Team led by UMBC’s Mehdi Benna is the first to map a planet’s global wind patterns, and they weren’t Earth’s

Today, a paper published in Science documents for the first time the global wind circulation patterns in the upper atmosphere of a planet, 120 to 300 kilometers above the surface. The findings are...

Posted: December 12, 2019, 7:07 PM

UMBC’s Aaron Smith examines molecular role of iron in human health with $1.5M in new grants

UMBC’s Aaron Smith is now thinking “bigger picture” about how his lab’s research can support human health at the molecular level thanks to $1.5 million in new research funding. Smith, assistant...

Posted: November 12, 2019, 9:35 PM

We have liftoff! UMBC-developed mini satellite launched into space to study climate, air quality

In the early morning hours of Saturday, November 2, a few hundred guests at the NASA Wallops Flight Facility gathered at the VIP launch viewing site—a grassy pad near a large tent. Sitting on...

Posted: November 8, 2019, 4:52 AM

UMBC’s newest Postdoctoral Fellows for Faculty Diversity explore who has a voice in literature, policy, and social movements

“UMBC is giving me the ultimate opportunity of time and support to think, write, and teach about what matters to me the most—conducting research about my community,” says Fernando Tormos-Aponte,...

Posted: October 28, 2019, 7:05 PM

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