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UMBC receives grant to study energy use in Baltimore homes

NSF grant supports automated analysis in low-income areas

UMBC Professors Nirmalya Roy (IS), Nilanjan Banerjee (CSEE), and Ryan Robucci (CSEE) have been awarded a $500K National Science Foundation Cyber-physical Systems Grant to develop sensing systems...

Posted: October 6, 2015, 8:27 AM

ORPC Research Education and Training Access

You Asked. We Listened!

In an effort to improve access to all of ORPC’s research related training, we have made changes to the registration information in our training pages that will make the process of signing up for...

Posted: October 1, 2015, 10:57 AM

Christopher Hennigan receives NSF CAREER Award

Christopher Hennigan, assistant professor of chemical, biochemical and environmental engineering, has received a highly prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award of over a half...

Posted: September 18, 2015, 10:25 AM

Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC)

The next IACUC meeting is scheduled for October 14, 2015.  Investigators who want to have an application reviewed at this meeting should send a complete copy of the IACUC paperwork to...

Posted: September 11, 2015, 3:16 PM

Human Subjects Research Protections

Proposal to Improve Rules Protecting Human Research Subjects

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) issued on September 2, 2015 as a draft of the final rule intended to modernize, strengthen, and...

Posted: September 11, 2015, 2:56 PM

Clarification for the post

Export Control Update - Use of Cloud Services

The September 2, 2015 "Important" notice about the use of cloud services such as Box or Google may have led some to conclude both services are inherently and/or equally insecure under the...

Posted: September 5, 2015, 2:23 PM

Export Control Update - Use of Cloud Services

The ORPC and DoIT recommend that UMBC personnel not collaborate or communicate any potential export controlled, restricted, or sensitive information, data via cloud service products. Details...

Posted: September 2, 2015, 8:56 AM