Research News

Hilltop Wins Award to Develop Multi-Payer Analytic Tool

UMBC’s Hilltop Institute, with its partners ServBeyond Solutions and A-G Associates, has just been awarded a $2 million contract from the Maryland Health Services Cost Review Commission (HSCRC) to...

Posted: March 3, 2020, 1:05 PM

Hidden by a pleasant scent

The health consequences of flavor in e-cigarettes

By Weihong Lin, Professor of Biological Sciences, and Rakaia Kenney, Research Assistant, UMBC Millions of Americans are vaping, and some are getting sick. Since June 2019, 2,711 have been...

Posted: February 9, 2020, 2:39 PM

Carnegie honors UMBC as a community-engaged university

This story was written by Catalina Sofia Dansberger Duque and first appeared on news.umbc.edu The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has honored UMBC with its distinguished...

Posted: February 3, 2020, 10:59 AM

$1M NIH grant to Prof Gong for wearable sensor

helps breast cancer survivors maintain medication schedules

This story was written by Megan Hanks and first appeared on news.umbc.edu After patients with breast cancer finish their treatment, they are prescribed daily medications to prevent cancer...

Posted: January 23, 2020, 11:15 AM

Hilltop and UMB SOM to Develop New Hospital Quality Measure

UMBC’s Hilltop Institute and UMB SOM’s Department of Emergency Medicine to Develop Algorithm to Augment 30-Day All-Cause Readmission Measure The Hilltop Institute at UMBC, in partnership with...

Posted: January 17, 2020, 10:29 AM

UMBC receives NSF support to enhance data science

Scope includes courses, research, and student experiences

This story was written by Megan Hanks and first appeared on news.umbc.edu Data science has rapidly grown at UMBC, and faculty are now working to enhance data science courses, research, and...

Posted: January 10, 2020, 6:38 AM