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Associate Professor of English Piotr Gwiazda has just published his translation of Polish writer Grzegorz Wroblewski’s book of prose poems KOPENHAGA. This project was awarded a grant from the PEN...

Dr. Amanda M. Knapp’s research entitled, “The Relationship Between Best Online Instructional Practices and Undergraduate Student Perceptions of Instructor Credibility at a Large, Four-Year,...

Tom Beck, Chief Curator in the Library, has been selected as the chair of the Maryland State Historical Records Advisory Board. Having served as co-chair with Ed Papenfuse, now retired as...

Hilltop Senior Regulatory and Policy Advisor, Maansi Raswant, JD, gave a presentation titled The Affordable Care Act’s Impact on Small Business to the Catonsville Chamber of Commerce on October...

English Associate Professor Helen Burgess has been selected for a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) review panel for the Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant Program. The grant program...

Hey Retrievers, just a friendly reminder to turn your clocks back this weekend. And you know what that means… an extra hour of sleep! P.S. UMBC is full of helpful tips and tricks!

A movie released last month tells the story of Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York who was kidnapped and sold into slavery.  “Twelve Years a Slave” powerfully depicts that...

The Power of Images UMBC�s Imaging Research Center employs innovative strategies to help researchers across the disciplines share their vision. For 25 years, UMBC�s Imaging Research Center...

This November, the David Mikow Gallery—which is run by UMBC professor of political science Carolyn Forestiere—will host its first theatre performance. The play, “comfort/drones” is an original by...

Radishes: They’re not just for salad anymore. In fact, they may be useful for controlling runoff into the Chesapeake. Stuart Schwartz, senior scientist with UMBC’s Center for Urban Environmental...