UMBC professor Curtis Menyuk applies his expertise in optics to a host of questions at the frontiers of time-keeping science. Continue Reading How to count time: Professor Curtis Menyuk brings his expertise in optics to an age-old problem Molly Mollica, an assistant professor in mechanical engineering who joined UMBC in August 2023, has been selected for an American Heart Association (AHA) Career Development Award, which will provide more than $200,000 to fund her research for the next three years. Mollica studies the biomechanics of blood platelets, which play an essential role in healthy blood clotting, but can also contribute to the formation of blood clots that cause heart attacks and strokes. Bleeding and clotting have been shown to vary between males and females, but the reasons are not well understood. In her AHA-funded research, Mollica will investigate how… Continue Reading Molly Mollica wins American Heart Association Career Development Award On the first weekend of April, hundreds of chemical engineering students from across the Mid-Atlantic converged on the UMBC campus for the 2024 Mid-Atlantic Student Regional Conference of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE). Continue Reading Capping years of rising success, UMBC chemical engineering club shines as student conference hosts An Dang ’24, chemical engineering, quickly became involved in activities in the department of chemical, biochemical, and environmental engineering and this year helped the student chapter of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) pull together a major student conference for the first time. Continue Reading An Dang ’24: A chemical engineer who helped pull off a big student conference Lee Blaney will develop new ways to remove substances dubbed “forever chemicals” from water, with funding from the Department of Defence’s Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program. Continue Reading Lee Blaney awarded funding to develop new ways to remove “forever chemicals” from water This April 22, as the campus community celebrated Earth Day, the feel of spring’s natural reawakening was in the air. Birds chirped from newly leafed trees and students strolled in the bright sunshine. But the pleasant day belied a concerning trend: In Maryland and beyond, the balance of Earth’s life-supporting systems is shifting, driven in large part by the heat-trapping greenhouse gasses we humans send into the atmosphere. The Earth is getting hotter; weather patterns are changing; and ecosystems are under stress. “Climate change is pressing us to adopt a more Earth-friendly lifestyle, to develop renewable energy,” says Özgür Çapraz,… Continue Reading From solar energy harvesting to advanced batteries: Cohort of new engineering faculty bolster UMBC’s commitment to Earth-friendly research On April 19, more than 150 people gathered for the inaugural College of Engineering and Information Technology (COEIT) Research Day. Continue Reading COEIT convenes inaugural research day to encourage interdisciplinary collaborations UMBC is joining a industry-university cooperative research center aiming to improve how we diagnose and treat people with conditions such as neurological disorders, brain injury, mental illness, limb loss and paralysis. Continue Reading UMBC joins BRAIN Center to advance innovations in neurotechnologies Over the weekend of April 6-7, the UMBC student chapter of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) will host the 2024 Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference on campus. Continue Reading Hundreds of East Coast chemical engineering students to gather at UMBC for regional conference Over two weeks at the end of January, six UMBC faculty woke up early to deliver lectures and lead workshops with students more than 9,000 miles away, in the small Asian nation of Brunei, located on the island of Borneo. The online talks were part of the Diversity in Cybersecurity, Brunei conference, organized jointly by Edah Hasnal, an advocate for gender diversity in the tech sector in Brunei, and Carolyn Seaman, director of the Center for Women in Technology (CWIT) at UMBC. Continue Reading UMBC faculty share knowledge and passion during Diversity in Cybersecurity, Brunei event A short film brings viewers into the lab where Carlos Romero-Talamás, alongside colleagues and students from UMBC and the University of Maryland, College Park, are questing to bring the energy of the stars down to Earth. Continue Reading UMBC fusion researchers get TV spotlight at world’s largest physics meeting The positive environmental and health impacts of work led by Upal Ghosh, professor of chemical, biochemical, and environmental engineering at UMBC, was recently highlighted by the National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS). The agency showcased a low-cost technology that Ghosh and his colleagues developed to clean waterways contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), a group of likely carcinogenic chemicals that were used in insulation, coolants, and electrical equipment for decades before being banned in the U.S. in 1979. The chemicals are stable and persist in the environment, often accumulating in fish that live in contaminated waterways and posing a risk… Continue Reading National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences highlight Professor Upal Ghosh’s work cleaning contaminated waterways
How to count time: Professor Curtis Menyuk brings his expertise in optics to an age-old problem
Molly Mollica wins American Heart Association Career Development Award
Capping years of rising success, UMBC chemical engineering club shines as student conference hosts
An Dang ’24: A chemical engineer who helped pull off a big student conference
Lee Blaney awarded funding to develop new ways to remove “forever chemicals” from water
From solar energy harvesting to advanced batteries: Cohort of new engineering faculty bolster UMBC’s commitment to Earth-friendly research
COEIT convenes inaugural research day to encourage interdisciplinary collaborations
UMBC joins BRAIN Center to advance innovations in neurotechnologies
Hundreds of East Coast chemical engineering students to gather at UMBC for regional conference
UMBC faculty share knowledge and passion during Diversity in Cybersecurity, Brunei event
UMBC fusion researchers get TV spotlight at world’s largest physics meeting
National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences highlight Professor Upal Ghosh’s work cleaning contaminated waterways
