From UMBC News and Magazine
UMBC’s Livewire 7 music festival explores the avant garde
UMBC’s department of music will present its annual Livewire festival of new music, featuring concerts, discussions and lectures, October 26 – 29, in the Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall and...
Posted: October 25, 2016, 8:19 PM
Michael Eric Dyson headlines Obama Effect 2.0 conference at UMBC
The world will know who the next U.S. president will be after November 8, but leading up to the election it is unclear what the future of President Obama’s legacy will be under the next...
Posted: October 25, 2016, 1:32 PM
New virtual reality space at UMBC reduces distance between computers, data and people
UMBC’s new PI^2 Immersive Hybrid Reality Lab will allow faculty and students to interact with data in different, more visual ways than they have before, reducing the distance between the...
Posted: October 21, 2016, 2:37 PM
Empowering Baltimore communities toward social change
Humanities scholars, cultural organizers, and community representatives will gather on October 29 for a dynamic discussion about building democracy, fostering social justice, and improving...
Posted: October 20, 2016, 7:21 PM
Creative minds from UMBC join in White House events, from visual arts to neuroscience
Five Linehan Artist Scholars from UMBC visited the White House last week to participate in a workshop led by William Allman, chief White House curator. Adan Rodriguez ‘17, film; Justyna Kurbiel...
Posted: October 19, 2016, 4:21 PM
Nature spotlights Summers Lab for showing how science can be for everyone
A recent article in Nature asked, “Is science only for the rich?” In the United States, writer Jane J. Lee concluded, there are steep challenges for students from lower-income backgrounds who want...
Posted: October 18, 2016, 7:32 PM
HackUMBC inspires students to create fresh technical solutions in whirlwind 24-hour hackathon
Nearly 500 students from UMBC and colleges across the region gathered on campus for HackUMBC 2016, a 24-hour hackathon for students to develop technological solutions (“hacks”) to problems that...
Posted: October 18, 2016, 2:44 PM
Alumni Awards highlight profound impact, drive, and commitment of UMBC alumni and faculty
The UMBC community gathered in the Linehan Concert Hall on October 6 for a moving ceremony to honor the profound impacts and achievements of nine outstanding Retrievers at the 2016 UMBC Alumni...
Posted: October 14, 2016, 8:36 PM
UMBC physicist Sebastian Deffner reimagines the future of computing with biology in mind
“There is no free lunch,” in quantum computing, says Sebastian Deffner, a new assistant professor of physics at UMBC. Every uptick in a computer’s speed, accuracy, or memory comes at the cost of...
Posted: October 14, 2016, 5:35 PM
UMBC faculty discuss state of the presidential campaign in local and national media
With just three weeks to go before Election Day, UMBC faculty have been in the news discussing the state of the presidential campaign. Kimberly Moffitt, associate professor of American studies,...
Posted: October 14, 2016, 3:12 PM
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