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Prof. Daniel receives grant on anti-cancer nanoparticles

Marie-Christine Daniel, associate professor of chemistry, has received a three-year $390,000 NSF grant, starting August 1, to develop multifunctional nanoparticles, which have shown promising...

Posted: August 11, 2015, 11:38 AM

Ivan Erill publishes cover article, Journal of Bacteriology

Research maps genes of unique Betaproteobacteria

The latest issue of the Journal of Bacteriology features on its cover new research co-authored by Ivan Erill, biological sciences, that maps the genes involved in DNA repair of a recently...

Posted: August 11, 2015, 11:35 AM

Jane Turner Named Director, Ctr for Space Science Technology

Dr. Turner will also serve as Associate Director of CRESST

TO: UMBC Community FROM: Karl Steiner, Vice President for Research and William LaCourse, Dean, College of Natural and Mathematical Sciences We are delighted to announce the appointment of physics...

Posted: August 11, 2015, 11:32 AM

Updates to ORPC forms and documents

To continue our outreach and providing the most up to date templates for our investigators to use, please click on the ORPC Documents and Forms page to download the most current versions. These...

Posted: August 6, 2015, 12:05 PM

UMBC a partner in $12M NSF award for sustainability research

Cooperative agreement creates Urban Water Innovation Network

Note: This story has also been covered by the Daily Record, as detailed by this post in UMBC Insights. UMBC is a founding member of a new consortium of 14 U.S. academic institutions and key...

Posted: July 31, 2015, 3:15 PM

Technology Assists with Caregiving

On July 14, 2015,  a news article was posted in the USA Today newspaper, titled, “Whiz kids solve seniors’ problems with tech.” This article mentions that Millennials are helping the Baby Boomers...

Posted: July 30, 2015, 1:07 PM

Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBC)

The next IBC meeting is scheduled for September 16, 2015.  Investigators who want to have an application reviewed at this meeting should send a complete copy of the IBC paperwork to...

Posted: July 30, 2015, 11:32 AM

UMBC to Create Cybersecurity Educational Assessment Tools

Department of Defense will fund the project

Professors Alan Sherman (CSEE), Dhananjay Phatak (CSEE), and Linda Oliva (Education) have been awarded a research grant from the Department of Defense to create two educational cybersecurity...

Posted: July 24, 2015, 3:57 PM

Share Your Story. Share Your Photo. Celebrate LIFE!

Balance. A simple word, yet, a challenge to achieve. Intervention to help members in academia to achieve work-life balance started in the 1990’s by the College and University Work/Family...

Posted: July 8, 2015, 2:18 PM