UMBC News and Magazine Headlines

F. Chris Curran, an assistant professor in UMBC’s School of Public Policy, has been named an Emerging Education Policy Scholar for 2015-16 by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute and the American...

Photo by Marlayna Demond ’11. This week signaled the end of another semester at UMBC, and what better way to end the semester than with commencement! On December 16 and 17, our newest alumni...

Over the course of the fall semester, UMBC humanities students in an American studies course taught by Associate Professor and Chair Nicole King worked on the “Bromo Speaks” project, which...

NASA scientists and researchers released data showing that physical processes like meteoroid stream impacts, helium and hydrogen particles from the sun, and thermal absorption impact the...

The Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) connected to NOAA’s Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) is NASA’s new tool to provide scientists with a unique perspective of the Earth’s clouds,...

UMBC celebrated the accomplishments of over 1,000 new Retriever alumni at 2015 Winter Commencement, with a graduate ceremony held on December 16 and undergraduate ceremony on December 17. The...

UMBC has again been named a Best Value College for 2016 by Kiplinger’s Personal Finance, appearing on both the Best Value Public University list and “top 300” national Best Value University list....

A U.S. News article on strategies to attract diverse students to STEM fields, and support their success in those fields, highlights the new STEM BUILD at UMBC program, which launched with its...

Two posters created by UMBC student researchers were highlighted during an informational hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, December 16, focused on the Information Security...

We’re proud of all our alumni and love to keep up with all the amazing things they’re doing in their communities. Today, we check in on two biology alums to see what they’ve been up to since...