Research News

National Endowment for the Humanities Workshop at UMBC

Dresher Center and CAHSS host regional NEH Grants Workshop

UMBC welcomed the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) for a regional grant-writing workshop on February 20, 2015. The workshop, conducted by the NEH’s Division of Research Programs, was...

Posted: March 2, 2015, 2:10 PM

$50k awarded to CAST team for preemie respiration monitor

by Sarah Hansen Right: The winners and judges after the NCC-PDI conference and competition. Govind Rao, UMBC Professor and Director of the Center for Advanced Sensor Technology (CAST), was the...

Posted: February 26, 2015, 7:03 PM

Yujie Wang receives NASA Peer Award

Atmospheric correction algorithm aids air quality research

By Sarah Hansen Yujie Wang, Associate Research Scientist at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD and part of the Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology (JCET) between UMBC and...

Posted: February 25, 2015, 8:56 AM

UMBC-UMB Partnership Awards a Catalyst for Collaboration

UMBC and UMB celebrate research partnerships with symposium and innovation grants. [story re-posted from www.umbc.edu] Celebrating the rapid growth of our collaborative research programs,...

Posted: February 17, 2015, 1:48 PM

UMBC-UMB Partnership Symposium celebrates collaboration

New grants awarded and previous recipients report progress

Inaugural UMBC-UMB Research and Innovation Partnership Symposium celebrates cross-campus collaboration By Sarah Hansen Right: UMB President Jay Perman (left), UMBC President Freeman Hrabowski...

Posted: February 12, 2015, 9:33 PM

The Science of Attraction

Biologist Tamra Mendelson explains how sexual selection plays a major role in the evolution of vibrant features, from stripes to tail feathers. Male cardinals are red. Male peacocks have...

Posted: February 11, 2015, 10:08 PM

UMBC visits Japan to kick off cybersecurity partnership

Steiner and Moreira represent UMBC at Kyushu University

By Sarah Hansen UMBC Vice President for Research Karl V. Steiner and Vice Provost for Academic Affairs Antonio Moreira traveled to Fukuoka, Japan for the opening of Japan’s first academic...

Posted: February 9, 2015, 3:26 PM