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U.S. News announced its 2023-24 Best Graduate School rankings today, highlighting UMBC graduate programs in a broad range of fields, from public policy and several types of engineering to...

Ellie Bare Degree: B.S., Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Hometown: Sharpsburg, MD Post-grad plans: Postbaccalaureate program, National Institutes of Health Ellie Bare has been a...

Zinedine Partipilo Cornielles Degree: B.S., Financial Economics; B.A., Mathematics Hometown: Barquisimeto, Venezuela Post-grad plans: Predoctoral research fellow Zinedine Partipilo...

In recent years, large, intense wildfires, known as megafires, have increasingly caused severe damage to forests, homes, and crops. In addition to megafires fatally impacting humans and wildlife...

In 2020, Renata Taylor-Smith ’24, theatre, eagerly prepared for her first trip to Munich, Germany to study theatrical lighting design, but a week before she was meant to fly to Germany, her trip...

Meet Rachel Brubaker, M.A. ’00, historical studies, assistant director for grants and program development at the Dresher Center for the Humanities. Brubaker, a self-proclaimed humanities nerd, has...

The University System of Maryland (USM) will formally install Valerie Sheares Ashby as UMBC’s sixth president on April 27, 2023, after UMBC warmly welcomed her to the community last August. A...

On a Friday afternoon in late February, two students hoisted a pair of oversized scissors and cut the ribbon for the space housing one of UMBC’s newest tutoring programs: the Computing Success...

UMBC President Valerie Sheares Ashby has appointed Tanyka M. Barber as the university’s inaugural vice president for institutional equity and chief diversity officer. She will officially join the...

Written by Ramana Vinjamuri, assistant professor of computer science and electrical engineering, UMBC Robots are machines that can sense the environment and use that information to perform an...