Research News 2022-Present

Eight UMBC students and alumni have been awarded the prestigious 2026 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (GRFP), a highly competitive honor that supports outstanding graduate...

New UMBC research reveals how two different parts of the hippocampus—the brain’s memory center—team up in a key reward region to help mice, and likely humans, combine memories of places and...

UMBC researchers have secured a $1,031,000 congressional earmark to launch a vital new initiative tackling the escalating threat of flooding in Maryland’s most vulnerable communities. Led by...

Kristina Gaddy ’09, saves and gathers manuscripts, sheet music, pictures, maps, drawings, and anecdotes, sharing them on her blog to make public what she finds hidden in archives, private...

Kristina Gaddy came to UMBC as a Sondheim Public Affairs Scholar. Her passion for history and languages—Swedish, German, and Spanish—led her to graduate with a dual degree in history and modern...

Keegan Cook Finberg, an assistant professor of English, started graduate school at UC Santa Cruz during the financial crisis of 2008, in a moment of extreme recession. “Privatization and austerity...

The Association of International Education Administrators (AIEA) has awarded UMBC’s Global Learning Lab one of two Innovative Excellence in Internationalization Awards. This award honors creative,...

Zhibo Zhang, professor of physics, has been named director of the Goddard Planetary Heliophysics Institute (GPHI), UMBC’s arm of the Partnership for Heliophysics and Space Environment Research...

Piles of snow and bitter cold didn’t deter U.S. congressional representative Don Beyer from meeting with UMBC’s Carlos Romero Talamás in late January to discuss the hot topic of fusion energy....

Mehdi Kiani (Brad Ziegler/UMBC) Personalized and precise treatments will improve patients’ quality of life in a fast-approaching future driven by AI, wearable tech, and other innovations. UMBC...