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In a City Paper story examining the 10th anniversary of The Transmodern Festival, alum Jaimes Mayhew ’10, MFA imaging and digital arts, weighs in on the annual event’s impact on Baltimore. Mayhew...

Click image to watch movie trailer. A film by Joe Tropea ’06, ’08, history, premiers locally at the Maryland Film Festival next week.  The Baltimore Brew covered the film in a May 1 story...

A film by Joe Tropea ’06 History B.A. and ’08 Historical Studies premiers locally at the Maryland Film Festival next week.  The Baltimore Brew covered the film in a May 1 story entitled “A fiery...

UMBC alumnus Zach Clark ’06, psychology, has been called up by the Baltimore Orioles to join the team for their series with the Seattle Mariners at Safeco Field in Seattle, the organization...

A Year of Questions, A Day of Answers From the enduring popularity of Harry Potter to the intersection of open-source technology and the performing arts, the unique undergraduate research...

Living on a used planet The Anthropocene, �the Age of Man,� has been presented as a story of new and accelerating human impact on Earth’s ecology — a threat to both humanity and the planet — due...

A poem by Lia Purpura, writer-in-residence in English, recently appeared in the “New Yorker.  “Beginning” was published on April 29 and can be read here.

UMBC is a community that gives. Nearly each day in the breezeway next to The Commons, one might stroll by multiple tables occupied by students raising money for this charity or that. Our faculty...

Lindsay DiCuirci, assistant professor of English, has been selected as the Stephen Botein Fellow in the History of the Book in American Culture at the American Antiquarian Society. She will be...

Alumna Kimberly Haines ’12, visual arts, will display a collection of paintings centered around the theme “New Skies” at the David Mikow Art Gallery in Catonsville starting later this week. An...