News & Highlights

On April 5, 2023, UMBC held its Presidential Faculty and Staff Awards Ceremony, where "President Valerie Sheares Ashby honored community members who live our vision of redefining excellence in...

Earth scientists and researchers, the Landsat community, the NASA community, and countless others are remembering physicist, engineer, pioneer, and patent holder Virginia T. Norwood, the Mother of...

After a national search, UMBC has selected a new director of the Goddard Earth Sciences Technology and Research (GESTAR) Center II. In fall 2021, NASA awarded $72 million to establish the new...

On December 21, 2022, the UMBC community celebrated its Graduate School Class of 2022! Among the many graduates were three students whose advisors at UMBC are part of the Physics Department, JCET,...

Congratulations to Badrul Hasan, who recently graduated with an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering. Stephen Guimond, associate research professor of physics, was his advisor and Meilin Yu, associate...

Congratulations to Maurice Roots and Kylie Hoffman! They have been selected for NASA's Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology (FINNEST) award. Both are doctoral...

On the weekend of September 9-10, 2022, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences held its Induction Ceremony in Cambridge, MA for Fellows who were elected in 2021 and 2022. Anne Thompson...

Fred Huemmrich recently discussed the ground-based fieldwork that he, Petya Campbell, and colleagues conducted in Utqiagvik, Alaska, "the northernmost town in the U.S." Throughout his engaging...

Eos has published this year's AGU section award recipients and named lecturers. "Each year, AGU sections recognize outstanding work within their fields by granting awards and hosting numerous...

Dr. Steve Guimond, his graduate student Badrul Hasan (UMBC, Department of Mechanical Engineering) and collaborators have published a fundamental paper on the computational physics of the hurricane...