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All posts by: Sarah Hansen, M.S. '15


three maps of the eastern United States generated using PACE data and showing increasing presence of anthocyanins, the red in fall colors, from the first to the third weeks of October 2024

For the leaf peepers: How NASA’s PACE is improving fall color forecasts

Jun 12, 2026 / 3 minutes of reading
illustration of eight faces representing different entrepreneurship personas arranged in an S-shape across the page; spiraling staircases at the left and right side

Business—not as usual

Jun 12, 2026 / 10 minutes of reading
two people holding clear plastic containers each holding a fish, backed by a stream scene

Darter detective: Ph.D. student Payton Barry on ecosystems, outreach, and grant hunting  

Jun 5, 2026 / 5 minutes of reading
three people present at the front of a conference room; slides on a screen, one pointing to the screen

Inaugural “MyRCA” interdisciplinary faculty cohort empowers researchers to bring their work to life

Jun 1, 2026 / 4 minutes of reading
graduates in regalia catch confetti as it comes down from the ceiling

UMBC Class of 2026: Ready to contribute their voices

May 26, 2026 / 4 minutes of reading
A Chandra X-ray Observatory image around the Sagittarius A* supermassive black hole, located in the center of the Milky Way galaxy, is shown. The image is dominated by vibrant red and blue hues, with a large amount of celestial objects visible. At the center of the image, there is a bright, lumpy object showing the intense X-ray radiation emanating from the Sgr A* black hole. In the surrounding area, there are a couple smaller lumps layered throughout the image, feathering out to a large almost butterfly shape filling much of the screen. The image appears textured, like dozens of blue and orange glow worms are paused in their wriggling. The image offers an unprecedented view of lobes of hot gas extending for a dozen light years on either side of the black hole. These lobes provide evidence for powerful eruptions occurring several times over the last ten thousand years. The image also contains several mysterious X-ray filaments, some of which may be huge magnetic structures interacting with streams of energetic electrons produced by rapidly spinning neutron stars. Such features are known as pulsar wind nebulas.

Revealing galactic history with cosmic rays

May 21, 2026 / 4 minutes of reading
Rileigh Mansfield with mentors and co-presenter in front of their research poster

Rileigh Mansfield ’26—a mathematician with contagious enthusiasm and a ‘Survivor’ spirit

May 5, 2026 / 7 minutes of reading
large crowd in commencement regalia, students throwing their caps in the air

Meyerhoff Scholars Program celebrates 500th Ph.D.

May 4, 2026 / 5 minutes of reading
Daniel Suárez-Forero, Edgar Nicolás "Nico" Rueda-Becerra, and Yohannes Girma stand beneath a large, red, cylindrical instrument in the laboratory

One photon, a trillion electrons: UMBC physicist Daniel Suárez-Forero explores the quantum frontier

May 1, 2026 / 5 minutes of reading
Matthew Stromberg and Max Prager toss food into a fish tank

UMBC Center for Precision Aquaculture launches to boost sustainable U.S. fish farming

Apr 30, 2026 / 5 minutes of reading
UMBC Library and Library Pond in springtime

Eight Retrievers awarded prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowships

Apr 24, 2026 / 3 minutes of reading
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