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Item Lee Blaney Awarded Funding To Develop New Ways To Remove “forever Chemicals” From Water - UMBC(UMBC News, 2024-05-16) Meyers, Catherine; Demond, MarlaynaLee Blaney will develop new ways to remove substances dubbed “forever chemicals” from water, with funding from the Department of Defence’s Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program.Item The people behind the papers – Jason Ko and Daniel Lobo(The Company of Biologists Ltd, 2024-05-09) Ko, Jason; Lobo, DanielPlanarians grow when they are fed and shrink during periods of starvation. However, it is unclear how they maintain appropriate body proportions as their size changes. A new paper in Development investigates the differences between growth and shrinkage dynamics and builds a mathematical model to explore the mechanisms underpinning these two processes. To learn more about the story behind the paper, we caught up with first author, Jason Ko, and corresponding author, Daniel Lobo, Associate Professor at the University of Maryland.Item Elizabeth Patton, University of Maryland Baltimore County – The Home Office and Work-Life Balance(Academic mintue, 2023-09-18) Academic Minute; Patton, ElizabethOn University of Maryland Baltimore County Week: A healthy work-life balance can be difficult no matter where you apply your trade. Today on The Academic Minute: Elizabeth Patton, associate professor of media and communication studies, examines how we portray work/life balance at home. Elizabeth Patton is media historian interested in discourses of gender, race and class in the history of media, representations of urbanism and suburbanism in popular culture, and the impact of communication technologies on space and place. She is the author of Easy Living: The Rise of the Home Office (Rutgers University Press, 2020). She is the recipient of the 2023 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship. Recent research can be found in edited volumes such as Media Crossroads: Intersections of Space and Identity in Screen Cultures (Duke University Press, 2021) and Race and the Suburbs in American Film (SUNY Press, 2021). She currently serves as managing co-editor of Mediapolis: A Journal of Cities and Culture.Item The Social Sciences of Podcasts with Dr. Jason Loviglio(UMBC Center for Social Science Research, 2024-04-08) Anson, Ian; Loviglio, JasonOn this episode, Dr. Anson speaks with Dr. Jason Loviglio, Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Media and Communication Studies at UMBC. Dr. Loviglio is the co-editor of The Routledge Companion to Radio and Podcasting Studies, and recently published a piece about podcasting entitled “From Radio to Podcasting: Intimacy and Massification” that echoes many of the themes in our discussion.Item Jewish Cemetery Association Strives to Create Comprehensive Graves Database(Maryland Jewish Media, 2024-03-04) Feiler, Alan; Engel, DonWith the help of volunteers, the Jewish Cemetery Association of Greater Baltimore is working to catalog the Jewish cemeteries and graves in the area for its digital database, including the identification of graves at some of Jewish Baltimore's oldest cemeteries.Item 2024 Nancy Kusmaul, Social Work, Receives “Outstanding Individual In Academia” Award From The Congressional Research Institute For Social Work And Policy(2024-04-26) Duque, Catalina Sofia Dansberger; Demond, MarlaynaUMBC's Nancy Kusmaul, associate professor of social work, a scholar and advocate for the rights of older adults and professional caregivers, received the “Outstanding Individual in Academia” award from the Congressional Research Institute for Social Work and Policy in March 2024 at a ceremony on Capitol Hill. Kusmaul’s work is informed by her 10 years of experience as a social worker and over a decade of novel scholarship.Item UMBC Joins BRAIN Center To Advance Innovations In Neurotechnologies - UMBC(UMBC News, 2024-04-09) Meyers, Catherine; Vinjamuri, RamanaUMBC is joining a industry-university cooperative research center aiming to improve how we diagnose and treat people with conditions such as neurological disorders, brain injury, mental illness, limb loss and paralysis.Item Mellon Foundation grants CAHSS $750K to establish Global Asias Initiative(UMBC News, 2024-04-03) Duque, Catalina Sofia Dansberger; Demond, MarlaynaItem Open to Interpretation(UMBC Magazine, 2023-06-08) O'Grady, JennyItem UMBC celebrates 25th Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement Day with an expanded global audience(UMBC News, 2021-05-12) Duque, Catalina Sofia DansbergerItem UMBC’s newest computing grads, from bachelor’s to Ph.D., share stories of connection, support, opportunity(UMBC News, 2020-12-14) Mastrola, Megan HanksItem New U.S. News rankings honor UMBC strengths in teaching, innovation, and inclusion(UMBC News, 2020-09-14) McCaffrey, Kait; Winnick, DinahItem Surfing The Net With Project Waves(WYPR, 2020-09-09) Kast, Sheilah; Harvie, Maureen; Hamidi, Foad; Bennet, Jay; Bouhmad, AdamInternet access allows us to work and learn at home. For some, it’s a luxury out of their reach. To dent that digital divide, Adam Bouhmad founded Project Waves, a nonprofit that provides free Internet access to families across Baltimore. UMBC assistant professor Foad Hamidi describes how lack of internet makes disparities even worse for low-income families. And Jay Bennet tells how getting connected to the web has made life easier.Item UMBC’s Foad Hamidi receives NSF RAPID grant to expand free, secure internet access in Baltimore during COVID-19 and beyond(UMBC News, 2020-07-27) Mastrola, Megan HanksItem Wearable sensors and infrared cameras: Introducing UMBC’s User Studies Lab(UMBC News, 2020-02-05) Mastrola, Megan HanksItem DIY assistive technology prototypes can help people with disabilities to communicate(News-Medical.Net, 2020-02-11) Anderton, KateItem Do-It-Yourself Assistive Technologies(Diario da saude, 2020-04-02)Item Creating New Antiviral Drugs: Innovative Fleximer Research(UMBC RESEARCH AND CREATIVE ACHIEVEMENT, 2023) Hansen, SarahItem Creating new antiviral drugs: Katherine Seley-Radtke’s innovative “fleximer” research to receive $3.5M from NIH(UMBC News, 2022-06-10) Hansen, SarahItem UMBC researchers receive a Fast Grant to study antivirals’ effectiveness against COVID-19(UMBC News, 2020-05-06) Hansen, Sarah