UMBC News and Magazine Headlines

Biologists at UMBC were on the hunt for female songbirds. The world sat up and took notice when they found them. By Joel N. Shurkin Illustrations by David Plunkert Once upon a time – 60...

For 125 years, Baltimore’s Sparrows Point Steel Mill employed tens of thousands of steel workers and was a center of community life in the region. At one point the mill was the world’s largest...

UMBC goalkeeper and men’s soccer co-captain Billy Heavner ’17, financial economics, has been selected to the 2015 Academic All-America Division I Men’s Soccer First Team by the College Sports...

With the flurry of recent internet hacks, how safe is the information that we post online? Who will develop the innovations needed to secure our data in cyberspace? In a new Baltimore Sun op-ed,...

NASA’s Operation IceBridge, a survey of polar ice, carried out parallel flights in the north and south poles for the first time in seven years. The mission to the Antarctic Peninsula recorded a...

Welcome back! We hope you had a restful holiday weekend. There are plenty of great alumni events coming up in the next month, so take a look here! CAREER WEBINARS Impressions: The Power of...

A National Journal article published November 23 examines why, even with the recent boom in podcasts, people of color are underrepresented among podcasters. Radio expert Jason Loviglio, associate...

We here at the Alumni Association want to wish you and yours a very happy Thanksgiving! It’s a time of year to reconnect with loved ones and reflect on what we’re truly thankful for. In our case,...

A recent program produced by Maryland Public Television about college affordability featured UMBC student Liz Winters ’13, psychology, and current master’s student in industrial and organizational...

In conjunction with the inauguration of University of Pennsylvania’s new Center for the Integrated Study of Japan, Constantine Vaporis presented an invited talk that focused on his research about...