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UMBC College of Natural and Mathematical Sciences
Dr. Pengwang Zhai wins the UMBC College of Natural and Mathematical Sciences Early Career Faculty Excellence Award. This award recognizes excellence and promise in scholarship and teaching by a...
April 16, 2018
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2:47 PM
Co Lab: Help tell the story of UMBC & Climate Action!
Apply today to the UMBC CoLab Program to help tell the about UMBC's efforts to address climate change through video production! Create an effective narrative about UMBC’s campus, communities,...
March 28, 2018
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3:16 PM
JCET GRA Presenting Poster at GRC
Today's JCET Twitter spotlight is on Lipi Mukherjee (Physics, Pengwang Zhai lab). She will be presenting a poster at the GRC on her research about atmospheric physics....
March 27, 2018
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11:58 AM
Recognized As Among Best in the Nation
UMBC graduate programs are among the best nationwide, according to the 2019 U.S. News Best Graduate Schools rankings, released today. The rankings recognize a dozen UMBC graduate programs...
March 22, 2018
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Unexpected Effect of African Wildfires on Climate
Clouds play a prominent role in moderating Earth’s climate, but their role is still poorly understood. Generally, clouds cool the Earth by reflecting incoming sunlight back out into space....
March 5, 2018
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Christopher Shuman (JCET) recently quoted in TIME
Aerial Photos of Antarctica Reveal the Devastating Toll of Climate Change TIME joined NASA for a series of research flights over the west Antarctic peninsula
January 21, 2018
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11:58 AM
AMS Award Winner
AMS recognizes outstanding individuals and organizations of the weather, water, and climate community through its Awards and Honors program. Join us in congratulating Dr. Ali Tokay a 2018...
January 16, 2018
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10:56 AM
Multi-Institution Initiative
On November 16, Brian Carroll and Christiana Sasser, mechanical engineering, rose at 3:45 a.m. to drive to Lancaster, PA. After a briefing, they, a student from Millersville University, a pilot,...
January 16, 2018
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10:45 AM
With applications from farming to forest conservation
Two researchers at UMBC’s Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology (JCET) and colleagues have found that instrumentation on the International Space Station (ISS) can collect data measuring the...
November 6, 2017
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8:58 AM
Congratulations to a successful defense of PhD research
Dan Miller/Physics: Title: Satellite Simulator Studies of the Space of Cloud Heterogeneity on Passive Cloud Remote Sensing Retrievals. Reed Espinosa/Physics: Title: Comprehensive airborne in...
October 18, 2017
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