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UMBC Professor's Company Profiled in Baltimore Examiner

Fluorometrix, a company co-founded by Govind Rao, a professor of biochemical engineering at UMBC, was profiled in the Dec. 4 Baltimore Examiner. Fluorometrix uses technology developed by Rao to...

Posted: December 5, 2006, 12:00 PM

UMBC Astronomer Helps Discover Possible New Black Hole

Previously Unknown Black Hole’s Speed, Power Surprises NASA, European Space Agency Team Illustration Caption: An artist's impression of a possible new black hole ripping gas and matter...

Posted: November 27, 2006, 12:00 PM

Honoring a Mathematical Mind

Comedians have the Friars Club Roast, actors receive lifetime achievement Oscars, but in the world of math, a distinguished career is honored by a big gathering of very smart people....

Posted: November 16, 2006, 12:00 PM

New NASA Center is Stellar Leap for UMBC Astrophysics

Photo Caption: CRESST, a new NASA center at UMBC, will expand astrophysics research and education on black holes and other high-energy phenomena of the universe. The team of UMBC, the...

Posted: October 6, 2006, 12:00 PM