From UMBC News and Magazine
Chronic illness redirected Jaime Miller’s medical career—today she advocates for people with lupus, including herself
When Jaime Miller ’06, biochemistry, was in the final stages of her M.D/Ph.D., she did not expect her 15-year educational journey to be derailed by her own medical mystery. She certainly didn’t...
Posted: February 6, 2026, 2:26 PM
Meet a Retriever—Manpreet Suri ’14, M.S. ’15 is an entrepreneur and digital tool builder
Meet Manpreet Suri ’14, M.S. ’15, information systems, an entrepreneur, digital solutions problem solver, McNair Scholar, and a member of the Alumni Association Board of Directors. Suri found a...
Posted: February 5, 2026, 2:52 PM
Sisters in science: How one UMBC lab kindled a family tradition of discovery
On the fourth floor of UMBC’s Meyerhoff Chemistry Building, where students are hard at work exploring the intricacies of RNA molecules that may hold the key to combating viral diseases, a unique...
Posted: February 5, 2026, 1:43 PM
A place to spark scientific curiosity—UMBC hosts 1,200 high schoolers at Science Olympiad invitational
On a cloudy Saturday in January, UMBC buzzed with the energy of over 1,200 high school students from across the Mid-Atlantic region. For the third consecutive year, UMBC’s College of Natural and...
Posted: February 5, 2026, 11:30 AM
Starting the Spring Semester
Dear UMBC Community, With the cold and wintry conditions that delayed the start of in-person classes by a week, it seems strange to refer to this as the spring semester! I hope that you all...
Posted: February 2, 2026, 8:59 PM
UMBC physicist wins Amazon award to build AI-orchestrated scientific assistant
Fabio Anza, an assistant professor in UMBC’s Department of Physics, Quantum Science Institute and Cybersecurity Institute, has won an Amazon Research Award to develop Physics Co-Pilot—a scientific...
Posted: January 29, 2026, 1:46 PM
Recent Updates to Immigration and Visa Policies
Dear Campus Community, I am writing to update you regarding four recent changes to federal immigration and visa policies. Each of these changes is summarized in bold, with details underneath,...
Posted: January 22, 2026, 5:58 PM
‘Why do I need to know this?’ Padhu Seshaiyer, Ph.D. ’98, on why math matters
More than 20 years ago, Padmanabhan “Padhu” Seshaiyer, Ph.D. ’98, applied mathematics, observed researchers stretching aneurysm tissue samples in a neighboring lab, generating a dataset to...
Posted: January 22, 2026, 2:19 PM
Brown named dean of the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences at UMBC
Christia Spears Brown, Ph.D., has been named dean of the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) effective July 1, 2026. Brown joins...
Posted: January 20, 2026, 12:45 PM
UMBC retains designation as a Carnegie Community Engaged campus
UMBC has been designated as one of only three institutions in Maryland dually recognized with Carnegie R1 status—among the top 5 percent of research universities in the nation—and the Carnegie...
Posted: January 12, 2026, 1:37 PM
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