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Tamás Várnai, research associate professor at UMBC’s Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology, has been instrumental in determining the source of unusual flashes of light spotted in images...

From June 16 to 23, UMBC’s Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall will host an ambitious new annual event, Festival Baltimore, featuring performances of major classical chamber music works by...

Ahead of final exams this spring, nearly 200 students gathered at UMBC  for “Innovate Good,” a hackathon co-hosted by HackUMBC and The Shriver Center, UMBC’s hub for service-learning, civic...

The Choice Program at UMBC has received a $50,000 Collaborative Opportunity Grant to launch The Path Before Me, an initiative designed to increase the number of Baltimore City Public School...

UMBC biologists Phyllis Robinson and Preethi Somasundaram may have identified a key factor that contributes to our understanding of biological clocks and associated disorders, such as...

The Retriever community came together late last week to celebrate UMBC’s final spring commencement in downtown Baltimore’s Royal Farms Arena. Two decades after outgrowing its original campus home,...

Michelle Starz-Gaiano’s research on fruit flies seeks to uncover biological mechanisms driving embryonic development and is applicable to a variety of contexts. For example, her findings may help...

Kafui Dzirasa ’01, chemical engineering, is only 38, but is already emerging as a national leader in brain science. His research – which posits that some of the most common mental illnesses might...

For the first time in program history, UMBC Baseball has won the America East championship and received an automatic bid to the Winston-Salem Regional for the NCAA tournament. UMBC Baseball wins...

UMBC Researchers Explore the New Great Frontier – The Brain By Megan Hanks Illustrations by David Plunkert In the early 1960s, the prospect of being the first nation to plant a flag on the...