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The Power of Images UMBC’s Imaging Research Center employs innovative strategies to help researchers across the disciplines share their vision. For 25 years, UMBC’s Imaging Research Center (IRC) has taken an entrepreneurial approach to leveraging new technologies and emerging media platforms to help researchers across the disciplines tell their stories using a wide range of visual media. In the late 1980s, when the IRC was founded, personal computers were only just emerging and mobile phones didn’t exist. Now, in 2013, the IRC’s state-of-the-art facilities enable research in 3D visualization, immersive technologies, interactive installations, feature-length films, social media, and mobile device… Continue Reading UMBC: The Power of Images

Home Team Retriever Fever and spirited fans lift UMBC Men’s Soccer to even greater heights. The sun rises and crews get to work cutting the plush Riviera Bermuda grass, repainting lines and repairing divots with green dyed sand. UMBC has the only Bermuda grass field in the America East Conference and it has to be pristine for the next game. Plus, with the growing success of UMBC soccer, there’s a good chance the field will see a lot more action throughout the fall. As the defending America East champion, UMBC men’s soccer team is familiar with the thrill of victory.… Continue Reading UMBC: Soccer Story

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Ready for Liftoff Cync Program Launches First Three Companies UMBC’s Research Park Corporation, known as bwtech@UMBC, and Northrop Grumman Corporation hosted a ceremony on September 27th for the first graduating class of the Northrop Grumman Cync Program: AccelerEyes, Five Directions and Oculis Labs. The event also marked the expansion of bwtech@UMBC’s Cyber Incubator program, a sign of the program’s success and the positive economic impact both initiatives are making on the region. The celebration, held at bwtech@UMBC, featured remarks by Northrop Grumman Corporate Vice President and President of Northrop Grumman Information Systems Kathy Warden, UMBC President Freeman Hrabowski, Baltimore County… Continue Reading UMBC: Ready for Liftoff

New Faces UMBC was recently named once again as a “Great College to Work For” in a national poll of employees conducted by the Chronicle of Higher Education, so it’s no surprise that the university is attracting stellar new talent to its faculty and academic leadership. We asked six newly appointed leaders and faculty at UMBC what attracted them to join our community. Scott E. Casper is UMBC’s new dean of the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (CAHSS). He comes to the university from the University of Nevada, Reno, where he was interim dean of the College of… Continue Reading UMBC: New Faces

Big Dreams Meet Big Opportunity. Daly City doesn’t get as hot as Baltimore, says Perry Ogwuche, a rising senior majoring in computer science and mathematics. This is the first time he has been to California, but he’s not there on vacation. Ogwuche and Randi Williams ’16, computer engineering, are spending their summer hard at work as members of the second class of CODE2040 fellows. CODE2040 is a fellowship program designed to help black and Latino students advance their careers as technology professionals. “Just taking CS [computer science] classes is not enough to build a career in Silicon Valley, New York… Continue Reading UMBC: Big Dreams Meet Big Opportunity

World-Class Students Five UMBC students have been awarded Fulbright grants, and two additional students have been named alternates for the prestigious program that takes students around the world to teach English or conduct original research. This ties last year’s number, which set a record for the most UMBC students to receive the award in one year. Four students were awarded English teaching assistantships: Yasmin Radbod ’13, Asian studies, for Nepal; Alexandra Mills ’13, gender and women’s studies, for Malaysia; Hannah Kurlansky ’13, English and media and communication studies, for Slovakia; and Andrew Holter ’12, English and history, for the Czech… Continue Reading UMBC: World-class students

Pumping Up Their Math Muscles Coach Sory Kante, moves quickly across the gym. One of his students working out needs help. But what’s stumped the student isn’t a 220 pound bench press or a complicated yoga move. It’s a calculus problem. Kante is a coach in UMBC’s newest type of gym: The Math Gym. One recent evening, dozens of students lined up for the gym, knowing that rather than hitting the treadmill, they’d be tackling a regimen of worksheets and quizzes specifically designed for them. The gym provides students with training in foundational skills, skills they’ve supposedly already learned, but… Continue Reading UMBC: Pumping Up Their Math Muscles

Living on a used planet The Anthropocene, “the Age of Man,” has been presented as a story of new and accelerating human impact on Earth’s ecology — a threat to both humanity and the planet — due to industrial civilization. But is this the true story of humankind and the biosphere? Erle Ellis, a UMBC researcher, and his colleagues say, “not really,” in a new paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), “Used Planet: A Global History.” Ellis, a professor of geography and environmental systems, and his colleagues say that the Anthropocene wasn’t born yesterday.… Continue Reading UMBC: Living on a used planet