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So many of you have found lasting love at UMBC that we decided to extend Valentine’s Day to tell your stories! Here are four more. Michael Glassman ’12, geography and environmental systems, met...

Dedicated staff members are a key element in UMBC’s rise to prominence. Every December, the UMBC community gathers together for the university’s annual Service Awards. It’s an event so large and...

Melanie D. Harrison-Okoro ’11, Ph.D. environmental science, was raised outside Tuskegee, Alabama, where her family taught her to catch bass and catfish on Lake Martin. “My twin sister and I were...

“What is the main reason you are here?” That’s the question Stephen Slowe asks at the end of every training session he holds with the UMBC students who work alongside him as maintenance...

The challenges facing Baltimore City are significant – and have garnered international headlines. But listen to Tom Sadowski ’89, political science and public administration and policy, talk about...

At Homecoming 2015, more than 300 members of the UMBC community (with alumni in the majority) gathered to kick off a more-than-year-long commemoration of the university’s 50th anniversary with an...

Even in its earliest days, UMBC had a bookstore. At the university’s founding, the bookstore was the “go-to” place for the textbooks and course materials students needed to succeed. A university...

UMBC is lauded for its strength in undergraduate teaching and its ability to involve undergraduates in academic research across disciplines. But how was this culture created? Some of it was...

Clolita Vitale ’75, theatre, started her influential career at UMBC as a resident assistant. The UMBC journey of Clolita Vitale ’75, theatre, eventually took her to a top leadership position at...

Ernie Kent ’77, M.P.P. public policy, recently returned to campus to talk about her time as one the first group of 12 students enrolled in UMBC’s public policy master’s program – a group dubbed...