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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...

The Power of Images UMBC�s Imaging Research Center employs innovative strategies to help researchers across the disciplines share their vision. For 25 years, UMBC�s Imaging Research Center...

This November, the David Mikow Gallery—which is run by UMBC professor of political science Carolyn Forestiere—will host its first theatre performance. The play, “comfort/drones” is an original by...

Radishes: They’re not just for salad anymore. In fact, they may be useful for controlling runoff into the Chesapeake. Stuart Schwartz, senior scientist with UMBC’s Center for Urban Environmental...

In his latest opinion column in The Baltimore Sun, Political Science Professor Thomas Schaller responds to an op-ed he wrote last month about the Western Maryland Initiative, an effort that calls...

Home Team Retriever Fever and spirited fans lift UMBC Men�s Soccer to even greater heights. The sun rises and crews get to work cutting the plush Riviera Bermuda grass, repainting lines and...