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Leach & White develop sensors for real-time drug monitoring

Team awarded $1.2M in funding from NIH

The ability to provide real-time information about an individual's response to therapeutics has the potential to revolutionize healthcare by offering personalized treatment. Drugs with narrow...

Posted: January 4, 2016, 7:32 PM

Ghosh/Sowers project featured on Quantico Base news site

research aims to prevent PCBs from entering food chain

Marine Corps Base Quantico -- The murky waters at Abraham’s Creek at Marine Corps Base Quantico have the potential to provide a solution to the problem of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs)...

Posted: December 22, 2015, 8:55 AM

What do environmental engineers do?

CBEE students, Helena Gaifem, Nicholas Rogers, Utsav Shashvatt, Kiranmayi Mangalgiri, Hollie Adejumo, Hannah Aris, and Savannah Steinly, tell you in the following video:...

Posted: December 19, 2015, 7:20 PM

Dr. Theresa Good Honored by the AIChE

Former CBEE faculty wins Distinguished Service Award

Dr. Theresa Good, Former UMBC CBEE faculty member, currently Deputy Division Director of the Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences at NSF was recognized by the American Institute of...

Posted: December 4, 2015, 10:13 AM

CBEE undergrads attend AIChE poster competition

Apurva Shah wins 1st prize in Sustainability discipline

Congratulations to CBEE undergraduate students Michael Valerino, Matthew Sweeney, and Apurva Shah, who presented their work at the AIChE Annual Student Conference poster competition on...

Posted: November 19, 2015, 1:39 PM

CAST/CSEE/CBEE to help kids with asthma breathe more easily

team has received nearly $2 million award from NIH

An innovative team of researchers working across engineering fields has received a nearly $2 million award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) PRISMS program to develop a comprehensive...

Posted: November 11, 2015, 1:42 PM

Blaney Lab nutrient recovery research highlighted by VOA

Ongoing research from the Blaney Lab was highlighted in a recent Voice of America News piece titled, "In Search of a Solution: Turning Manure Into Money," by Steve Baragona. Blaney's team is...

Posted: November 10, 2015, 5:16 PM

Rao discusses "beyond revolutionary" portable bioreactors

Innovation developed to save lives on battlefields

From UMBC Insights: Soldiers on the battlefield and first-responders in conflict zones will soon be able to save lives by using a portable, briefcase-sized tool that rapidly manufactures...

Posted: November 5, 2015, 11:19 AM

Sensors class attends Pediatric Innovation Symposium

On October 23rd, Dr. Rao's Sensors class is attending the 3rd annual pediatric innovation symposium at the Newseum in DC . Companies are pitching for winning the Sheikh Zayed prizes for...

Posted: October 23, 2015, 3:27 PM

UMBC iGEM Team wins Bronze Medal

Congratulations to the student-run International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) team for winning a bronze medal at the 2015 Giant Jamboree which took place September 24-28 in Boston, MA....

Posted: October 8, 2015, 7:58 AM