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Sam Geleta ’25: A biochemist with dreams of taking his skills back home

May 13, 2025 / 8 minutes of reading
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Finding the harmony within art and science

May 13, 2025 / 6 minutes of reading
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Three UMBC juniors receive prestigious Goldwater Scholarships

May 9, 2025 / 5 minutes of reading
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Carla Guarraia, Ph.D. ’06, receives Presidential Award for Teaching

Feb 3, 2025 / 2 minutes of reading
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UMBC’s Ethics Bowl team earns spot in national championship two years in a row

Jan 13, 2025 / 3 minutes of reading
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Dec 9, 2024 / 4 minutes of reading
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FIRST faculty cohort brings new research areas to College of Natural and Mathematical Sciences

Dec 5, 2024 / 4 minutes of reading
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New study finds specific sensory neurons associated with parental care and reproductive behaviors in male cichlids 

Dec 4, 2024 / 5 minutes of reading
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Biologist Tom Cronin co-authors ‘Color in Nature,’ a beautiful and accessible tour of color’s role in our world

Nov 21, 2024 / 2 minutes of reading
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Alumna introduces horseshoe crabs to K-12 classrooms to raise these scientifically useful arthropods

Oct 28, 2024 / 4 minutes of reading
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Kaitlyn Sadtler ’11 named to TIME100 Next list for interdisciplinary biotech research

Oct 10, 2024 / 2 minutes of reading
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