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UMBC’s Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement Day (URCAD) is returning for its 29th year on April 16. For nearly three decades, the annual showcase highlights the research, scholarship,...

Dear UMBC Community, At UMBC, we seek to create an environment characterized by openness, fairness, and equal access for all students, staff, and faculty. A welcoming and inclusive environment...

On a sunny and unseasonably warm Halloween this past fall, a group of costumed UMBC students strolled the banks of the Inner Harbor in Baltimore. The costumes were in good fun, but the spirit...

Dear Campus Community, I am writing to address ongoing questions and concerns received from students, faculty, and staff regarding international travel. First, it is important to acknowledge...

Written by Fred L. Pincus, emeritus professor of sociology, UMBC President Donald Trump issued an executive order to dismantle the Education Department on March 20, 2025, that calls for...

A multidisciplinary team of UMBC researchers was recently awarded $3.8 million from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop new computational methods for assessing the...

During a recent trip to Normandy, France, UMBC student Rebecca Smith hopped over to Lüneburg, a historic town in northern Germany, to visit Gertrud Krause-Traudes, her partner in UMBC’s Virtual...

Meet Harish Reddy Manyam, M.P.S. ’24, data science. Harish is a data scientist and AI governance advisor at Marshfield Clinic Health System, where he gets to put his interest in AI/machine...

Dear UMBC Community, As many of you know, in April 2024, UMBC entered into an agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to improve and expand upon our work to prevent and respond to...

The TowerCares Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the Laurel, Maryland-based Tower Federal Credit Union, has partnered with UMBC’s Cybersecurity Institute to create a new scholarship fund for...