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Alexis “Ally” Kocerhan B.A., Theatre; B.A., Gender and Women’s Studies Cum Laude Hometown: Pasadena, Maryland Plans: M.A. in Aesthetics & Politics at California Institute of the Arts...

UMBC faculty, students, alumni, and community partners gathered in the University Ballroom April 20, 2016 for “A Look Ahead XIX: Explorations in Transformative Research,” a day of research talks,...

More than 1,000 speakers representing 50 countries gathered in Baltimore for the TESOL 2016 International Convention from April 5-8, 2016. The gathering celebrated the 50th anniversary of the...

Teri Rueb, assistant professor of visual arts, is creating an interactive Baltimore City tour. “Teri Rueb: Listening to Baltimore” “If these walls could speak, what tales they could tell”...

Funding for individual artists is often scarce and always highly competitive, but the Baltimore-Washington region is fortunate to have both state and private organizations awarding funds directly...

Cybersecurity concerns continue to make headlines, including the recent attacks at MedStar Health and fraudulent tax returns being filed for Baltimore City employees. In response to this, many...

Where many see waste, UMBC’s Lee Blaney, assistant professor of chemical, biochemical and environmental engineering, sees opportunity. As Blaney explains in Chemical & Engineering News,...

UMBC is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. Though the university is still fairly young, our community is diverse and growing. You can find members of our almost 70,000 alumni all over the...

“We hope you will leave inspired and with new views about what is possible,” said Karl V. Steiner, vice president for research, as he welcomed the audience of  “Seeing Science: Photography,...

Four UMBC undergraduates in Kevin Omland’s biological sciences lab have won Youth Activity Fund Grants from the Explorers Club to support team-based field research on the critically endangered,...