UMBC News and Magazine Headlines

UMBC announced last week a $7.9 million contract with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop technology that would dramatically reduce the time and space needed to...

Photo by Meyerhoff Scholar Tolu Omokehinde ’16 Now celebrating its 25th year, the Meyerhoff Scholars Program boasts more than 800 graduates, many of whom have gone on to pursue careers as...

A group of UMBC theatre alumni have something to say about life in the arts, and they’re saying it with a new Baltimore-based web series, B.F.A. On the group’s Indiegogo fundraising page, they...

Photograph by Josh Sisk In the latest issue of the Baltimore City Paper, Gender and Women Studies professor, Kate Drabinski, pulls back the curtain, giving readers a glimpse into the world of...

Inexcusable Fantasies, written by Susan McCully, theatre, directed by Eve Muson, theatre, and starring McCully and Rachel Hirshorn ’04, theatre, has been selected as one of The Villager‘s featured...

On Friday, Aug. 2, WYPR’s The Signal re-aired last year’s interview with assistant professor of American studies, Nicole King, where she discussed the colorful history of the roadside attraction,...

Applied mathematics, sexuality and food recipes are abound in Metro Weekly’s review of Manil Suri’s third published novel, The City of Devi. Suri’s latest novel visits a futuristic, war-torn...

Yonathan Zohar, professor in the department of marine biotechnology, was featured in the Baltimore City Paper, in Van Smith’s article,The Economy of Scale, A Baltimore lab aims to take the science...

Robert Deluty, associate dean of the graduate school, has published a new book of poetry, “Saluting from the Shore.” In his review, Ronald Pies writes, “Once again, Robert Deluty presents us...

Four UMBC alumni are among the 98 invitees for the 2014 Federation of International Lacrosse (FIL) World Championships, where the U.S. men seek to defend their title in Denver, Colorado on July...