Research News

Honoring a Mathematical Mind

Comedians have the Friars Club Roast, actors receive lifetime achievement Oscars, but in the world of math, a distinguished career is honored by a big gathering of very smart people....

Posted: November 16, 2006, 12:00 PM

New NASA Center is Stellar Leap for UMBC Astrophysics

Photo Caption: CRESST, a new NASA center at UMBC, will expand astrophysics research and education on black holes and other high-energy phenomena of the universe. The team of UMBC, the...

Posted: October 6, 2006, 12:00 PM

UMBC Computer Science Research in Wired Magazine

eBiquity Group's Research Part of Article on Spam Blogs Research on detecting "splogs" by UMBC Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Professors Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi and Tim Oates and...

Posted: September 5, 2006, 12:00 PM

Getting Ready for a Birthday Bash for Darwin

When UMBC history professor Sandra Herbert first saw the Charles Darwin Archives at Christ’s College, Cambridge as a graduate student, “It was like finding out Shakespeare had left unpublished...

Posted: August 14, 2006, 12:00 PM