Educational technology reseacher sees three trends that shrink the role of traditional college professors: Rise of AI, erosion of tenure, and flipped classrooms.
Cities worldwide aren’t adapting to climate change quickly enough
Remaking cities worldwide to deal with extreme weather events and new climate regimes will require massive investments in new ideas, practices, and skills.
Viruses are both the villains and heroes of life as we know it
Viruses are arguably nature’s powerhouses for genetic innovation. Humans are likely here today because of them.
How to make comparing prices of an MRI or colonoscopy as easy as shopping for a new laptop
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that almost 33 cents of every dollar spent on health care in the U.S. goes to hospitals – and that’s excluding what your doctor bills you separately. But hospital pricing isn’t just expensive. It’s also murky.
Over-the-counter rapid antigen tests for COVID-19 can help slow the spread of the delta variant
A health economist writes that making COVID-19 testing accessible, accurate, and fast is critical to slowing transmission of the virus.
UMBC community responds to Hrabowski retirement news with gratitude
“Each of us holds in our hands the legacy of Freeman’s leadership and that of all members of our community who have built it into what it is today,” Provost Philip Rous shared at Thursday’s Fall Opening Meeting.
Photo Essay: Celebrating Campus Sustainers
While the pandemic required most of our community to adjust to virtual life at home, other Retrievers worked tirelessly on campus to keep UMBC running.
Nursing home residents and staff are traumatized from the pandemic—collaborative care can help with recovery
Isolation, emotional neglect, and fear of life-threatening disease may bring up past traumas for caregivers to manage, cautions social work professor.
The Rocky Yet Rewarding Road of Graduate Research
“Be willing to be an independent thinker and be willing to be wrong,” says graduate student Amanda Belunis as ways to succeed in analytical chemistry.
Taxing bachelors and proposing marriage lotteries – how superpowers addressed declining birthrates in the past
A historian reflects on how governments and societies have traditionally responded to low marriage and birthrates with various persuasion techniques.