Research News

by Sierra Francis April 15, 2014 In this modern age, technological tools and methods of research are constantly evolving. Staying on the cutting-edge of research often requires being...

April 2, 2014 Each year, the UMBC community comes together to celebrate the accomplishments of our outstanding faculty and staff.

March 24, 2014 Dr. Willie May, Principal Deputy & Associate Director for Laboratory Programs and Dr. Laura Locascio, Director the Material Measurement Laboratory at the National Institute of...

March 12, 2014 The National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) has selected Professor Marie desJardins as one of four awardees of the 2014 NCWIT Undergraduate Research...

March 11, 2014 New research in Nature Communications reveals female bird song is widespread, challenging Darwin’s conclusions. Led by UMBC Ph.D. student Karan Odom in the lab of Kevin Omland,...

March 4, 2014 Education Professor of Practice Joan Shin has received the 2013 Ben Warren International House Trust Prize for her book Teaching Young Learners English (National Geographic...

March 4, 2014 Anne Brodsky, psychology professor and associate dean of the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, has received the 2014 SCRA Award for Distinguished Contributions to...

February 24, 2014 The National Science Foundation (NSF) announced on December 11, 2013 that Gymama Slaughter, an assistant professor of computer science and electrical engineering (CSEE), received...

February 26, 2014 CSEE professor Fow-Sen Choa has been selected as a Fellow of SPIE, the International Society for Optics and Photonics. SPIE Fellows are honored for their technical achievements...

February 12, 2014 Faculty members at Maryland universities conduct important research that may provide relief for spinal cord injury victims, or develop new targeted methods to deliver drugs...