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UMBC Hosts Cybersecurity Discussion at National Press Club

Faculty, alumni, corporate partners on industry challenges

This story was first published  here and was written by Megan Hanks. Cybersecurity is regularly a headliner in the news, especially when personal information stored online has been compromised,...

Posted: February 4, 2018, 3:32 PM

UMBC scientist opens a “new chapter for biochemistry”

Receives $1.5 million NIH grant to study sugar metabolism

This story was first published  here and was written by Sarah Hansen. UMBC’s Songon An is on a quest to explain how enzymes direct sugar metabolism through research with implications for...

Posted: February 4, 2018, 3:20 PM

U.S. Department of Energy 2018 Fusion Energy Sciences

Postdoctoral Research Program

Now accepting applications for the U.S. Department of Energy 2018 Fusion Energy Sciences Postdoctoral Research Program   The purpose of the Fusion Energy Sciences Postdoctoral Research Program...

Posted: January 14, 2018, 9:18 PM

COI IS READY TO USE in Kuali

UMBC implemented the KualiResearch Conflict of Interest (COI) module to document the disclosure processes for Public Health Service (PHS) and Non-PHS submitted proposals that are governed by the...

Posted: January 12, 2018, 6:24 PM

Kuali Live in 2018!

What is Kuali?

Kuali is a new software system aiming to significantly improve the process of proposal submission and several other critical extramural related activities for our faculty and department...

Posted: January 10, 2018, 10:16 AM

Revisions to the Common Rule (Update)

The Federal Policy for the Protection of Human Subjects

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced on January 17, 2018 an Interim Final Rule (IFR) that delays by six months the effective date and general compliance date of the revisions...

Posted: January 5, 2018, 1:31 PM

UMBC upgrades High Performance Computing Facility

NSF grant expands possibilities for data-intensive research

This story was first published  here and was written by Megan Hanks. The National Science Foundation recently awarded UMBC a Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) award totaling more than...

Posted: November 17, 2017, 9:06 AM

Nominations Sought for Five New UMBC Faculty Awards

UMBC recognizes excellence in teaching and research through the Presidential Teaching & Research Professor Award, which are recognizing outstanding contributions of our tenured faculty members...

Posted: November 10, 2017, 3:40 PM

20th Undergraduate Research Symposium

shines light on students’ diverse contributions to science

This story was first published  here and was written by Sarah Hansen. UMBC’s Undergraduate Research Symposium for the Chemical and Biological Sciences has become a destination for young...

Posted: November 10, 2017, 9:31 AM

UMBC scientists measure plant productivity from space

applications from farming to forest conservation

This story was first published  here and was written by Sarah Hansen. Two researchers at UMBC’s Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology (JCET) and colleagues have found that instrumentation...

Posted: November 10, 2017, 9:26 AM