Research News

Room-Sized 3D Scanner to be Built at UMBC

NSF award will benefit users across campus community

The National Science Foundation has awarded UMBC a Major Research Instrumentation grant to acquire a 3D scanner the size of a room. The scanner will work by having many digital cameras...

Posted: October 24, 2014, 4:11 PM

UMBC student research to benefit from $18M grant from NIH

STEM BUILD@UMBC initiative part of $240 million NIH program

Faculty researchers, administrators, and staff across UMBC cheered when the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced by teleconference on October 22, 2014, a groundbreaking series of awards...

Posted: October 22, 2014, 3:33 PM

Dr. Strow's Atmospheric Spectroscopy Group Wins NASA Award

The UMBC Atmospheric Spectroscopy Laboratory, led by Dr. Larrabee Strow, has been collaborating with NASA/California Institute of Technology's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) AIRS Project for many...

Posted: October 14, 2014, 10:23 AM

UMBC Dining Hall Serves Seafood Grown Sustainably by IMET

The UMBC dining hall recently served sustainably grown seafood from the Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology (IMET).  The scientists at IMET conduct marine and environmental research...

Posted: October 9, 2014, 10:27 PM

UMBC Partners in Creation of National Lab for Cybersecurity

Center will bridge government, industry and higher education

UMBC will play an exciting role in strengthening our nation’s cybersecurity infrastructure through a new Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) announced this week. The National...

Posted: October 9, 2014, 11:15 AM

Grants Awarded by the Hrabowski Fund for Innovation

The spring 2014 projects selected to receive funding from the Hrabowski Fund for Innovation are: IMPLEMENTATION AND RESEARCH GRANT Re-playing the Past: Building a Digital Game for the History...

Posted: October 7, 2014, 10:43 PM

OVPR Hosts New Faculty Luncheon

The Office of the Vice President for Research hosted a Lunch & Learn Session to welcome new faculty members from across the campus to learn about how the Research Office can support the...

Posted: October 2, 2014, 2:29 PM

International Astrophysics Meeting Held at UMBC

About 18 members of an international astrophysics research collaboration met at the UMBC's South Campus Research and Technology Park and at the Visitor Center of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center...

Posted: September 28, 2014, 9:11 PM

Dr. Julia Ross Receives $3M Grant for Engineering Education

Dr. Julia Ross, now in her first semester as Dean of the UMBC College of Engineering and Information Technology, has been awarded a three million dollar grant from the National Science Foundation...

Posted: September 10, 2014, 12:24 AM