Research News

Tom Cech, winner of the 1989 Nobel Prize for Chemistry and a longtime mentor to UMBC students, headlines the 12th annual "A Look Ahead" life sciences symposium from 3:30 to 7 p.m. on Wednesday,...

UMBC hosted more than 400 participants including undergraduate researchers and their mentors from across the East Coast on Sat., Oct. 11, for the 11th Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium. This...

UMBC Workshop to Teach Builders, Planners About ‘Green Concrete’ in Classroom, With Cement Truck Can a Wal-Mart parking lot be good for the Bay? The answer could be yes, if it’s made of...

UMBC Physics Professor Co-Authors Science Paper on How Aerosols Impact Cloud Formation, Climate Researchers at UMBC, NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center and the Weizmann Institute in...

UMBC's long-standing partnership with NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center to monitor global air quality is in the media spotlight today, as the world's attention focuses on the start of the 2008...

Timothy Stubbs, a scientist at UMBC and NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center, recently won funding for a project that sounds like equal parts Ray Bradbury and early David Bowie: studying how...

April 2, 2008 4:00-5:30 pm (reception to follow) Albin O. Kuhn Library 7th Floor Conference Room UMBC The J. Craig Venter Institute recently announced the creation of the world's first...

Photo Caption: Devin Hagerty on the flight deck of the U.S.S. Tarawa. He’s more accustomed to students in flip-flops instead of combat boots, but Associate Professor of Political Science Devin...

Photo Caption: Ecologist Erle Ellis has helped design a new way of mapping the Earth to include human impact. Editor’s Note: Since its publication, Ellis and Ramankutty’s research has received...

UMBC’s department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) will host environmental professionals from around the region on Nov. 7 at a conference on bio-solids, byproducts of water treatment...