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When Bill LaCourse became dean of UMBC’s College of Natural and Mathematical Sciences (CNMS) in 2012, he had three top priorities in mind: innovate undergraduate science education to boost...

As we age, our immune systems don’t work as well as they did when we were younger. That phenomenon is called immunosenescence, and it’s not exclusive to humans. The decline of the immune system...

UMBC’s Hua Lu, professor of biological sciences, and colleagues have found new genetic links between a plant’s circadian rhythm (essentially, an internal clock) and its ability to fend off...

Dr. Michael Summers is the Robert E. Meyerhoff Chair for Excellence in ​Research and Mentoring​; a Distinguished University Professor​; and an Investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical...

Thirty years ago, Baltimore philanthropist Robert E. Meyerhoff came to then-UMBC vice provost Freeman Hrabowski with the seed of an idea: to create a program that would enable all students,...

We all experience levels of humor in our lives. We may giggle at memes on social media, snarf quietly to ourselves when we spy someone make a goof at work, or fall on the floor laughing at the...

By Stian Rice, visiting assistant research professor, Center for Urban Environmental Research and Education, UMBC Prison inmates are picking fruits and vegetables at a rate not seen since Jim...

By Richard Forno, assistant director, UMBC Center for Cybersecurity, director, cybersecurity graduate program The people of Baltimore are beginning their fifth week under an electronic siege...

By Sarah Stellwagen, postdoctoral researcher in biological sciences, UMBC What do all of the over 45,000 described spider species on Earth have in common? Each makes at least one type of silk....

Ivan Erill, Associate Professor, Biological Sciences, UMBC Imagine a world where your odds of surviving minor surgery were one to three. A world in which a visit to the dentist could spell...