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Universities are filled with people who have great ideas. In fact, the view that universities act as a repository of great ideas has a firm hold on the public imagination. Students go to classes...

PHONE HOME Once in a while you might get a call asking for your support for UMBC and its mission. The person on the other end of the line? A UMBC student. Five nights a week, UMBC students...

UMBC alumni, professors and students find new spaces and places for innovation. Photography by Marlayna Demond ’11 * * * * Much of the journey of creation takes place in the space of the...

The habitat in central Maryland where Jill Sisson Quinn ’97, English grew up isn’t very different from the habitat in central Wisconsin where she lives now. The birds, insects, and trees are...

Professors Amy Hurst and Shaun Kane have created a community that helps  open up the world for people with disabilities through assistive technology. By Kathryn Masterson Every Monday morning...

With Andrew Vaché, laboratory specialist, department of physics By Meredith Purvis We are made of star stuff, as scientist Carl Sagan once wrote, so it’s no wonder we are fascinated by the...

It’s almost two weeks till Christmas, and Chief Ike’s Mambo Room in the Adams Morgan neighborhood of D.C. has hung up its stockings. There are loads of them—maybe two dozen, dangling out of...

Finding Love at UMBC By Elizabeth Heubeck ’91 * * * * Maybe it was a first date at Quadmania. A coffee at the Commuter Cafe. A pizza at Sorrento’s. Ask those who’ve studied and worked at...

Catonsville resident Gus Russo ’72, political science is married to the mob. And to U.S. history. He is a writer and investigative reporter specializing in the shadowy netherworld of American...

THE BODY ELECTRIC Monitoring significant developments in a patient’s health outside a hospital can be challenging, but two UMBC researchers – Tinoosh Mohsenin and Gymama Slaughter – have won...