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Mehdi Kiani (Brad Ziegler/UMBC) Personalized and precise treatments will improve patients’ quality of life in a fast-approaching future driven by AI, wearable tech, and other innovations. UMBC...

‘Man’ is at the very top looking down at all other forms of life in Ernst Haeckel’s drawing. Ernst Haeckel/Photos.com via Getty Images Plus Written by Kevin Omland, professor of biological...

When Jaime Miller ’06, biochemistry, was in the final stages of her M.D/Ph.D., she did not expect her 15-year educational journey to be derailed by her own medical mystery. She certainly didn’t...

Meet Manpreet Suri ’14, M.S. ’15, information systems, an entrepreneur, digital solutions problem solver, McNair Scholar, and a member of the Alumni Association Board of Directors. Suri found a...

On the fourth floor of UMBC’s Meyerhoff Chemistry Building, where students are hard at work exploring the intricacies of RNA molecules that may hold the key to combating viral diseases, a unique...

On a cloudy Saturday in January, UMBC buzzed with the energy of over 1,200 high school students from across the Mid-Atlantic region. For the third consecutive year, UMBC’s College of Natural and...

Dear UMBC Community,   With the cold and wintry conditions that delayed the start of in-person classes by a week, it seems strange to refer to this as the spring semester! I hope that you all...

Fabio Anza, an assistant professor in UMBC’s Department of Physics, Quantum Science Institute and Cybersecurity Institute, has won an Amazon Research Award to develop Physics Co-Pilot—a scientific...

Dear Campus Community, I am writing to update you regarding four recent changes to federal immigration and visa policies. Each of these changes is summarized in bold, with details underneath,...

More than 20 years ago, Padmanabhan “Padhu” Seshaiyer, Ph.D. ’98, applied mathematics, observed researchers stretching aneurysm tissue samples in a neighboring lab, generating a dataset to...