Kizzmekia Corbett’s team was the first to demonstrate a vaccine that successfully stopped viral replication in both the lungs and nose. Continue Reading Alumna Leads Team to Breakthrough Coronavirus Vaccine Results The UMBC midshipmen “are an impressive group of individuals who will go on to serve as excellent Navy and Marine Corps officers,” Meghan Grenier says. “I hope what they have learned from me and the NROTC program will … prepare them for the challenges of leadership in our Navy.” Continue Reading UMBC’s Meghan Grenier receives top NROTC teaching honor from the U.S. Navy Now one of the high school participants, Kimani Reed, is starting at UMBC this fall. “The warm welcome I felt when I walked through the doors on the first day already made UMBC feel like home,” she says. Continue Reading UMBC develops future STEM teachers, researchers through pilot program pairing high school and college students “One of the reasons I love science is that we took this animal with an exceptional visual system, and it’s become even more complex,” Megan Porter says. “Every level that we look at adds another layer of complexity to how the visual system is working.” Continue Reading Mantis shrimp eyes get even wilder: UMBC team finds twice the expected number of light-detecting proteins The improved models of disease spread Kathleen Hoffman and colleagues are working toward will help governments and non-profits get “the biggest bang for [their] buck in terms of resource allocation,” Kathleen Hoffman says. Where these groups should focus their time, energy, and money is “the kind of question this kind of work can usually answer.” Continue Reading UMBC mathematician Kathleen Hoffman receives new grants to improve HIV modeling Faculty members are setting the bar high for themselves this fall, and they have demonstrated it by showing up in droves for a variety of programs offered through UMBC’s Faculty Development Center (FDC), Division of Information Technology (DoIT), and the colleges and academic departments. Since May, more than half of all faculty have participated in training activities associated with online teaching, not including the faculty members serving as mentors and instructors for these trainings. Continue Reading UMBC faculty on a mission to prepare robust, high-quality online classes for fall semester “I’ve been working in Maryland for almost 30 years, and we’ve been developing a lot of these technologies,” Yonathan Zohar says. “Our mission is research, education, and economic development, and we have been working to create connections between academia and industry to fulfill that mission.” Continue Reading Groundbreaking fish research by UMBC’s Yonathan Zohar spawns partnership with AquaCon on $1 billion Maryland aquaculture project With a history of amplifying and prioritizing Black voices in other under-represented fields, this alumna turned her efforts toward supporting birders, naturalists, and explorers. Continue Reading Change Agent Behind #BlackBirdersWeek “Studying this planet, and hopefully others like it, can give us insight into how our own solar system formed,” says Tom Barclay. Continue Reading UMBC’s Tom Barclay and NASA team discover Neptune-sized planet orbiting young, nearby star “Quantitatively describing visual patterns is a big challenge, and there’s not one easy way to do that,” Sam Hulse says. By integrating their skills in math and biology, he and colleagues figured out a method to do it for the first time. The new results pave the way for a great deal of new research. Continue Reading How the darter got its stripes: New UMBC research expands on sexual selection theory to explain complicated animal patterns “I love to help people succeed, so for me, if others have put time into my career and my future, I feel that it’s only right to reciprocate that love to other students,” says Cherie Tebah ’20. She and other UMBC students have found ways to support their classmates while still pursuing their own degrees. Continue Reading Support comes full circle: When students become mentors Jeremy Rubin had an unusual personal experience with the medical field early in life, and it sent him down a path to a research career. The experience “made me think, how can I use my interest in statistics to help the field of precision medicine? How can we tailor diagnoses and treatments to the individual?” Continue Reading Where math and medicine meet: Jeremy Rubin is one of UMBC’s nine new NSF Graduate Research Fellows
Alumna Leads Team to Breakthrough Coronavirus Vaccine Results
UMBC’s Meghan Grenier receives top NROTC teaching honor from the U.S. Navy
UMBC develops future STEM teachers, researchers through pilot program pairing high school and college students
Mantis shrimp eyes get even wilder: UMBC team finds twice the expected number of light-detecting proteins
UMBC mathematician Kathleen Hoffman receives new grants to improve HIV modeling
UMBC faculty on a mission to prepare robust, high-quality online classes for fall semester
Groundbreaking fish research by UMBC’s Yonathan Zohar spawns partnership with AquaCon on $1 billion Maryland aquaculture project
Change Agent Behind #BlackBirdersWeek
UMBC’s Tom Barclay and NASA team discover Neptune-sized planet orbiting young, nearby star
How the darter got its stripes: New UMBC research expands on sexual selection theory to explain complicated animal patterns
Support comes full circle: When students become mentors
Where math and medicine meet: Jeremy Rubin is one of UMBC’s nine new NSF Graduate Research Fellows
