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Due to the delays with the 2024-25 FAFSA, UMBC has extended the First Year Student Fall 2024 enrollment confirmation deadline from May 1 to May 15, 2024. For more information, please visit UMBC Financial Aid.
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UMBC scientists and engineers celebrate launch of HARP2 instrument on NASA’s PACE mission
After over a decade of concerted effort, full of setbacks and recoveries, UMBC’s HARP team celebrated as the instrument they designed and built launched on PACE, a major NASA mission set to study Earth’s atmosphere and oceans. Continue Reading UMBC scientists and engineers celebrate launch of HARP2 instrument on NASA’s PACE mission