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Seven current and former UMBC Physics faculty members are included among the top 2% of world scientists based on career citations. The detailed data and methodology can be found here:...

Natural dust particles and human-produced pollutants in the atmosphere affect Earth’s overall energy budget in different and nuanced ways. A new three-year, $620,000 NSF grant led by Zhibo Zhang,...

UMBC Physics PhD student Kamal Aryal, his PhD advisor Pengwang Zhai and their collaborators from NASA Goddard Space Flight center has recently published their work in Applied Optics. In this work,...

UMBC physics Ph.D. graduate Brian Uthe, his Ph.D. advisor Matthew Pelton, and their collaborator John Sader (currently at CalTech) recently published a review of work by their group and others...

Congratulations to our graduate students who have advanced into PhD Candidacy over the past year: Atmospheric Physics Program Adeleke Segun Ademakinwa, Advisor: Zhibo Zhang "Can biased cloud...

Meet Emily Faber, M.S. ’21, atmospheric physics, who is currently pursuing her doctorate in the same at UMBC. Emily is a first-generation college student who is also very involved as a student...

Dr. Meyer was interviewed by Sheila Kast of On The Record, the daily ‘inside story’ program hosted on local NPR station WYPR. The taped interview can be replayed at the link below....

NASA Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology Maurice Roots Proposal Title: Facilitating the Next Generation of Air Quality Science: Synergy of NASA's Ground-Based...

"Conditions for Equivalent Noise Sensitivity of Geometric and Dynamical Quantum Gates" R. K. L. Colmenar, Utkan Gungordu, and J. P. Kestner PRX Quantum 3, 030310 - Published 19 July 2022...

NBC4 aired a report on the NASA SaSa program on 7/14/22. The students will be in the Physics Department at UMBC for the next two weeks working on analysis....