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Feb. 25, 2015 Re-cap: Developing a Career Portfolio

Notes from the Career-Life Balance Seminar

Hi everyone!  I received emails from several people, who have indicated that they could not attend the Feb. 25, 2015 Career-Life Balance Seminar on Developing a Career Portfolio. Therefore, I...

Posted: February 28, 2015, 2:34 PM

$50k awarded to CAST team for preemie respiration monitor

by Sarah Hansen Right: The winners and judges after the NCC-PDI conference and competition. Govind Rao, UMBC Professor and Director of the Center for Advanced Sensor Technology (CAST), was the...

Posted: February 26, 2015, 7:03 PM

NPA Conference Agenda, March 13-15, UMB's campus, downtown

We have waivers for UMBC's postdocs who want to attend.

UMBC will be attending the National Postdoctoral Association's Annual Conference in March. It will be held on the campus of the University of Maryland Baltimore (UMB), downtown, Baltimore. Here is...

Posted: February 26, 2015, 11:43 AM

Yujie Wang receives NASA Peer Award

Atmospheric correction algorithm aids air quality research

By Sarah Hansen Yujie Wang, Associate Research Scientist at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD and part of the Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology (JCET) between UMBC and...

Posted: February 25, 2015, 8:56 AM

Export Control Impact on Education

The Department of the Treasury (OFAC) has published regulations recently concerning the need to obtain a "general license" for academic exchanges between Iranian and US universities, as well as...

Posted: February 19, 2015, 10:32 AM

UMBC-UMB Partnership Awards a Catalyst for Collaboration

UMBC and UMB celebrate research partnerships with symposium and innovation grants. [story re-posted from www.umbc.edu] Celebrating the rapid growth of our collaborative research programs,...

Posted: February 17, 2015, 1:48 PM

UMBC-UMB Partnership Symposium celebrates collaboration

New grants awarded and previous recipients report progress

Inaugural UMBC-UMB Research and Innovation Partnership Symposium celebrates cross-campus collaboration By Sarah Hansen Right: UMB President Jay Perman (left), UMBC President Freeman Hrabowski...

Posted: February 12, 2015, 9:33 PM

The Science of Attraction

Biologist Tamra Mendelson explains how sexual selection plays a major role in the evolution of vibrant features, from stripes to tail feathers. Male cardinals are red. Male peacocks have...

Posted: February 11, 2015, 10:08 PM