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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 biologists discuss human health applications of studying plants’ circadian rhythms in The Conversation

Humans have been observing the circadian rhythms of plants for millennia, even if they couldn’t fully explain what they saw. In a new piece for The Conversation, Hua Lu, associate professor of...

Posted: December 1, 2017, 8:06 PM

Idea competition serves as springboard for young entrepreneurs

Each fall, student entrepreneurs at UMBC pitch their big ideas – Shark Tank-style, no less – for potential funding. And each year, their ideas span disciplines, including everything from a comic...

Posted: November 29, 2017, 8:55 PM

UMBC upgrades High Performance Computing Facility through new NSF grant, expanding possibilities for data-intensive research

The National Science Foundation recently awarded UMBC a Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) award totaling more than $550,000 to expand the university’s High Performance Computing Facility...

Posted: November 3, 2017, 3:36 PM

UMBC scientists measure plant productivity from space, with applications from farming to forest conservation

Two researchers at UMBC’s Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology (JCET) and colleagues have found that instrumentation on the International Space Station (ISS) can collect data measuring the...

Posted: November 1, 2017, 7:27 PM

Charissa Cheah receives Fulbright award to research identity development of Muslim Tunisian immigrant adolescents in Sicily

Charissa Cheah, professor of psychology, has received a Fulbright to collaborate with psychologists at the University of Palermo in Sicily to explore Muslim Tunisian immigrant adolescent identity...

Posted: October 31, 2017, 7:33 PM

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