“I would like to thank the HARP team as a whole, because HARP is really the result of the perseverance of the team over many years,” said Vanderlei Martins, as he accepted the award on behalf of the team, which has included many students. Continue Reading Small satellite, big ambitions: UMBC’s HARP named SmallSat Mission of the Year
Earlier this summer, the University System of Maryland (USM) COVID-19 Task Force invited members of the USM community to develop mobile apps that would help Maryland residents respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. Among the six winning teams just announced are two groups from UMBC. One team developed an app to support the healthcare of people with COVID-19. The other focused on connecting residents with dining options and restaurant policies as they change during the pandemic. Continue Reading Two UMBC student teams win USM COVID-19 app challenge
During the COVID-19 pandemic, internet access has become more critical, with people relying on it to work, learn, and connect with family and friends. However, the internet is not equally accessible to all people. UMBC’s Foad Hamidi recently received a collaborative Rapid Response Research (RAPID) grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to increase high-speed wireless internet access to communities in Baltimore. Continue Reading UMBC’s Foad Hamidi receives NSF RAPID grant to expand free, secure internet access in Baltimore during COVID-19 and beyond
Dipanjan Pan has received two new grants from the National Institutes of Health to support research poised to improve COVID-19 testing. Continue Reading UMBC’s Dipanjan Pan receives two NIH grants to continue rapid COVID-19 testing research
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
UMBC researchers will collaborate with the Chicago-based MxD to develop a curriculum and online platform for manufacturing professionals to increase their cybersecurity skills and to protect manufacturing plants from cyber breaches. “The program will accelerate training of practitioners in the manufacturing industry in cybersecurity. It will also expand UMBC’s impact on cybersecurity education in the manufacturing sector,” says Nilanjan Banerjee. Continue Reading UMBC collaborates with MxD to develop cybersecurity curriculum for workers in manufacturing
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
“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
Ellicott City, a town about five miles from UMBC, suffered devastating flooding in 2016 and 2018. These events left residents and officials wondering how technology could help predict future severe weather events, potentially saving lives and property. In response, UMBC’s Nirmalya Roy received funding from NSF to develop a rapid flood warning system for Ellicott City, combining sensor data and social media monitoring. Continue Reading Flood Bot: UMBC researchers expand flood warning work in Ellicott City
“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
A research team from UMBC and the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) has received a Rapid Response Research (RAPID) grant from the National Science Foundation to detect COVID-19 infections earlier through computing. Aryya Gangopadhyay, professor of information systems at UMBC and PI on the grant, explains that this work will use machine learning to improve the speed and accuracy of COVID-19 diagnosis, helping to limit spread of the disease. Continue Reading UMBC researchers receive NSF RAPID grant to speed COVID-19 detection through a deep neural network
