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Grants Awarded by the Hrabowski Fund for Innovation

The spring 2014 projects selected to receive funding from the Hrabowski Fund for Innovation are: IMPLEMENTATION AND RESEARCH GRANT Re-playing the Past: Building a Digital Game for the History...

Posted: October 7, 2014, 10:43 PM

Research at Facebook

Facebook now has a formal review process for pre-approving research on its users. Please contact the ORPC if there are any questions....

Posted: October 3, 2014, 9:00 AM

OVPR Hosts New Faculty Luncheon

The Office of the Vice President for Research hosted a Lunch & Learn Session to welcome new faculty members from across the campus to learn about how the Research Office can support the...

Posted: October 2, 2014, 2:29 PM

International Astrophysics Meeting Held at UMBC

About 18 members of an international astrophysics research collaboration met at the UMBC's South Campus Research and Technology Park and at the Visitor Center of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center...

Posted: September 28, 2014, 9:11 PM

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