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Throughout its history, UMBC has encouraged community members to take risks and make lasting changes to guide our institution to become the empowered University it is today. UMBC is nothing...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently released its latest Higher Education Research and Development (HERD) survey, including UMBC among the top 150 U.S. universities in federal research...

“I want you to tell your stories because stories inspire.” Hundreds of mortarboard-laden heads nodded in agreement as President Freeman Hrabowski addressed the audience during UMBC’s 2018...

UMBC’s Tim Finin, professor of computer science and electrical engineering (CSEE), has been named a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), a distinctive honor granted to less...

Each UMBC student has a unique journey, including challenges to tackle with tenacity, courage, and grit. For many of UMBC’s newest grads, a culture of community support has made all the...

As a Cyber Scholar at UMBC, Victoria Herr ’18 knows how important mentorship and direct, hands-on experience can be for young women in computing. Herr is graduating with an information systems...

Thanks to photos and films featuring clouds of stunning orange and black monarch butterflies flying across North America, many people today are familiar with how monarchs migrate. The migration...

UMBC’s Office of the Vice President for Research recently presented awards to support the work of two dozen UMBC faculty examining topics from health disparities among people with diabetes to...

“I just had this feeling that there had to be more to this story,” says Nicolle “Niki” Konkel ’18, on the striking lack of women in her art history textbooks. So, with the support of faculty...

by Felipe A. Filomeno, Assistant Professor of Political Science and Global Studies, UMBC President Donald Trump tends to portray migrants as a foreign problem that has suddenly – and unfairly –...