UMBC’s Meyerhoff Scholars program continues to illustrate the power of increasing diversity in STEM fields. UMBC learned a lot of valuable lessons from that model when it launched the Cyber Scholars program in 2013. As a result, UMBC has stepped up as a model for cyber workforce development.

In this week’s Industry Roundup we’ll take a look at how tackling the digital world is one of the top strategic technology trends of 2018.  We’ll also take a peek into drones at Walmart, a new bar code technology, study of carbon cycles on plankton, and how robots are creating faster blood tests and results.

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