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How to Win a Blind Taste Test (With Science!)

With Josh Wilhide ’10 M.S., Mass Spectrometry Facility Manager On a hot summer day, there’s nothing quite like the perky fizz of a just-opened soda to keep you cool and caffeinated. As...

Posted: October 6, 2012, 9:20 PM

Discovery – Fall 2012

EXPLORING THE BORDER When human beings have to be at a certain place at a certain time, they have lots of handy aids to do so: alarm clocks and watches, maps and GPS systems. Michelle...

Posted: October 6, 2012, 9:17 PM

At Play – Fall 2012

PUZZLE POWER Marie desJardins, a professor of computer science at UMBC, specializes in research on artificial intelligence. But at the 2012 American Crossword Puzzle Tournament in March, her...

Posted: October 6, 2012, 9:14 PM

UMBC Brings Entrepreneurship to the Classroom

UMBC is known for innovation in education. Now, a couple of faculty members are taking that one step further and are teaching students to become entrepreneurs. Baltimore Business Journal...

Posted: October 5, 2012, 7:59 PM

Alumni Essay – Battles Can Build Bridges

Proposition: The natural sciences will forever be at odds with the humanities and social sciences. Steven Gimbel ’90, philosophy and physics, argues in the negative. As chair of the philosophy...

Posted: October 5, 2012, 7:38 PM

Gray New World

Students in the Erickson School’s Project 2061 class have high expectations for technology and its power to meet human needs. Working across disciplines, they’ve created new possibilities for the...

Posted: October 5, 2012, 7:29 PM

Ryan Bloom, English, in the American Prospect

“For major league baseball fans in Washington, it’s been 79 years of waiting for another postseason appearance. The last time they made it to the playoffs, Herbert Hoover was just leaving the...

Posted: October 5, 2012, 7:26 PM