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About the Meyerhoff Scholars Program

The Meyerhoff Scholars Program is at the forefront of efforts to increase diversity among future leaders in science, technology, engineering and related fields. The UMBC Meyerhoff family is now more than 1600 strong, with over 1400 alumni across the nation and 245 students enrolled at UMBC. Over 300 graduates are currently pursuing graduate and professional degrees in STEM fields. Read More >

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Meyerhoffs and Dr. Hrabowski at MIT

Simons Foundation and Stony Brook University Model Meyerhoff

Nothing Succeeds Like Success

We Know How to Diversify STEM Fields. The Challenge Is Spreading What Works

News Feature: Keeping Black Students in STEM

How to Actually Promote Diversity in STEM

Chan Zuckerberg Invests $6.9M to Diversify STEM – Using Meyerhoff Model

UMBC STEM Scholar Success Heads to the West Coast (WYPR 88.1FM Radio Interview)

Science Article on Meyerhoff Adaptation

Baltimore Sun Article about Gen Z Featuring Two Meyerhoff Scholars

New York Times Article on the Meyerhoff Scholars Program

President Emeritus Freeman Hrabowski’s 2015 Ivory Dome Award Video

NIH Record – Meyerhoff Scholars visit to the National Institutes of Health

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7/22/2024

From UMBC News and Magazine

Phage Hunters: Popular UMBC research program opens doors to biotech careers

Viet Dang ’18, biological sciences, originally imagined pursuing medical school after UMBC. But when he took the Phage Hunters course to fulfill his genetics requirement, that changed. “The Phage...

Posted: June 24, 2019, 9:03 PM

The Power of Community

One student’s story could appear to inspired onlookers as a meteoric rise: excelling from private school to lauded scholarship programs and landing an ivy school opportunity post-graduation. But...

Posted: June 17, 2019, 11:29 PM

Urgent Care

This is what it looks like when researchers push beyond band-aid solutions and design better answers to pressing medical and mental-health issues. The Patapsco Valley might not bring to mind the...

Posted: June 17, 2019, 7:56 PM

CNMS celebrates a year of growth in partnerships to support student success

When Bill LaCourse became dean of UMBC’s College of Natural and Mathematical Sciences (CNMS) in 2012, he had three top priorities in mind: innovate undergraduate science education to boost...

Posted: June 14, 2019, 9:18 PM

UMBC’s Jeff Leips receives NIH grant to explore how genes affect immune system function as we age

As we age, our immune systems don’t work as well as they did when we were younger. That phenomenon is called immunosenescence, and it’s not exclusive to humans. The decline of the immune system...

Posted: June 13, 2019, 3:17 PM

UMBC’s Hua Lu works to decode plant defense system, with an eye on improving farming and medicine

UMBC’s Hua Lu, professor of biological sciences, and colleagues have found new genetic links between a plant’s circadian rhythm (essentially, an internal clock) and its ability to fend off...

Posted: June 12, 2019, 4:20 PM

Dreams Realized: Celebrating 30 Years of UMBC’s Meyerhoff Scholars Program

Thirty years ago, Baltimore philanthropist Robert E. Meyerhoff came to then-UMBC vice provost Freeman Hrabowski with the seed of an idea: to create a program that would enable all students,...

Posted: June 7, 2019, 11:02 PM

Spider Glue’s Sticky Secret Revealed By New Genetic Research

By Sarah Stellwagen, postdoctoral researcher in biological sciences, UMBC What do all of the over 45,000 described spider species on Earth have in common? Each makes at least one type of silk....

Posted: June 5, 2019, 3:37 PM

UMBC’s Sarah Stellwagen first in world to sequence genes for spider glue

Today in Genes, Genomes, Genetics, UMBC postdoctoral fellow Sarah Stellwagen and co-author Rebecca Renberg at the Army Research Lab published the first-ever complete sequences of two genes that...

Posted: June 5, 2019, 2:09 PM

UMBC’s Glenn Wolfe develops new method to gauge atmosphere’s ability to clear methane, a potent greenhouse gas

New research by UMBC’s Glenn Wolfe and collaborators is shaping how scientists understand the fate of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, in Earth’s atmosphere. Of the greenhouse gases, methane...

Posted: May 31, 2019, 6:02 PM

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