Great program for anyone interested in becoming a better computer scientist!

A great opportunity!

“It’s this idea that you can come from all kinds of backgrounds and become the best. That’s the message that we’ve got to send," said President Freeman Hrabowski. washingtonpost.com/education/2022…

UMBC has officially reached the nation’s highest level of research performance. The Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education announced UMBC has been placed into the category of doctoral universities w/ very high research activity (R1). news.umbc.edu/umbc-ascends-t…

Throughout the week, we’ll be sharing photos + updates from Alternative Spring Break (ASB). Here, our ASB leaders & Center for Democracy and Civic Life at UMBC staff members prepare for the program's Orientation, where participants will meet each other and learn more about the six-day learning journey ahead.

Four UMBC students have been named 2022-23 Goldwater Scholars. This year’s recipients are Christopher Slaughter, Rachel Myers, Tobi Majekodunmi & D’Juan Moreland. UMBC had more winners this year than any other institution in the state of MD. #UMBCproud news.umbc.edu/four-umbc-stud…

I confess that I like MATLAB. I am a monster—plain and simple—actively working to harm science. Actually, I think it's much more important that people use the tools that they feel allows them to do their best and most reproducible science, and not be shamed for it.

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New research led by Matthew Fagan, assistant professor of geography and environmental systems at UMBC, finds that some trees planted in the tropics may be doing more harm than good. umbc.edu/stories/beyond…

It's very rare for there to be a "first" at a place like Princeton Neuroscience Institute, but Rebekah and @theiStone are the first grad students in our history to receive NIH F31 awards. Congrats to Rebekah and Iris! bit.ly/3dANztR

University students skip lectures to study

We are recruiting 30 - yes, that's right, 30! - Chancellor's Fellows to prestigious, tenure-track, research-intensive early/mid-career roles at the University of Edinburgh. Please spread the word!

🚨 Our new research with Heriot-Watt University, The Homelessness Monitor: Great Britain, suggests 300,000 households in Britain could experience the worst forms of homelessness next year if the UK government doesn’t urgently change course. The full picture and our response - a thread.

We're proud to introduce the 2023 class of Marshall Scholars! They will begin graduate studies at universities across the United Kingdom next year, coinciding with the 70th anniversary of the scholarship. Learn more about the Marshall Scholars program at marshallscholars.org

Gates Cambridge is pleased to announce the 23 new US scholars who will begin their studies this autumn. Congratulations to all and we look forward to seeing you soon - gatescambridge.org/about/news/fir… Cambridge University Gates Foundation GatesCambridgeAlumni

I really couldn’t be happier 🥲

We look forward to working with you Chris! umbc.edu/stories/gates-…

"What if we took 2-3 months to rewrite the whole thing? Start from scratch, fix all the mistakes we know about, and we will have a clean state, all our problems solved." There's a divide between engineers who thought about doing this, and those who did it, and it's a big one.