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New Area the Size of Maryland Starts to Melt Each Year; Long-term Satellite Data Showed First-Ever High Altitude Melting in 2002 Some sobering findings on the extent of Greenland's...

Anne Spence, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, received the Outstanding Volunteer of the Year award at the 2007 FIRST Chesapeake Regional, held March 15-17, 2007 at the United States...

‘Beauty Myth’ Author to Discuss “The Changemakers: Ethical Leadership & Real Power” at UMBC Humanities Forum on March 14 Best –selling author Naomi Wolf will give a lecture on ethics and...

Andrew Sears, chair and professor of UMBC's Information Systems department, was recently an in-studio guest for Maryland Public Television's "Business Connection." Sears discussed how the...

GEST Center's Assaf Anyamba Helps to Slow Deadly Fever in Kenya Photo Caption: UMBC/NASA scientist Assaf Anyamba. Update: Feb. 9, 2007. Read more about Dr. Anyamba's work in the...

Stephen Auvil, of UMBC's Office of Technology Development and the ACTiVATE Program, is invited to speak at the FemStart Conference in Stuttgart, Germany from February 14-15. The ACTiVATE Program...

Initiative Seeks to Develop Entrepreneurs Outside of Business, Engineering Schools UMBC has been awarded a $2 million grant to build entrepreneurship programs across the campus, joining a...

Fluorometrix, a company co-founded by Govind Rao, a professor of biochemical engineering at UMBC, was profiled in the Dec. 4 Baltimore Examiner. Fluorometrix uses technology developed by Rao to...

Previously Unknown Black Hole’s Speed, Power Surprises NASA, European Space Agency Team Illustration Caption: An artist's impression of a possible new black hole ripping gas and matter...

UMBC announced today that Erickson Retirement Communities will construct a $20 million building at the university’s on-campus research and technology park bwtech@UMBC. Erickson will move its...