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UMBC: A True Inter-Arts Experience

A True Inter-Arts Experience Known throughout Maryland as a beacon for innovation, avant-garde collaboration and local outreach, Baltimore Dance Project provokes and enraptures new and loyal...

Posted: February 11, 2013, 5:00 AM

Thomas Schaller, Political Science, in the Baltimore Sun

“The desire to empower citizens directly is alluring in principle but can be very problematic in practice,” writes UMBC political science professor Thomas F. Schaller in his latest Baltimore Sun...

Posted: February 7, 2013, 9:26 PM

Manil Suri, Mathematics, in the News

Mathematics Professor Manil Suri has been in the news recently, as his latest novel, “The City of Devi,” hits bookstore shelves. On Wednesday, February 6, the Baltimore City Paper published a...

Posted: February 6, 2013, 5:27 PM

Brian Neller Named America East Player of the Week

Cambridge, Mass.- UMBC senior guard Brian Neller has been named America East Conference Men’s Basketball Player of the Week for games ending Feb. 3, 2013. Neller netted a heavily-contested...

Posted: February 6, 2013, 3:19 PM

Young Fresh Fellow – Matthew Sherman ’08, INDS

Getting healthy is an American obsession. And Matthew Sherman ’08, interdisciplinary studies, is at the forefront of a growing movement that may help make that arduous task easier and more...

Posted: February 5, 2013, 8:44 PM

Up On the Roof – Winter 2013

UMBC President Freeman A. Hrabowski, III, takes your questions. Q. With the many tools needed for success as president of a university, what’s that one thing you wish you’d known before you...

Posted: February 5, 2013, 8:42 PM

To You – Winter 2013

UMBC boasts an amazing faculty, and one of the great pleasures of editing this magazine is getting to know many of them and bring the work they do to a much wider audience of alumni and other...

Posted: February 5, 2013, 8:38 PM

The Power of Tri – Randianne Leyshon ’09, MLL

Studying a language not only expands your mind, but it expands your circle of friends to far-flung lands and even closer to home, as alumna Randianne Leyshon ’09, modern languages and linguistics,...

Posted: February 5, 2013, 8:35 PM