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Strange Dance Partners
UMBC researchers are discovering building blocks of hand motions, aiming to improve physical therapy for humans and find better ways to program robots. They’re turning to a novel source material for these gestures: classical Indian dance.
UMBC Magazine
Fall 2025 Issue
ARTS+YOU
Magazine
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No animal alive today is ‘primitive’— why are so many still labeled that way?
UMBC biological sciences professor Kevin Omland explains how modern evolutionary biology and genomics show there is no hierarchy in evolution. All species alive today, from chimpanzees to bacteria, are cousins that each have…
Quick Posts
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UMBC physicist wins Amazon award to build AI-orchestrated scientific assistant
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UMBC’s Steven Caruso honored for leading authentic undergrad research in the classroom
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UMBC hosts 2025 IEEE Baltimore Technical Colloquium
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Chemical engineering professor Tyler Josephson chosen as Simons Foundation Pivot Fellow
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UMBC sophomore wins first place at NSBE fall regional conference technical research exhibition
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Hrabowski Fund for Innovation awardees continue to drive new approaches to teaching and learning
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Living the mission—UMBC recognized for 16 years as a ‘Great College to Work For’
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Following where curiosity leads them—COEIT celebrates student summer research
Community
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Chronic illness redirected Jaime Miller’s medical career—today she advocates for people with lupus, including herself
When Jaime Miller ’06 was in the final stages of her M.D/Ph.D., she did not expect her 15-year educational journey to be derailed by her own medical mystery. She certainly didn’t foresee finding peace and purpose through turning her chronic illness into a life of advocacy—but that’s exactly what’s happened.
Policy & Society
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After a lifetime of adapting her English to fit the occasion, Ivy Nguyen ’23 pursues further language education abroad with critical funding
Ivy Nguyen’s language chops and ability to teach, lead, and uplift multiple communities earned her two prestigious international opportunities: First, as an alternate for the Fulbright U.S. Student Program award to Taiwan to pursue a master’s in Chinese as a second language; and the second is admission to the National Normal University, a leading institution…
Science & Technology
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Electrical, biomedical, and computer science researchers team up to develop a ‘cybergut’
UMBC researchers led by Mehdi Kiani, a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, are at the frontiers of these changes. They recently teamed up with colleagues at New York Institute of Technology and Pennsylvania State University to develop a system that combines state-of-the-art, millimeter-sized medical implants, computational models, and machine learning…
Arts & Culture
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Laughing in the dark—UMBC’s Erin Hogan writes about Spain’s cinema after Franco
Asking Erin Hogan, professor of Spanish, to choose her favorite film is like asking her whether she prefers to study Iberian or Latin American films—both of which she researches and fell in love with as an undergrad. The real answer is that Hogan’s favorite film is whatever film she is studying at the time. For…
