From UMBC News and Magazine
UMBC historian Anne Rubin examines food scarcity in the Confederate South through NEH fellowship
“Historians know that the Confederacy ran out of food by the end of the Civil War, and it shouldn’t have because it was an agricultural society,” says Anne Rubin, professor of history at UMBC. “I...
Posted: March 10, 2020, 9:20 PM
UMBC leads research team to study COVID-19-related discrimination against Chinese Americans
As the COVID-19 outbreak originating in China has spread to populations across all continents except Antarctica, racism and discrimination against Chinese-American people have also increased. A...
Posted: March 6, 2020, 7:50 PM
International team led by UMBC identifies new bird species in the South Pacific
In the 1930s, famed biologist Ernst Mayr became the first to study Pacific Robins. Based on his observations of the robins and other birds on Australia and its outlying islands, he developed...
Posted: March 6, 2020, 6:36 PM
Chronicling history’s unsung heroes – Kristina Gaddy ’09
Venturing into a Gestapo interrogation cell is not the way many people would choose to do research. Nevertheless, Kristina R. Gaddy ’09, history and modern languages and linguistics, felt it...
Posted: March 5, 2020, 2:00 PM
Predicting the coronavirus outbreak: How AI connects the dots to warn about disease threats
by Vandana Janeja, Professor of Information Systems, UMBC Canadian artificial intelligence (AI) firm BlueDot has been in the news in recent weeks for warning about the new coronavirus days ahead...
Posted: March 3, 2020, 1:50 PM
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