UMBC News and Magazine Headlines

Robert Houston, photographer “What we take for granted now has not always been that way. Someone had to pay for that. It cost dearly. Some people gave their lives and careers,” says Robert...

Today’s Baltimore Sun features a front-page story about students in two UMBC BreakingGround courses and projects through which people from UMBC are solving problems and working with community...

In the current legislative session, Maryland Republicans plan to focus on transportation funding, school safety and the budget, writes reporter Daniel Leaderman in the Gazette. Donald F. Norris,...

Joshua Budich ’00 is one of a small group of artists selected to create original screen prints inspired by the nine best picture nominees in this year’s Academy Awards. Budich, who created artwork...

UMBC alumnus and staff member Kevin Gibbons-O’Neill ’86, economics, shared this photo of himself and his team of family and friends shortly after emerging from the cold waters of the Chesapeake...

Silver Linings Playbook illustration by Joshua Budich. Every so often, we’ll chat with an alum about what they do and how they got there. Today, we’re talking with independent illustrator Joshua...

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...

“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...

Lisa Moren, Associate Professor of Visual Arts will be speaking as part of a distinguished speaker lecture series for Hexagram-Concordia, a “center for research-creation in media arts and...

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...