“UMBC’s community-engaged activity and the people who make this activity possible give me great hope,” shares Michele Wolff, director of the Shriver Center. “Now more than ever, our community and civic engagement can help change the current narrative and move us towards a more inclusive, equitable, and just society.” Continue Reading UMBC receives 2020 Engaged Campus Award
Quantum computers have the potential to revolutionize communications, cybersecurity, and more. But as Sebastian Deffner notes, “Even quantum computing has shortcomings.” Deffner and Nathan Myers will explore ways to work around some of quantum computing’s limits with a new NSF grant. And in the process, they just might redefine the fundamental laws of physics. Continue Reading Quantum computing, but even faster? UMBC researchers explore the possibilities with new NSF grant
Daniel Wines and Can Ataca are “trying to stay five or so years ahead of experimentalists,” Wines says. Their computational research lays the groundwork for developing 2D materials for particular applications from solar cells to wearable electronics. Continue Reading UMBC team reveals possibilities of new one-atom-thick materials
New research led by graduate student Adam Leah Harvey may put to bed a long-term controversy about where jets coming from black holes release their energy. Continue Reading UMBC researchers identify where giant jets from black holes discharge their energy
Researchers across UMBC are using unique, interdisciplinary approaches to explore global environmental challenges Continue Reading Exploring Every Angle: Climate Research at UMBC
As scientists study how the Arctic affects and is affected by climate change, the work of Kurtz and others will fill in a crucial knowledge gap. Continue Reading On Thin Ice
“Now we have so much raw data. So how do we analyze it? How do we make it useful for the research community?” asks Jianwu Wang. As data archives balloon, the capabilities of artificial intelligence are rapidly increasing. There is also an urgent need to understand Earth’s systems as they shift due to climate change. All of these factors drove Wang and his collaborators to find ways to help researchers access satellite data much faster. Continue Reading NASA awards UMBC team $1.4M to develop AI that improves how computers process climate data from satellites
“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
“I love to help people succeed, so for me, if others have put time into my career and my future, I feel that it’s only right to reciprocate that love to other students,” says Cherie Tebah ’20. She and other UMBC students have found ways to support their classmates while still pursuing their own degrees. Continue Reading Support comes full circle: When students become mentors
Olivia Norman ’20 has taken the goals of the CNMS Scholars program to heart. “Being a CNMS Scholar has made me interested in not just doing research, but making sure that where I do research and how I do research is reflective of the scholars program itself,” she shares. Continue Reading Graduating CNMS Scholars carry on a commitment to support women in STEM
The Higher Education Research and Development (HERD) survey aggregates federal research and development expenditures for fiscal year 2018. The survey data combines total funding from all federal agencies and also provides information on research funding from non-federal and non-governmental sources. Continue Reading UMBC once again ranks among the top 150 universities in federal research funding
Physicist Matt Pelton and chemist Marie-Christine Daniel are both engaged in photonics research, which is “the idea of using light—photons—to do information processing instead of using electrons like you do in electronics,” explains Pelton. The work poses challenges, but if Daniel, Pelton, and their students succeed, they’ll be setting the stage for a revolution in computing. Continue Reading UMBC’s Pelton and Daniel are developing light-driven chips to enable super-fast computing
