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Diane Tichnell from the 1970 Skipjack, UMBC’s yearbook. UMBC is a young institution—and not only do we have active alumni from the first four graduating classes still working to make an impact...

Meet Hope Weisman ’14, psychology, M.A. ’18, applied sociology, a Transfer Academic Advocate and member of the UMBC community for 10 years and counting. As a transfer to UMBC herself, Hope has...

Each week, UMBC President Valerie Sheares Ashby invites students to her office hours to chat about their lives and their experiences at UMBC. Today, she’s speaking with Viridiana Colosio-Martinez...

When asked to describe the cinematic masterpiece that is Cocaine Bear, Scott Seiss ’16, media and communication studies, didn’t mince any words to deliver his thoughts on the hit film based on...

When Chris Peregoy ’81, visual and performing arts, M.F.A. ’99, intermedia and digital arts, received a tin full of Christmas cookies from his sister around the year 2000, he immediately dumped...

Three weeks exploring the beautiful, pristine waters of Indonesia to study seagrasses—that was the plan. But before Terry Smith ’00, computer science, could get to work, he had another problem to...

Written by Bob Leamon, research scientist, Partnership for Heliophysics and Space Environment Research (PHaSER), UMBC El Niño is officially here, and while it’s still weak right now, federal...

Written by Meredith Oyen, associate professor of history and Asian studies, UMBC. An encounter in which a Chinese naval ship cut across the path of a U.S. destroyer in the Taiwan Strait on...

On a warm and bright sunny day in April when the trees in Baltimore City’s Patterson Park are changing from bright green buds to full leaf and the birds are competing with the car horns, Viridiana...

What if you could ask yourself a big question and then use your intuition to follow it wherever it led for as long as it took? It would take a certain kind of guts, right? But, with a willingness...