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Finding a Way Home

UMBC alumna Mary Slicher founded one of Baltimore’s leading advocacy groups for the homeless forty years ago. Now her organization is finding a new home of its own. By Elizabeth Heubeck ’91...

Posted: June 13, 2013, 7:18 PM

Curious About Us

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...

Posted: June 13, 2013, 7:17 PM

Pest Panic

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...

Posted: June 13, 2013, 7:15 PM

Alumni Stories

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,...

Posted: June 13, 2013, 6:56 PM

At Play – Summer 2013

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,...

Posted: June 12, 2013, 7:43 PM

Donald Norris, Public Policy, in the Baltimore Sun

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...

Posted: June 12, 2013, 4:49 PM

Thomas Schaller, Political Science, in the Baltimore Sun

“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...

Posted: June 12, 2013, 4:42 PM