The three-year endowed position will allow Bieberich to offer workshops and other activities to encourage entrepreneurial approaches to expand research support and commercialization opportunities for faculty. Continue Reading Chuck Bieberich, biomarker tech innovator, named Bearman Foundation Chair in Entrepreneurship
Helena Mentis’ award will allow her to examine the ways that gesture-based tools can allow remote surgeons to share expert knowledge with surgeons in the operating room. Continue Reading Helena Mentis receives NSF CAREER Award for advancements in surgical telemedicine
In an interview with the Baltimore Business Journal, Yoni Zohar talks about how his work can help protect the bluefin tuna populations which are quickly decreasing. One day, he hopes to grow the tuna to weigh about 50 pounds. Continue Reading Yoni Zohar explains how his lab became the first to farm bluefin tuna in land-based aquaculture
The unique physiology of the mantis shrimp’s eyes enables this animal to see parts of the ultraviolet spectrum that are not visible to humans. Continue Reading Tom Cronin decodes the unique eye of charismatic mantis shrimp in National Geographic
Published on the eve of UMBC’s 50th anniversary, this feature article digs into the history of the university, founded in 1966 with a diverse faculty and student body and as an academic powerhouse with high standards from the start. Continue Reading University Business magazine chronicles UMBC’s growth as a leading research university
Nearly 250 health professionals and researchers will gather in Ellicott City this month to mark a major milestone: ten years of dramatically reducing tobacco use across the state. In the decade since Carlo DiClemente established MDQuit as a resource hub for doctors and health officials, the Maryland’s smoking rate has declined from 31 percent to under 17 percent. Continue Reading UMBC’s MDQuit researchers celebrate ten years of progress toward a smoke-free Maryland
“We are not just 22 departments and 13 programs and centers. We are one college, and we are working together to make each other’s worlds better as well as the world around us,” explained CAHSS Dean Scott Casper in the first “State of the College” address. Continue Reading College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences reflects on tremendous growth and establishes vision for future success
The Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) connected to NOAA’s Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) is NASA’s new tool to provide scientists with a unique perspective of the Earth’s clouds, land surfaces, and aerosols. EPIC captures measurements in visible, ultraviolet, and near-infrared wavelengths, and collects color images of the Earth every two hours. Researchers use these photos to track identifying features as the planet rotates. Jay Herman, senior research scientist at UMBC’s Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology (JCET) and the EPIC instrument lead investigator at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, explains that ultraviolet and near-infrared wavelengths allow him to watch… Continue Reading New NASA camera gives scientists an EPIC perspective of Earth, UMBC researcher explains
UMBC’s Imaging Research Center (IRC) has debuted the 3D Scanning Room, featuring new software that allows 3D models to be created by combining dozens of 2D photographs. A ribbon-cutting event and brief remarks from President Freeman Hrabowski and Vice President of Research Karl Steiner were held on Tuesday, December 8. The 3D Scanning Room features 90 digital single-lens reflex (DSLR) cameras that are set up in a circular formation around a space where people or objects are positioned for 2D photographs. The cameras take simultaneous photos, looking for features like textures and edges that reflect light. Once the photos are captured, they are… Continue Reading 3D Scanning Room opens with a 90-camera flash
UMBC’s inaugural Innovators Luncheon, held November 30, 2015, celebrated faculty innovators from across the university who are forging new paths in their fields. Sponsored by the Office of the Vice President for Research, Office of Technology Development (OTD), Office of Institutional Advancement (OIA), and bwtech@UMBC, the event acknowledged accomplishments of UMBC Technology Catalyst Fund (TCF) and Maryland Innovation Initiative (MII) awardees. In addition to recognizing the TCF and MII awardees, five UMBC faculty were presented with awards for outstanding initiatives in disclosing their inventions. Christopher Geddes, professor of chemistry and biochemistry and director of the Institute of Fluorescence (IOF); Fow-Sen… Continue Reading Inaugural Inventors’ Luncheon honors UMBC faculty innovators across disciplines
Times Higher Education (THE) has named UMBC one of world’s top universities for the fourth consecutive year. THE World University Rankings “judge world class universities across all of their core missions—teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook,” utilizing metrics in 13 categories. The 2015-16 list of top 800 global universities includes 147 in the United States and highlights three in Maryland: UMBC, Johns Hopkins University, and the University of Maryland, College Park. Universities in the United Kingdom, Germany, the Netherlands, and Switzerland were also well represented in the 2015-16 list. In addition to the World University Rankings, UMBC has appeared in Times Higher Education‘s “100… Continue Reading Times Higher Education recognizes UMBC as a top world university in 2015-16 rankings
Every so often, we’ll chat with an alum about what they do and how they got there. Today we’re talking with Nilusha Jayasinghe ’13, biological sciences and Spanish, M.S. ’15 applied molecular biology, about her work as a researcher at the National Institutes of Health. Name: Nilusha Jayasinghe Job Title: Intramural Research Fellow, National Institutes of Health Major/Minor: Undergrad: Biology and Spanish, Grad: Applied Molecular Biology (AMB) Grad Year: Undergrad: 2013, Grad: 2015 Tell me a little about the research project you’re involved in at NIH. I study the genetics of blood and lymph vessel development and differentiation during vertebrate development using the model… Continue Reading Career Q&A: Nilusha Jayasinghe ’13, biological sciences and Spanish, M.S. ’15 applied molecular biology
