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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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Research Headlines
From UMBC News and Magazine
How the darter got its stripes: New UMBC research expands on sexual selection theory to explain complicated animal patterns
Posted: May 22, 2020, 12:44 PM
UMBC’s Naghmeh Karimi receives NSF CAREER Award to develop long-lasting security for cryptographic chips
Posted: May 15, 2020, 5:21 PM
UMBC researchers receive a Fast Grant to study antivirals’ effectiveness against COVID-19
Posted: May 6, 2020, 10:13 PM
Virtual URCAD Puts Student Research on Broad Display
Posted: May 2, 2020, 12:50 AM
UMBC’s Jianwu Wang receives NSF CAREER Award to help climate scientists make discoveries from massive, complex data sets
Posted: April 28, 2020, 4:55 PM
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