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Create and Collaborate

July 15, 2014 Stephen Bradley, an associate professor of visual arts, and Nicole King, an assistant professor of American Studies, engage the audience in a discussion of their research, a digital...

Posted: August 25, 2014, 12:41 PM

Burgeoning Bioinformatics

July 15, 2014 There are no test tubes, petri dishes or microscopes in Ivan Erill’s research lab. No chemical cabinets or safety goggles. Indeed, the room in the Biological Sciences Building where...

Posted: August 25, 2014, 12:39 PM

Windfall Prophets

Both this summer and last summer, UMBC scientists, using a remote sensing technology called LIDAR (Light Detection and Ranging), have been helping the state of Maryland in wind resource assessment...

Posted: August 25, 2014, 12:35 PM

New NSF and TEDCO Grant

UMBC Professors Nilanjan Banerjee and Ryan Robucci have been awarded an NSF grant from the NSF-NIH Smart and Connected Health program. The total sum is $650,000 over 3 years. It is a collaboration...

Posted: August 19, 2014, 8:52 PM

Street to Stream

Clarksburg, Maryland is a small, unincorporated area in northern Montgomery County. Last spring, the Montgomery County Council made the decision to limit new development in Clarksburg’s Ten Mile...

Posted: August 11, 2014, 9:34 PM

Farming The Bluefin Tuna

In a windowless laboratory in downtown Baltimore, some tiny, translucent fish larvae are swimming about in glass-walled tanks. They are infant bluefin tuna. Scientists in this laboratory are...

Posted: July 31, 2014, 1:48 AM

New Hope for People Living with Paralysis

July 16, 2014 Nilanjan Banerjee, computer science and electrical engineering, discusses his work developing textile based capacitive sensors that can capture subtle motions and give paralysis...

Posted: July 23, 2014, 2:35 PM

Lorraine Remer recognized as Highly Cited Researcher

July 3, 2014 Dr. Lorraine Remer, a Research Professor in Physics working at the Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology (JCET) at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center has been named among the...

Posted: July 23, 2014, 2:35 PM

UMBC co-hosts NIH Regional Grants Conference

June 27, 2014 NIH held its 2014 Regional Seminar on Program Funding and Grants Administration on June 25-27, 2014 in Baltimore, Maryland at the Inner Harbor. In partnership with NIH, UMBC and...

Posted: July 23, 2014, 2:34 PM

University of Idaho President visits UMBC

June 27, 2014 University of Idaho President Chuck Staben visited the UMBC campus to meet with UMBC President Freeman Hrabowski and Vice President for Research Karl Steiner to learn more about...

Posted: July 23, 2014, 2:34 PM