Research News

UMBC a partner in $12M NSF award for sustainability research

Cooperative agreement creates Urban Water Innovation Network

Note: This story has also been covered by the Daily Record, as detailed by this post in UMBC Insights. UMBC is a founding member of a new consortium of 14 U.S. academic institutions and key...

Posted: July 31, 2015, 3:15 PM

UMBC to Create Cybersecurity Educational Assessment Tools

Department of Defense will fund the project

Professors Alan Sherman (CSEE), Dhananjay Phatak (CSEE), and Linda Oliva (Education) have been awarded a research grant from the Department of Defense to create two educational cybersecurity...

Posted: July 24, 2015, 3:57 PM

Curtis Menyuk, CSEE, Wins Humboldt Research Award

Curtis Menyuk, computer science and electrical engineering, won the prestigious Humboldt Research Award. The award is granted by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation to scholars who have made a...

Posted: July 6, 2015, 11:28 AM

High performance computing REU Site program sets new records

Students from across US work w/ high profile clients at UMBC

UMBC's unique undergraduate research summer program in high performance computing just hit a new record: enrolling 33 students from across the nation with funding over $350,000. Supported by the...

Posted: June 28, 2015, 6:22 PM

The Sum of the Parts

By Andrew Myers From the Apple Watch to Fitbit, the rage in technology these days is all about wearable, touchable devices. Tech gurus and cutting-edge engineers talk of a day when all the many...

Posted: June 24, 2015, 1:54 PM

Turning the Tides

Even as a teenager, Lorraine Remer was fascinated by weather, tides and currents. At UMBC, she has made a career forging those key elements of climate into compelling research and a new business....

Posted: June 24, 2015, 1:52 PM

A Continuum of Care

UMBC Center for Aging Studies researchers receive $1.4 million grant for work to enhance the well-being of older adults. There are nearly 5,000 adult day care centers in the United States, but...

Posted: June 24, 2015, 1:50 PM

UMBC team's egg development insight in Nature Communications

Research demonstrates impact of collaboration across fields.

An interdisciplinary UMBC research team has combined developmental biology and mathematics research methods to reveal dramatic new insights on egg development in the latest issue of Nature...

Posted: June 18, 2015, 8:26 AM