UMBC News and Magazine Headlines

On June 6, Dr. Kimberly Moffitt, Assistant Professor of American Studies, joined Dr. Ivory Toldson, Associate Professor of Counseling Psychology at Howard University and Jeffrey Menzise of the...

Towson University’s new Tiger Arena opens tonight. The arena cost $70 million, funded through $20 million in Towson’s reserve funds, combined with bonds paid back through a student fee set aside...

When Dr. Shlomo Carmi – former Dean of the College of Engineering and Information Technology and professor of mechanical engineering – retired from UMBC this semester, he and his wife Rachel...

Between You and Me, an exhibition by Coordinator/Producer of the New Media Studio, Christine Ferrera ’10 M.F.A., Imaging and Digital Arts, opens Friday, June 21, at 8 p.m. at the Gibbs Street...

In a final goodwill gesture to the Catonsville community, the recently disbanded Woman’s Club of Catonsville has donated $25,000 to establish a new endowment at the University of Maryland,...

UMBC President Freeman A. Hrabowski, III, takes your questions. Q:  I want to thank you for making me proud to have a degree from UMBC. The legacy you are building not only enriches students’...

I am on UMBC’s campus almost every working day. As the editor of UMBC Magazine, that’s not unexpected. It’s my job. But before I became editor, I came back to UMBC a number of times after...

CALL TO HISTORY The proscenium theatre of UMBC’s recently-opened Performing Arts and Humanities Building was perhaps the most appropriate venue for this year’s W. Augustus Low Lecture in...

When Stephanie Hill ’86, computer science and economics, signed up for her first computer programming class at UMBC, it was almost as an afterthought – an elective to fill out the semester. That...

With Michelle Kupiec ’89, interdisciplinary studies, Owner of Kupcakes & Co. by Meredith Purvis America’s craze for cupcakes is still going strong – and why not? The best bakers have...