Renetta Tull has worked with students, faculty, and staff across UMBC and the University System of Maryland to increase diversity in STEM disciplines for over a decade. At the end of March, Tull will begin a new role as vice chancellor for diversity, equity, and inclusion at UC Davis. Continue Reading UMBC recognizes Renetta Tull for transformative leadership advancing diversity in STEM Govind Rao and his students have developed a cardboard incubator to support premature babies in communities with limited resources, and in remote areas that do not have access to medical facilities. The inexpensive, easily constructed devices are poised to make a major impact. Continue Reading Class project to clinical trials: UMBC’s affordable infant incubator wins Global Health Research Award MTIP launched in fall 2018 to increase the number of paid technical internships in the state by providing financial assistance to businesses, as well as state and local agencies, to hire more interns. Continue Reading UMBC connects insightful students with growing companies through the Maryland Technology Internship Program The program climbed up four places this year, reaching #19 and joining other leading institutions on the 2019 Best Online Information Technology Programs list. Continue Reading U.S. News ranks UMBC’s online master’s in information systems among top 20 in the nation “It’s important for UMBC to have an impact in our local community. UMBC is a public university and we are part of the community,” says Fayo Ojo ‘20, computer science, who helped coordinate the event. “Hosting events like this shows that UMBC is committed to education beyond the courses offered here.” Continue Reading Hour of Code brings Baltimore 3rd and 4th graders to UMBC for fun intro to computing UMBC Chess competed in the 2018 Pan-American Intercollegiate Team Chess Championship, held in San Francisco, California, December 27 – 30. “The Pan-Am tournament was great for all of the players on the team,” says team member Ewa Harazinska ‘20, chemistry. “We take a great pride in representing UMBC in a national competition, and we were delighted to place in the top 10 chess teams.” Continue Reading UMBC places 10th at Pan-Am Team Chess Championship The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently released its latest Higher Education Research and Development (HERD) survey, including UMBC among the top 150 U.S. universities in federal research and development expenditures for fiscal year 2017. Continue Reading UMBC ranks among top 150 U.S. universities in federal research funding “It’s a great honor to be selected as an ACM fellow, since it is based on the recommendations of one’s peers and recognizes contributions to the field of computing,” says Finin. “I am especially honored since ACM fellows include so many pioneers of the field whose work and contributions I have studied and used over the past 40 years.” Continue Reading UMBC’s Tim Finin named an ACM fellow for advancements in artificial intelligence and semantic web technology Each year, thousands of UMBC students complete high-value internships, service-learning, research, and other applied learning experiences, and they have an impact. Surveys of UMBC graduates show that 90 percent head directly to a job, advanced degree, or both. Of those employed, a majority worked for or interned with their employer as a UMBC student. Continue Reading From visual effects to cybersecurity, UMBC grads share transformative career connections UMBC’s Office of the Vice President for Research presented awards to support the work of two dozen UMBC faculty examining topics from health disparities among people with diabetes to natural language processing. Continue Reading Faculty receive START and SURFF awards to pursue new research and creative work UMBC’s Idea Competition offers students from all fields an opportunity to present business ideas to a panel of expert judges and receive immediate feedback on moving from vision to reality. The university’s Alex. Brown Center for Entrepreneurship hosts this competition each fall. This year’s event featured ten project finalists. Student teams had just three minutes each to sell the judges and the crowd on their innovative product and business ideas. Vivian Armor, director of the Alex. Brown Center for Entrepreneurship, notes that the popular event now receives submissions from nearly every major across campus. Armor, herself an alumna of UMBC… Continue Reading Student entrepreneurs share fresh perspectives at UMBC’s 9th annual Idea Competition UMBC, Blackboard and VitalSource researchers found that by combining data from a wide range of sources, they were able to develop a model that was 70-98 percent accurate in predicting, by week four in the semester, which students would go on to earn a C or higher final grade. Continue Reading UMBC partners with Blackboard, VitalSource on research to support student success
UMBC recognizes Renetta Tull for transformative leadership advancing diversity in STEM
Class project to clinical trials: UMBC’s affordable infant incubator wins Global Health Research Award
UMBC connects insightful students with growing companies through the Maryland Technology Internship Program
U.S. News ranks UMBC’s online master’s in information systems among top 20 in the nation
Hour of Code brings Baltimore 3rd and 4th graders to UMBC for fun intro to computing
UMBC places 10th at Pan-Am Team Chess Championship
UMBC ranks among top 150 U.S. universities in federal research funding
UMBC’s Tim Finin named an ACM fellow for advancements in artificial intelligence and semantic web technology
From visual effects to cybersecurity, UMBC grads share transformative career connections
Faculty receive START and SURFF awards to pursue new research and creative work
Student entrepreneurs share fresh perspectives at UMBC’s 9th annual Idea Competition
UMBC partners with Blackboard, VitalSource on research to support student success
