The Geography and Environmental Systems Seminar presents Robert Hirsch, research hydrologist, U.S. Geological Service, who will present “Streamflow, Floods and Climate Change.” The lecture will be held on Wednesday, November 2, at noon, in Sondheim Hall, Room 001. For more information, contact Dawn Biehler at dbiehler@umbc.edu or ext. 5-2095.
Dan Shechtman, a former visiting professor at UMBC, won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry last week. Shlomo Carmi, then dean of the College of Engineering, recruited Shechtman in 1997, and the materials scientist remained a visiting professor at UMBC until 2005. During that time Shechtman conducted some of the key research that led to the Nobel Prize at the National Institutes of Standards and Technology, in nearby Gaithersburg, Md.
In early July, the Greater Baltimore Tech Council launched a search for companies with the most unique, innovative and creative technologies. A panel of judges reviewed the applications and compiled a list of the top 10. Two Catonsville-based companies made the list, including one located at bwtech@UMBC. Now you can vote for those two Catonsville companies, Via Place and Rogue Networks, to be named the Greater Baltimore Tech Council’s “Hottest Tech in Town.” Via Place develops mobile GPS apps and is an affiliate company of chamber member Mindgrub. Rogue Networks develops cybersecurity solutions in the Cync incubator at bwtech@UMBC. Voting… Continue Reading Two Catonsville Companies in the Running for “Hottest Tech in Town”
One of UMBC’s top revenue-generating technologies has just been licensed for the third time, this time to GE Healthcare. This demonstrates that the University’s strong efforts to commercialize its research are paying off. “UMBC benefits from technology transfer not just in measurable dollars from licensing revenue but also by building relationships with companies,” said Wendy Martin, director of technology development at UMBC. The technology allows companies to use an external sensor to measure a range of environmental factors including pH, oxygen and carbon dioxide levels in cell culture. The sensor peels and sticks to the inside of the plastic or… Continue Reading UMBC Research Proves Valuable to Large Companies
A team of UMBC researchers has received a four-year, $1.8 million grant from the National Science Foundation to develop an online infrastructure intended to vastly improve how scientists study land change. The new toolbox aims to allow researchers to rapidly share, compare and synthesize local studies and combine them with global datasets of human and environmental variables. A planned social-networking component would also allow researchers to more easily find one another and collaborate. The simplest description: “A globally relevant Google scholar,” says Erle C. Ellis, the principal investigator on the grant and associate professor of geography and environmental systems at… Continue Reading UMBC Researchers Receive $1.8 Million Grant to Build a “Toolbox for Global Thinking”
The Geography and Environmental Systems Seminar presents Michael Studinger, project scientist for Operation IceBridge, Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology (JCET), UMBC and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. The seminar, “NASA’s Operation IceBridge: Using Instrumented Aircraft to Bridge the Observational Gap Between ICESat and ICESate-2 Laser Altimeter Measurements,” will be held Wednesday, September 7, at noon in Sondheim Hall Room 001. For more information, contact Dawn Biehler at dbiehler@umbc.edu or ext. 5-2095.
Jianwu Wang, assistant professor of information systems, is the most recent UMBC faculty member to receive a prestigious CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Wang’s NSF grant totals more than $500,000 over five years. It will support his work to develop more efficient and reproducible causality analytics for use in climate science. Cause and effect is a fundamental research question in many disciplines and there are some unique challenges in discovering cause-effect relationships from climate data. Wang explains that Earth changes so rapidly that climate scientists studying it must continuously capture a huge volume of data. For the… Continue Reading UMBC’s Jianwu Wang receives NSF CAREER Award to help climate scientists discover causal relationships from massive amounts of data
