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Christopher Corbett, professor of the practice in the English Department, spoke June 25 at the Western Writers of America annual convention on the story of the Pony Express. Western Writers of...

UMBC President Freeman A. Hrabowski, III, takes your questions. Q. UMBC is about to embark on a major renovation of the entrance to campus that will transform the way that alumni and visitors –...

A public research university such as UMBC has to be many things at once – and touch as many lives in a productive way as it can. At the center of its mission is teaching. New generations of...

A GRAND ENTRANCE The UMBC community – as well as visitors to campus – will have to pardon some dust and altered traffic patterns over the next two years. But it’s all for a good cause: a...

Mary Volkman ’92, English, is a Baltimore native who writes fiction under the pen name “Margo Christie.” Her first novel, These Days: A Tale of Nostalgia on Baltimore’s Block, relies not only on...

KEEP THE PERFECT BEAT With Steven McAlpine, assistant director of interdisciplinary studies and percussionist with Straight Up Tribal Back in 2008, Steven McAlpine decided that UMBC needed...

CALM IN A STORM It was the middle of the night in November 2013, just after Typhoon Haiyan struck, when Sako Narita ’04, interdisciplinary studies (international emergency health services),...

Several recent tragedies, including the January 2014 shooting at The Mall in Columbia in Howard County, have been linked to mental illness. Jason Schiffman, an associate professor of psychology,...

ESTONIAN EXCELLENCE There isn’t an NCAA in Estonia. No college recruiters or flashy promoters. So back in 2011, rising UMBC senior Lauri Kaei had to get onto the radar of UMBC men’s and women’s...

Robert Deluty, associate dean of the graduate school, has published a new volume of poetry, “Gifts in Disguise.” In his review, Joseph DeVitis writes: “Robert Deluty’s poems give us quick, yet...