UMBC News and Magazine Headlines

What do you need to do to put up offshore wind turbines? You need to know where the wind is. That’s what Ruben Delgado, a faculty research assistant in UMBC’s Joint Center for Earth Systems...

“After touring the construction site for his school’s new performing arts building, Kabish Shah could see himself working at the construction management and general contracting company and applied...

“At the University of Maryland, Baltimore County’s incubator for cybersecurity start-ups there’s a definite government focus. Companies can participate in a federal contracting institute, and some...

Professor Alan Sherman received two research awards from the National Science Foundation to support work at UMBC on cybersecurity. Sherman is a co-principal investigator on a two year, $300K...

Dr. Richard Forno, Director of UMBC’s Graduate Cybersecurity Program and Assistant Director of the UMBC Center for Cybersecurity, appeared on WEAA’s ‘The Marc Steiner Show’ as part of a long-form...

“Maryland Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler came under fire Tuesday for comments that his top rival in the Democratic primary for governor is running on little besides his African-American...

Sigma Phi Omega (SPO) is the national academic honor society in gerontology, for professionals who work with or on behalf of older persons. The UMBC chapter of SPO, Delta Lambda, has continued to...

Ellen Handler Spitz, Professor of Visual Arts, gave a talk on the power of illustration in story-telling called “Homage to Illustration: Story-telling in Paint and Marble” at the education and...

Former UMBC women’s lacrosse player Jen Kasper O’Brien ’09, American studies, has been named the head coach of the new Virginia Commonwealth University’s women’s lacrosse program, set to start...

A new Baltimore Sun column by UMBC’s Thomas F. Schaller, professor of political science, examines last week’s rejection of President Barack Obama’s proposal “to exchange a cut in corporate tax...