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Here’s wishing our wonderful alumni a safe and happy holiday season, and a brilliant new year! We look forward to seeing you in 2013!

Craig Saper, professor and chair of Language, Literacy, and Culture (LLC), has been named the Bearman Family Chair in Entrepreneurship. “Dr. Saper is a scholar of large achievement and great...

Craig Saper, professor and chair of Language, Literacy, and Culture (LLC), has been named the Bearman Foundation Chair in Entrepreneurship. “Dr. Saper is a scholar of large achievement and great...

Todd Eberly ’06, Ph.D., on St. Mary’s College faculty page. Todd Eberly ’06, Ph.D. public policy, is living his dream, teaching political science to the students of St. Mary’s College — and...

Isaac Kinde ’05, biological sciences, has been named to Forbes magazine’s “30 Under 30: The Rising Stars Transforming Science And Health” list, a group of young scientists who “reflect the way...

Reprogramming Education In high school, Blossom Metevier stuck to meat-and-potato science courses – physics, biology, chemistry and mathematics. She didn’t even consider computer science. “It...

David Clurman, Assistant Director of Residential Education, was awarded the James Hurd Distinguished Service Award by the Mid-Atlantic Association of College and University Housing Officers...

Timothy J. Brennan, professor of public policy, has been named 2013 recipient of Public Utility Research Center (PURC) Distinguished Service Award for his contributions to the understanding of...

An article in today’s Gazette on what the State of Maryland can expect in Governor Martin O’ Malley’s final two years in office, prior to a possible presidential run, quotes UMBC’s Roy T. Meyers,...

Old Stories, New Media It’s something grade school teachers know intuitively: kids like reading about other kids. So when a three-year grant from the U.S. Department of Education’s Teaching...