Studying Moon Dust to Aid Astronauts and Robots
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...
Posted: April 14, 2008, 12:00 PM
UMBC Presents "Ethical Implications of Synthetic Life" Symposium
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...
Posted: March 7, 2008, 12:00 PM
On Board for a Mission of Mercy
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...
Posted: January 9, 2008, 12:00 PM
Putting People in the Map: Ecologists Remap Biosphere to Include Humans
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...
Posted: November 26, 2007, 12:00 PM
Civil and Environmental Engineering to Host Biosolids Conference
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...
Posted: November 2, 2007, 12:00 PM
IBM Gift to Bring 'Orchestra' of Powerful Computer Chips to UMBC
Photo Caption: According to UMBC computer scientists Milt Halem (left) and Yelena Yesha (right), the Multicore Computing Center will give UMBC researchers access to some of the world's most...
Posted: August 23, 2007, 12:00 PM
Michael Summers, UMBC/HHMI, Discusses STEM Education in Science Magazine
Michael Summers, Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator and professor of chemistry and biochemistry, was part of a recent panel discussion sponsored by Science magazine on improving science,...
Posted: July 11, 2007, 12:00 PM
Two UMBC Students Receive Prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
Columbia Natives Patricia Ordóñez, Jason Reid to Pursue Ph.D.s at UMBC, MIT Note to Readers: Click on photos below to view high-resolution version. Patricia Ordóñez, a UMBC...
Posted: June 25, 2007, 12:00 PM
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
Anne Spence, Mechanical Engineering, Honored by FIRST LEGO League of Maryland
Anne Spence, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, received the Outstanding Volunteer of the Year award at the 2007 FIRST Chesapeake Regional, held March 15-17, 2007 at the United States...
Posted: March 21, 2007, 12:00 PM
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