UMBC News and Magazine Headlines

UMBC professor of psychology Robert Provine’s “small science” makes big strides in explaining human behavior. By Chelsea Haddaway Twenty five right-handed UMBC students sit cross-legged in...

America’s urban landscapes have long been a battleground in wars against bedbugs, roaches, rats and flies. In a new book, UMBC professor Dawn Biehler traces that conflict’s history across...

Team Player – Stephanie Hill ’86, computer science and economics Composition as Conversation – James Polchin ’89, political science and English A Sense of Play – Kathleen Warnock ’80,...

Christine Ferrera, Google Art Video, Video Still, Dimensions variable Friday, June 21 at 8:00 p.m., Between You and Me, an exhibition by Coordinator/Producer of the New Media Studio, Christine...

BLADE RUNNERS On a Thursday night at the Retriever Activities Center, amidst a hard-fought pickup game of basketball  and  wrestling practice on large mats, a group clad in loose-fitting,...

Donald F. Norris, professor and chair of public policy at UMBC, has published an op-ed in today’s Baltimore Sun that gives a sense of scale to Joe Flacco’s $20 million Ravens contract in relation...

“Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown and Howard County Executive Ken Ulman shook up Maryland’s 2014 gubernatorial race by announcing they will run as a ticket for the Democratic nomination in 2014. Politically...

Yesterday, Maryland State Senator Allan Kittleman ’81, political science, launched his campaign for Howard County Executive. He is the first to announce his candidacy for county executive, a...

In his junior year at UMBC, Collin Wojciechowski ’13, political science, represented nearly 180,000 students within the University System of Maryland (USM) as their sole student representative on...

FROM: Freeman Hrabowski, President, and Philip Rous, Provost TO: The UMBC Community RE: New Grants from the Hrabowski Fund for Innovation We are delighted to announce the second set of...