Research News 2022-Present

A new initiative, which the organizers hope to expand, matched students from Baltimore City Community College with UMBC researchers. This summer the teams worked on projects advancing...

Ovarian cancer is often diagnosed after it has already spread to other parts of the body, at which point the five-year survival rate is under 30 percent. Further complicating treatment, standard...

Craig Saper’s new book tells the storied life of small press book publishers and the literary world they created. As readers, we tend to associate our favorite books with their authors, some...

On Sunday, August 30, after more than a decade of development, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope successfully launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The telescope, with a field of...

Large-scale oyster reef restoration in the Chesapeake Bay is successfully creating three-dimensional habitats that support larger, more diverse fish communities, according to new research from...

An airplane does not simply fly in one continuous arc; pilots or software flip between modes like climb, cruise, or land. A humanoid robot’s leg swings continuously through the air as it walks,...

Each summer, hundreds of Retrievers take their classroom skills and turn them into real-world experiences through internships. While their opportunities span the globe, many Retrievers choose to...

Corrie Francis Parks, professor of visual arts, is an inventor of animation techniques whose short films have been screened at major festivals around the world. Her numerous awards and honors now...

UMBC undergraduate students Noah Reichardt and Morgan Robbins spent this summer in Hawai‘i at one of the world’s top astronomy institutes, studying supermassive black holes and colliding galaxies,...

Akshay Java (Photo courtesy of Java) Akshay Java, M.S. ’03, Ph.D. ’08, computer science, is a seasoned technology leader whose career spans key roles across the tech industry, including...