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Howard Hughes Medical Institute Awards $2.2 Million to HHMI Scholars Program at UMBC
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) has awarded a $2.2 million teaching grant to the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) to further develop the HHMI Scholars Program, a science...
Posted: June 12, 2006, 12:00 PM
UMBC Scientists Spot the Greatest of Great Balls of Fire
A research effort led by the University of Maryland, Baltimore County has found a comet-like ball of gas over a billion times the mass of the sun hurling through a distant galaxy cluster over 500...
Posted: June 12, 2006, 12:00 PM
UMBC, Johns Hopkins, Join Princeton in Multi-Million NSF Engineering Research Center
Advanced Research in Mid-Infrared Spectrum Could Yield Sensor Breakthroughs for Medicine, Environment, Military, Homeland Security UMBC and The Johns Hopkins University are part of a newly...
Posted: May 2, 2006, 12:00 PM
Grasmick to Be Honored for Fighting Tech Gender Gap at UMBC’s Computer Mania Day
Fashion Designer Cynthia Rowley to Link High-Tech, High Fashion For 100’s of Middle School Girls Saturday State Superintendent of Schools Dr. Nancy Grasmick will be honored for her...
Posted: May 1, 2006, 12:00 PM
JCET/GEST Director, Students Track Chinese Dust Storms, Celebrate Satellite Launch
When someone tells Ray Hoff, professor of physics and director of two of UMBC’s NASA-Goddard related collaborative research centers, that he and his graduate students have their heads in the...
Posted: April 28, 2006, 12:00 PM
Provine Essay Selected Among Best American Science Writing
“Yawning,” an essay for the Nov./Dec. 2005 issue of American Scientist magazine written by Robert Provine, professor of psychology and an internationally renowned expert on the science of laughter...
Posted: April 28, 2006, 12:00 PM
COPT to Develop Second Building for bwtech@UMBC Research Park
110,000 Square-Foot Building to be Multi-Tenant Facility UMBC's on-campus research and technology park, bwtech@UMBC, and Corporate Office Properties Trust (COPT) announced today that COPT...
Posted: April 24, 2006, 12:00 PM
Drs. Hrabowski, Summers Share Success Strategies for Producing Minority Scientists, Engineers
'Preparing Minority Scientists, Engineers' Appears in Science Magazine President Freeman Hrabowski and Dr. Michael Summers of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), have published...
Posted: April 3, 2006, 12:00 PM
Gigabytes of Glamour: Fashion Designer Cynthia Rowley to Help UMBC Make Tech Savvy Girls in Style
Award-Winning Designer to Lead Hundreds of Middle School Girls, Parents, in Day of Hands-on, High-Tech Fun: Computer Mania Day, May 6 If there’s one sure way to get more girls...
Posted: March 28, 2006, 12:00 PM
U.S. Geological Survey to Move MD-DE-DC Water Science Center to UMBC
COPT to Develop Tech Park’s 3rd Building; Research Collaboration Drives Move of 60 Experts on Region’s Water, Environment The University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) announced today...
Posted: March 13, 2006, 12:00 PM
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