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In the weeks leading up to the Alumni Awards Ceremony, we’ll be profiling each of this year’s honorees in detail here on the blog. Today we’re featuring our Natural and Mathematical Sciences award...

We’d like to take a moment to honor all of our wonderful donors from the past fiscal year, which ended on June 30, 2015. Thanks to your generosity, UMBC continues to grow, and to provide all sorts...

Education In Motion It’s a bright Saturday morning in mid-July, and the first floor of the Fine Arts Building is covered in plastic grocery bags, chicken wire, and paint buckets. A four-person...

UMBC’s Women’s Center Jess Myers and Megan Tagle-Adams were acknowledged by the NWSA Women’s Center Pre-Conference Award Committee with the prestigious Outstanding Achievement Award and Emerging...

One of the things that makes UMBC great is how wonderful our alumni, students, faculty, and staff are. Because of these amazing people, UMBC often finds itself “in the news,” so each week, we’ll...

In an article published September 23 in The Conversation, School of Public Policy Professor John Rennie Short argued that a number of current federal policies, economic practices, and social...

In a recent article posted on Antenna‘s website, Rebecca Adelman, an associate professor of media and communication studies, examined public reaction to the images of Aylan Kurdi. “I am not...

In response to a question posted on Education Week‘s website about universities’ responses to the call to increase diversity of the teaching force, Ramon Goings, program coordinator for the...

In the weeks leading up to the Alumni Awards Ceremony, we’ll be profiling each of this year’s honorees in detail here on the blog. First up is our Outstanding Faculty Award winner, Dr. Tara...

Matty Bell, the 30-year-old protagonist of the novel Waiting for Paint to Dry, is a woman in constant survival mode, a woman, wounded as a girl, who hasn’t fully healed. The novel follows her...