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Building Bridges in STEM

UMBC Mathematics Partners with the Ingenuity Project

In early 2024, the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at UMBC launched an exciting partnership with the Ingenuity Project, a premier STEM magnet program housed at Baltimore Polytechnic...

Posted: May 28, 2025, 4:14 PM

Cell Migration

A collaborative Math-Bio research

Naghmeh Akhavan defended her doctoral dissertation last month.  The interdisciplinary research, under the supervision of her mentor, Dr. Brad Peercy, and in collaboration with fellow graduate...

Posted: May 28, 2025, 2:17 PM

Probability & Statistics Day 2025

May May 9-10, 2025

The 16th annual UMBC Prob-Stat Day conference will be held at the University of Maryland Baltimore County on May 9-10, 2025. The program consists of a short course  on Principles of functional...

Posted: April 21, 2025, 4:27 PM

Photos of four plenary speakers

SIAM DMV Student Chapter Conference

Saturday, April 26th, 2025

The SIAM Delaware-Maryland-Virginia Student Chapter's 2025 Conference will be held on Saturday, April 26th, 2025 on the JHU campus.  See the link below for the details.

Posted: March 26, 2025, 10:51 PM

Thomas Seidman Endows Chair

Maryland Department of Commerce awards matching fund

The late Dr. Seidman's estate has donated $1.06 million to UMBC to create the Dr. Thomas I. Seidman Endowed Chair in mathematics. The Maryland E-nnovation Initiative, an effort within the Maryland...

Posted: March 21, 2025, 4:39 PM

The Finite Element Circus

Brief history and events at UMBC

This UMBC News story was written on the occasion of the October 18, 2025 gathering of the Finite Element Circus at UMBC.

Posted: March 3, 2025, 4:42 PM

Learning to think math

Teaching proof-based mathematics

This story in UMBC News tells about the introduction of the course Math 300: Introduction to Mathematical Reasoning, and its impact on students' success in subsequent courses.

Posted: February 19, 2025, 10:58 PM

The hunt for elegant solutions

Story in UMBC News

This UMBC News story highlights the research of Drs. Andrei Draganescu, Ansu Chatterjee, and Matthew Kvalheim.

Posted: February 12, 2025, 1:48 PM

Digital Twins

NSF grant to study neurodegenerative diseases

Principal investigator Dr. Snigdhansu (Ansu) Chatterjeeand co-investigators Dr. Karuna Joshi and Dr. Animikh Biswas have been awarded an NSF grant to apply digital twinning technology to diagnose,...

Posted: October 19, 2024, 6:37 PM

Photos from the Ingenuity Conference

An outreach to Baltimore's high schools

Ingenuity is a STEM magnet school housed in Baltimore Polytechnic Institute (Poly), in Baltimore City, renowned for their work with STEM-oriented students, and placing their best students in some...

Posted: June 23, 2024, 3:24 PM