Research News 2022-Present

UMBC’s Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies (GWST) department has received a $100,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation to implement its Advancing Gender and Sexuality Studies in Community...

On April 12, more than 150 students, staff, and faculty attended the first College of Natural and Mathematical Sciences (CNMS) GradFest in the University Center Ballroom. The event was the result...

Data from NASA’s newest Earth-observing satellite, which will provide insight into ocean health, air quality, and the effects of a changing climate, are now available. The Plankton, Aerosol,...

Written by Nkiru Nnawulezi, associate professor of psychology at UMBC, and Lauren Cattaneo, George Mason University About 1 in every 3 women, and 1 in 4 men, will experience domestic violence...

Written by Meredith Oyen, associate professor of history, UMBC The brief closure of the Darien Gap – a perilous 66-mile jungle journey linking South American and Central America – in February...

Written by John Rennie Short, professor emeritus of public policy, UMBC New York City is poised to launch the first congestion pricing plan to reduce traffic in a major U.S. metropolitan...

The University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), along with several institutional partners, has been selected to develop one of the first three lunar instruments chosen for implementation and...

Ramana Vinjamuri, associate professor in computer science and electrical engineering, recently received funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to support UMBC’s participation in a...

Written by Thomas F. Schaller, professor of political science, UMBC Rural white voters have long enjoyed outsize power in American politics. They have inflated voting power in the U.S....

Kimberly Moffitt, dean of the College of Arts, Humanities, and Socials Sciences, and co-pi Tamara Bhalla, associate professor of American studies and director of the Asian American studies minor,...