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Presenters/speakers for research administrators meeting

The Society of Research Administrators International / Chesapeake Chapter is soliciting presenters and session proposal ideas for the 2015 Chapter meeting to be held in Baltimore, Maryland at the...

Posted: September 25, 2014, 3:24 PM

Updates to the OPRC website

Over the next several weeks, ORPC will be transitioning compliance information from our myUMBC to the research.umbc.edu/ website. All the details and information investigators require for research...

Posted: September 24, 2014, 3:26 PM

New procedures for biosafety/recombinant DNA research

UMBC will soon be convening an Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBC) to ensure our research continues to conform to the NIH Guidelines associated with plant, pathogen, transgenic animal and...

Posted: September 17, 2014, 2:52 PM

Dr. Julia Ross Receives $3M Grant for Engineering Education

Dr. Julia Ross, now in her first semester as Dean of the UMBC College of Engineering and Information Technology, has been awarded a three million dollar grant from the National Science Foundation...

Posted: September 10, 2014, 12:24 AM

Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare Online Seminar

Please join us on September 18, 2014 at 1:00 pm in viewing an hour-long webinar from OLAW - The Research Animal Coordinator: A Tool to Foster a Culture of Compliance. Details and registration...

Posted: September 8, 2014, 10:00 AM

Linda Dusman and Eric Smallwood Awarded TEDCO MII Grant

Linda Dusman, Music, and Eric Smallwood, Visual Arts, in partnership with the School of Music at the University of Maryland, College Park, have received a $150,000 Maryland Innovation Initiative...

Posted: September 4, 2014, 1:14 AM

On the Road to Plutopia

November 15, 2014 A few years ago, historian Kate Brown spent several weeks in a tiny cottage in an obscure corner of Russia’s Ural Mountains. She was studying the history of Ozersk, a secret...

Posted: August 25, 2014, 12:45 PM