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UMBC celebrates its 50th Anniversary this weekend! To honor this amazing achievement, the Department of Biological Sciences is teaming up with Mathematics/Statistics, Chemistry, Physics, and the...

CNMS will be hosting a PerkinElmer Technology Workshope on Thursday, September 22nd. Breakfast & lunch will be provided courtesy of PerkinElmer. See the attached flyer for more information....

Please join the Department of Biological Sciences in welcoming two new members of our faculty: Dr. Javier Rivera Guzman and Dr. Jewel Daniel.  Dr. Javier Rivera Guzman will be our new...

Karan Odom was the lead author on a paper published in 2014 about the widespread incidence of female song among songbirds. She was interviewed about a recent study in Science exploring why female...

Former faculty & staff remember the years they spent at UMBC.

From September 24-28, UMBC was represented at the 2015 iGEM Jamboree held in Boston and the Retriever team earned a bronze medal for their work on remediating copper from the environment.  iGEM...

The August 11, 2015 issue of the Journal of Bacteriology cover features new research by Neus Sanchez-Alberola, Susana Campoy, David Emerson, Jordi Barbe and Ivan Erill that maps the genes involved...

Credits her attention to detail and working smart from what she learned in the laboratory!  

Evan G. Cameron, Ph.D., a former graduate student in the Department of Biological Sciences at UMBC, was recently awarded a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) for...

Drs. Robinson & Hoffman will present at the next Specific Aims Club, Wednesday, July 22nd, 3:00 p.m., BS 461.