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Once upon a time, Joseph T. Jones, Jr. ’06 thought he couldn’t escape the city’s mean streets. Now he’s leading efforts to... Read more.

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UMBC’s Exceptional by Example campaign transformed the campus. But you can’t calculate its true impact without assessing how... Read more.

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As an analytical chemist and senior scientist for consumer goods giant Proctor & Gamble, Ronita Marple ’05 Ph.D., chemistry, observes that it’s not unusual for her to walk past a lab and catch a glimpse of a robot testing a product by performing a household chore over and over again, for hours on end, to identify a product’s weaknesses without stressing out human testers in the process.

Such grueling tests are part of how all of the nearly 125 products marketed by Proctor & Gamble end up in a consumer’s shopping cart. So is Marple’s own job mundane and robotic?
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