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As we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day, check out UMBC’s online exhibit “For All the World to See,” which focuses on the civil rights movement. For All the World to See: Visual Culture and...

In his latest op-ed published January 14 in The Baltimore Sun, political science professor Thomas Schaller comments on the current state of today’s media, arguing the most popular stories are ones...

Tim Finin, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, has been appointed as a co-editor of the Viewpoints section of the Communications of the ACM, the monthly magazine of the Association for...

In an op-ed published in The Times of India on January 12, mathematics professor and affiliate professor of Asian studies Manil Suri wrote about the nuclear terrorism threat in South Asia. The...

In an Al Jazeera America op-ed titled “Two decades later, ex-Soviet republics reject absolute independence,” history associate professor Kate Brown writes that a combination of self-governance and...

Mike Adelstein ’96, biochemistry & molecular biology, CEO of Potomac Photonics, recently moved the 31-year-old tech company to bwtech@UMBC. Potomac specializes in microfabrication and can...

Mike Adelstein ’96, biochemistry & molecular biology, CEO of Potomac Photonics, recently moved the 31-year-old tech company to bwtech@UMBC. Potomac specializes in microfabrication and can...

The Right Wavelength UMBC professor Tim Brennan appointed chief economist of the FCC. Public policy and economics professor Tim Brennan has had a distinguished career as an educator,...

Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley is sending his final budget to the General Assembly this week. Political science professor Roy Meyers was a guest on WYPR’s Maryland Morning on January 13th and...

Asian studies program director Constantine Vaporis was recently interviewed in Education About Asia as part of an interview series with recipients of the AAS Franklin Buchanan Prize. Vaporis was...