UMBC News and Magazine Headlines

A new Washington Post poll, published this weekend, explores Marylanders’ views on Governor Martin O’Malley in the context of a potential future run for president. O’Malley received mediocre marks...

Charlotte Keniston, an imaging and digital arts (IMDA) graduate student, has been selected as a featured artist in Maryland Art Place’s upcoming project, THIRTY: 30 Creative Minds Under 30. Find...

A recent visit by students of Mount Hebron High to the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture’s current exhibition, For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights,...

Associated Black Charities CEO Diane Bell-McKoy ’73, sociology, has recently been featured in Essence magazine and the Baltimore Business Journal, her foundation reported. In the March issue of...

Over the last 20 years, Eastern Shore tattoo artist Todd “Noble” Holloway ’92, visual and performing arts, has made a name for himself as a businessman — and a permanent impression on his...

A new USA Today article exploring the impacts of sequestration suggests federal budget cuts designed to save $85 billion in the short term might end up costing the government more money in the...

Back from the Edge Could our global ecosystem be careening towards a cliff? That’s what some scientists think. Erle Ellis, an associate professor of geography and environmental systems at UMBC,...

On March 27th, Dominick Tolli of the American Red Cross visited UMBC to discuss four revolutionary mobile apps his team created to better serve people impacted by natural disasters and other...

Robert Deluty, associate dean of the graduate school, has published a new volume of poetry, The Knife and the Pumpkin.  In his review, Ronald Pies writes: “Robert Deluty’s latest collection...

Sunil Dasgupta, director of UMBC’s political science program at the Universities at Shady Grove and non-resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, has published a new East Asia Forum...