UMBC News and Magazine Headlines

Now in its second year, The Shriver Center’s SUCCESS Program was featured in a recent Southern Maryland Online article and Capital News Service video. SUCCESS (Students United for...

Congratulations to the UMBC men’s cross country team on winning their first America East championship since 2005! From the news release: Following a third place finish at last year’s America...

Congratulations to the UMBC men’s cross country team on winning their first America East championship since 2005! From the news release: Following a third place finish at last year’s America...

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...