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What’s your UMBC story? And what part does your UMBC story play in the narrative of a pioneering university that is now 50 years old? So much of what we have learned at UMBC Magazine over the...

Story Time UMBC celebrates its formal 50th anniversary in September. But two years ago, before the calendar turned to 2015, a small team on campus began creating a new way for UMBC alumni and...

UMBC researcher Govind Rao wants to bring the bounty of the information age to a drugstore near you. By Joab Jackson ’90 “You’re watching history being made.” I am in the basement of UMBC’s...

Create Your Own Theatre Festival —With Zach Michel ’09, geography and environmental systems, president of the Charm City Fringe Festival Zach Michel ’09, geography and environmental systems,...

UMBC’s reputation as a place where companies find terrific employees didn’t come out of thin air. The quality of its students and the reputation of its faculty for innovative teaching and...

Safety First It happened at Target. It happened at JPMorgan Chase. It happened at the federal Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Hackers have relentlessly pilfered millions of social...

The ways that universities physically store knowledge – and allow the community to access it –are at the heart of the enterprise of learning and research. What is a university without its library...

The ways that universities physically store knowledge – and allow the community to access it –are at the heart of the enterprise of learning and research. What is a university without its library...

Susan Schneider, business services specialist in biological sciences, grew up nearby and watched UMBC grow. Over the past 42 years, Susan Schneider has worked at UMBC, left, and returned several...

Betty Glascoe Hired a few weeks after UMBC’s first graduating class emerged into the working world, Betty Glascoe was the trailblazer in career services at UMBC. In her 35 years at the...