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Thyme to grow—UMBC’s Little Seed Library starts spreading its roots

Jun 22, 2026 • By Randianne Leyshon '09

UMBC's new Little Seed Library, co-sponsored by Retriever Essentials and the Office of Sustainability, offers free seeds to the campus community. Located near UMBC Police, this initiative promotes sustainable gardening, food education, and community engagement through a take-and-donate seed exchange system.

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Electrical, biomedical, and computer science researchers team up to develop a ‘cybergut’

Feb 9, 2026

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Sisters in science: How one UMBC lab kindled a family tradition of discovery

Feb 5, 2026

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‘Why do I need to know this?’ Padhu Seshaiyer, Ph.D. ’98, on why math matters

Jan 22, 2026

A hazy image of a spiral galaxy known as NGC 3627. Here, the galaxy appears pitched at an oblique angle, tilted from our upper left down to our lower right. Much of its face is angled toward us, making its spiral arms, composed of red and purple dots, easily identifiable. Several bright white dots ringed with neon purple speckle the galaxy. At the galaxy’s core, where the spiral arms converge, a large white and purple glow identified by Chandra provides evidence of a supermassive black hole.

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Katherine Carver is helping astronomers analyze James Webb Space Telescope data

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