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Contact: Dinah Winnick Communications Manager: Social Sciences (410) 455-8117 dwinnick@umbc.edu twitter.com/UMBCSocSci As we approach the November election, Maryland residents are turning...

Contact: Anthony Lane Communications manager Science, technology and environment (410) 455-5793 alane@umbc.edu UMBC’s Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry has been awarded a $200,000...

A composite of NASA satellite imagery, prepared by Ana I. Prados of the Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology (JCET) [http://jcet.umbc.edu/about/] for the U.S. Air Quality Smog Blog...

Contact: Anthony Lane Communications Manager (410) 455-5793 alane@umbc.edu A new analysis shows that humans had transformed most of earth’s land-based ecosystems by the early part of the...

Contact: Chelsea Haddaway Communications Manager (410) 455-6380 chaddaway@gmail.com Susan McDonough, assistant professor of history, has been awarded a Fellowship at the Newberry Library by...

Contact: Anthony Lane Communications Manager (410) 455-5793 alane@umbc.edu University System of Maryland (USM) scientists have developed an environmentally sustainable and cost-efficient...

Dawn Biehler, assistant professor of geography and environmental systems, was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend for the summer of 2010. As a beneficiary of the award,...

Three UMBC professors have been chosen as summer faculty fellows by the Dresher Center for the Humanities. The fellowships support professors who are in the early stages of research. “We’re...

Robert Provine, professor of psychology, was quoted in media across the globe recently regarding a new study on the evolution of laughter in apes. Provine, an expert on and an international...

The Folger Theatre's critically acclaimed production of Tom Stoppard's "Arcadia" has connections to UMBC experts in mathematics and the humanities. Michelle Osherow, assistant professor of...