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Hilltop Wins Award to Develop Multi-Payer Analytic Tool

UMBC’s Hilltop Institute, with its partners ServBeyond Solutions and A-G Associates, has just been awarded a $2 million contract from the Maryland Health Services Cost Review Commission (HSCRC) to...

Posted: March 3, 2020, 1:05 PM

Coming soon! Kuali Protocols for IRB

The ORPC team is excited to share updates about our ongoing efforts with  Kuali Protocols for IRB. As we’ve been announcing, UMBC is continuing to  transition its research related processes into...

Posted: February 28, 2020, 1:01 PM

Hidden by a pleasant scent

The health consequences of flavor in e-cigarettes

By Weihong Lin, Professor of Biological Sciences, and Rakaia Kenney, Research Assistant, UMBC Millions of Americans are vaping, and some are getting sick. Since June 2019, 2,711 have been...

Posted: February 9, 2020, 2:39 PM

Using Electronic Signatures to Document Informed Consent

When recruiting participants for a human subjects use research protocol, one important aspect of the research process is discussing the purposes, procedures, risks, benefits, etc. of the study...

Posted: February 6, 2020, 4:36 PM

Carnegie honors UMBC as a community-engaged university

This story was written by Catalina Sofia Dansberger Duque and first appeared on news.umbc.edu The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has honored UMBC with its distinguished...

Posted: February 3, 2020, 10:59 AM

Working with international partners on research projects

Planning an international partner on a research project? The Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP), UMBC Financial Services and Office of General Counsel created a guidance document to assist in...

Posted: January 31, 2020, 10:17 AM