Curtis Menyuk, professor of computer science and electrical engineering at UMBC, has won the 2024 SPIE G.G. Stokes Award in Optical Polarization. Continue Reading Professor Curtis Menyuk honored for pioneering work that helped transform global telecommunications U.S. News and World Report has recognized UMBC’s online master’s degree in information systems as #34 on their national list of 2024 Best Online Master’s in Information Technology Programs. Continue Reading U.S. News ranks UMBC’s online master’s in information systems among best in the nation Timmie Topoleski, professor of mechanical engineering at UMBC, has received the 2024 Society for Biomaterials Award for Service, which honors individuals who have devoted significant time and energy to advancing the goals of the professional society. Continue Reading Mechanical engineering professor Timmie Topoleski honored for his service to the Society for Biomaterials The Center for Research in Emergent Manufacturing (CREM) is launching a major new project with the U.S. Army and other partners this year. UMBC has received an initial amount of more than $3 million to fund the first year of the project, which will investigate ways to digitize the army’s supply chain. Continue Reading UMBC manufacturing research center gets boost from new partnership with U.S. Army UMBC has joined dozens of other founding institutions who have pledged to work together to ensure sustained resources and opportunities in tech fields for women of color. Continue Reading UMBC joins national effort to improve pathways for women of color in tech UMBC News talked with recent NSF CAREER award winner Chenchen Liu about her research, the future of AI, and the need for responsible AI use. Continue Reading Building next-gen AI chips at UMBC: A Q&A with NSF CAREER award winner Chenchen Liu Starting this May, a series of wildfires in Eastern Canada sent enormous smoke clouds wafting into the U.S., triggering air quality warnings in cities from the Midwest to the Northeast. As a resident of the Baltimore area—which was blanketed with particularly bad smoke in both early and late June—UMBC Professor Chris Hennigan looked at the haze with dismay. But as an environmental engineer who studies air pollution, he had an additional thought: “We were looking at the air quality forecasts, and we thought ‘We have to gather data,’” he says. Continue Reading As summer wildfire smoke choked Baltimore, UMBC air pollution researchers leapt into action She didn’t exactly experience a Sir Isaac Newton-like epiphany after being conked by a falling apple, but Priya Narayanan, Ph.D. ’08, mechanical engineering, spent a lot of her time at UMBC interacting with the iconic red fruit. For her Ph.D. thesis, Narayanan worked with the U.S. Department of Agriculture to study whether a simple device made of a long, inclined track could reliably orient apples. The ultimate goal was to automate visual inspection of the fruit—using cameras to spot blemishes—and the cameras required the same view of the apple each time. Narayanan spent thousands of hours performing experiments with rolling… Continue Reading From apples to army robots, curiosity and commitment define Priya Narayanan’s career UMBC’s Vandana Janeja was recently awarded a nearly $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) that will leverage high-performance computing to solve real-world problems and make it accessible to students and researchers of all backgrounds,” Continue Reading UMBC’s Vandana Janeja aims to boost high-performance computing know-how to tackle environmental science challenges with a $1 million NSF grant This week UMBC was named as one of four institutions chosen to work together on a National Science Foundation-funded project to establish a new science educational center at the Arecibo Observatory site in Puerto Rico. NSF will contribute more than $5 million over five years to establish the multidisciplinary center, called the Arecibo Center for Culturally Relevant and Inclusive Science Education, Computational Skills, and Community Engagement (Arecibo C3). Continue Reading UMBC joins collaboration to create new STEM education, research center at Arecibo Observatory site in Puerto Rico Mentorship guides the growth of students studying fungi in UMBC professor Mark Marten’s lab. Continue Reading Students discover the beauty of mold and mentorship in Mark Marten’s UMBC lab Richard Forno, assistant director of UMBC’s Center for Cybersecurity and a principal lecturer in the department of computer science and electrical engineering, has been appointed an honorary international professor in the School of Science and Engineering at the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo (UAEH), one of Mexico’s oldest universities. Continue Reading Cybersecurity expert Richard Forno appointed an honorary international professor
Professor Curtis Menyuk honored for pioneering work that helped transform global telecommunications
U.S. News ranks UMBC’s online master’s in information systems among best in the nation
Mechanical engineering professor Timmie Topoleski honored for his service to the Society for Biomaterials
UMBC manufacturing research center gets boost from new partnership with U.S. Army
UMBC joins national effort to improve pathways for women of color in tech
Building next-gen AI chips at UMBC: A Q&A with NSF CAREER award winner Chenchen Liu
As summer wildfire smoke choked Baltimore, UMBC air pollution researchers leapt into action
From apples to army robots, curiosity and commitment define Priya Narayanan’s career
UMBC’s Vandana Janeja aims to boost high-performance computing know-how to tackle environmental science challenges with a $1 million NSF grant
UMBC joins collaboration to create new STEM education, research center at Arecibo Observatory site in Puerto Rico
Students discover the beauty of mold and mentorship in Mark Marten’s UMBC lab
Cybersecurity expert Richard Forno appointed an honorary international professor
