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Invitation to Apply to Be a Student Member of the IRB

Appointment will be for the 2020-2021 Academic Year

The Institutional Review Board (IRB), the formally designated UMBC committee to approve, monitor, and review research involving humans is currently accepting applications from students to join. ...

Posted: September 19, 2020, 8:35 AM

The October 18, 2020 “Go Live” date is fast approaching!

Correction from the last announcement

What this means for you    Remember that paper forms and requests will soon be a thing of the past. Key time frame dates:    Starting October 18, 2020 at 8:01 am,...

Posted: September 19, 2020, 8:14 AM

UMBC’s Daniel Lobo receives $1.9 million NIH grant

Will explore genetic control of development and regeneration

This story was written by Sarah Hansen and first appeared on news.umbc.edu Salamanders regenerate their tails. Sea stars regenerate their arms. Most species of planaria, a type of flatworm,...

Posted: September 9, 2020, 5:24 PM

UMBC's Taka Yamashita receives $1.4 million grant

Adult literacy's impact on community college STEM Education

This story was written by Catalina Sofia Dansberger Duque and first appeared on news.umbc.edu UMBC’s Taka Yamashita has been awarded a $1.4 million grant from the U.S. Department of...

Posted: September 9, 2020, 3:37 PM

Kuali IRB for new protocols

Stay tuned to our myUMBC page for further details

We are pleased to announce that all configuration has been completed to meet the requirements of the live kickoff of Kuali Protocols for IRB, our cloud-based protocol management and administration...

Posted: September 7, 2020, 11:33 AM

UMBC’s Tulay Adali receives prestigious Humboldt Award

Research Award for advanced data analysis at Paderborn Univ.

This story was written by Megan Hanks and first appeared on news.umbc.edu UMBC’s Tulay Adali, professor of computer science and electrical engineering (CSEE) and distinguished university...

Posted: September 5, 2020, 11:45 AM

UMBC study reveals gender bias in bird song research

This story was written by Sarah Hansen and first appeared on news.umbc.edu A revolutionary group of scientists has been rethinking for two decades how we understand bird song, with women...

Posted: September 5, 2020, 11:41 AM

UMBC STEM BUILD students conduct and present viral research

in reimagined summer program

This story was written by Sarah Hansen and first appeared on news.umbc.edu The 19 members of UMBC’s STEM BUILD Cohort 5 and their instructors had been looking forward to a summer wet lab...

Posted: September 5, 2020, 11:38 AM

New PostKuali Protocols for IRB drop in sessions

The ORPC has set up times for investigators to review the steps and any other IRB protocol creation questions as UMBC begins it's transformation to the Kuali cloud based protocol management...

Posted: September 1, 2020, 12:15 PM