The Russian attacks on the 2016 U.S. presidential election and the country’s continuing election-related hacking have happened across all three dimensions of cyberspace – physical, informational and cognitive. Continue Reading Weaponized information seeks a new target in cyberspace: Users’ minds
A team of researchers from UMBC is developing a new, low-cost anti-malarial drug to help tackle a disease that causes over 200 million infections and 400,000 deaths annually, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Continue Reading UMBC research team awarded grant to innovate anti-malarial drug production
In piles on a table in the chilly back room of UMBC’s Special Collections office lie a science fiction lover’s dream: decades-worth of fanzines in all their hand-drawn, mimeographed glory. Compiled by amateur editors, they span topics from space travel to colonization to 1970s feminism. Fittingly, the students poring over the zines as part of UMBC’s new month-long Interdisciplinary CoLab research program are just as different as the titles they explore. One studies biochemistry, another computer science. The third has interests in communications and gender and women’s studies, and was thrilled to find connections in the sci-fi zine Janus. As… Continue Reading New CoLab Program Brings Interdisciplinary Approach to Summer Research
The new research initiative focused on cybersecurity for critical national infrastructures, including information technology, public transit, and financial services. Continue Reading UMBC launches infrastructure-focused cybersecurity research collaboration with Japanese and UK partners
Graduates of the UMBC College of Engineering and Information Technology and those who now work in the IT field gathered for a networking happy hour this week at Jailbreak Brewing Company in Laurel. Highlights included a meet and greet with Dr. Keith Bowman, the new dean of the college, as well as plenty of food, drinks and connections with other IT&E Retriever alumni, faculty and staff. The event was sponsored by Raytheon. Learn more about upcoming alumni events here. Photos by Marlayna Demond ’11 for UMBC.
UMBC’s Office of the Provost has launched a university-wide initiative to celebrate faculty who go above and beyond as educators, scholars, and leaders on campus and in their fields. This initiative strives to highlight tenure-track junior faculty, lecturers, and adjunct, research, and clinical faculty whose work is essential to UMBC’s success. Continue Reading New UMBC initiative celebrates exceptional faculty dedication to teaching and scholarship
With 25 years of hindsight, “Jurassic Park” marks a pivotal point in the history of visual effects in film. Continue Reading Jurassic Park’ made a dinosaur-sized leap forward in computer-generated animation on screen, 25 years ago
UMBC’s Kelechi Nwanaga ’21 finished fourth in javelin at NCAA Track and Field Championships. Continue Reading Retrievers go the distance at NCAA Track and Field Championships
“Confronting the barriers to health equity compels us to look across disciplines and toward collaborations among social scientists, scientists and engineers, and humanists and artists,” said Dean Scott Casper at the event. Continue Reading UMBC health justice research forum focuses on the value of community voices
“We know from research that studying abroad is among the most positive and impactful experiences a student can undertake while in college. Learning to function in an unfamiliar environment, developing an understanding of another culture, and acquiring proficiency in a foreign language all contribute greatly toward academic and career development,” says David Di Maria, associate vice provost for international education. Continue Reading Three UMBC students access unique study abroad opportunities as Boren and Gilman Scholars
Thousands of Retriever graduates, family, and friends streamed into the new UMBC Event Center last week to celebrate graduate and undergraduate spring commencement. Continue Reading UMBC’s spring 2018 commencement honors student achievements, community values
A student in UMBC’s College of Engineering and Information Technology, and a recent UMBC alumna have been selected to participate in this year’s international Nobel laureate forums, which connect top student engineers and scientists from universities around the globe with the world’s leading scientific researchers. Continue Reading UMBC student and alumna selected to attend Nobel laureate meetings in Germany
