Research News

UMBC/NASA Study Shows Increasing Snowmelt in Greenland

New Area the Size of Maryland Starts to Melt Each Year; Long-term Satellite Data Showed First-Ever High Altitude Melting in 2002 Some sobering findings on the extent of Greenland's...

Posted: May 29, 2007, 12:00 PM

Best-Selling Author Naomi Wolf to Speak at UMBC

‘Beauty Myth’ Author to Discuss “The Changemakers: Ethical Leadership & Real Power” at UMBC Humanities Forum on March 14 Best –selling author Naomi Wolf will give a lecture on ethics and...

Posted: March 12, 2007, 12:00 PM

Weather Forecasts Help Fight Disease Outbreak

GEST Center's Assaf Anyamba Helps to Slow Deadly Fever in Kenya Photo Caption: UMBC/NASA scientist Assaf Anyamba. Update: Feb. 9, 2007. Read more about Dr. Anyamba's work in the...

Posted: January 26, 2007, 12:00 PM

UMBC Professor's Company Profiled in Baltimore Examiner

Fluorometrix, a company co-founded by Govind Rao, a professor of biochemical engineering at UMBC, was profiled in the Dec. 4 Baltimore Examiner. Fluorometrix uses technology developed by Rao to...

Posted: December 5, 2006, 12:00 PM

UMBC Astronomer Helps Discover Possible New Black Hole

Previously Unknown Black Hole’s Speed, Power Surprises NASA, European Space Agency Team Illustration Caption: An artist's impression of a possible new black hole ripping gas and matter...

Posted: November 27, 2006, 12:00 PM