From UMBC News and Magazine
Feeling supported at summer internships gives Retrievers a leg up in applied learning
“Support” is one of the most frequently used words when UMBC students reflect on their internship experiences on and off campus. From resources offered by the Career Center, to guidance from...
Posted: September 12, 2025, 4:12 PM
Picturing Mobility: Black Tourism and Leisure During the Jim Crow Era
The Jim Crow era was marked by strict racial segregation, severely limiting Black individuals’ mobility and dignity. Public leisure spaces were often segregated, making travel dangerous and...
Posted: September 12, 2025, 3:58 PM
A giant among mantis shrimp: Tom Cronin’s outsized legacy of mentorship ripples outward in visual ecology and beyond
Every biological sciences graduate student at UMBC knows “the face”—Tom Cronin’s signature scowl, which, contrary to appearances, signals rapt attention rather than disapproval. At a day-long...
Posted: September 12, 2025, 12:23 PM
Understanding the Tree of Life: A fresh look at evolution with biology professor Kevin Omland
Kevin Omland, professor of biological sciences, has spent 25 years teaching and researching evolution. His new book, Understanding the Tree of Life, is the latest in the “Understanding Life”...
Posted: September 12, 2025, 12:00 PM
Meet a Retriever—Anita Das ’83, M.S. ’87, mostly-retired medical researcher and planned giving donor
Meet Anita Das ’83, M.S. ’87. Anita is a mostly-retired medical researcher specializing in infectious diseases and a UMBC planned giving donor. She still consults with biotech companies as a...
Posted: September 10, 2025, 1:17 PM
Meet Dean van Briesen: COEIT’s new leader shares her love of teaching and discovery
Chance and faith: These two forces have shaped the trajectory of Jeanne van Briesen’s life (while also inspiring the names for her two Russian Blue cats). It was by chance that she went down the...
Posted: September 9, 2025, 3:33 PM
How China uses second world war history in its bid to reshape the global order – podcast
The Conversation Weekly Podcast Interview with Meredith Oyen, Associate Professor of History and Asian Studies, UMBC. With Russia’s Vladimir Putin and North Korea’s Kim Jong-Un among 26 world...
Posted: September 9, 2025, 2:08 PM
Reverse discrimination? In spite of the MAGA bluster over DEI, data shows white Americans are still advantaged
Written by Fred L. Pincus, emeritus professor of Sociology, UMBC. Two big assumptions underlie President Donald Trump’s attack on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies. The first is...
Posted: September 9, 2025, 1:21 PM
Explore or exploit: Research with robotics and medical applications that decodes animal decision-making earns NIH grant
A glass knifefish darts back and forth in a short tube, its brain activity being recorded in real time. This small fish, alternating between swift bursts of sensing activity and slower,...
Posted: September 9, 2025, 11:35 AM
After a lifetime of adapting her English to fit the occasion, Ivy Nguyen ’23 pursues further language education abroad with critical funding
When Ivy Nguyen moved to the United States from Vietnam in 2014, her high school peers struggled to understand the British English she had grown up speaking. As she found herself “lost in British...
Posted: September 9, 2025, 9:39 AM
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