UMBC News and Magazine Headlines

The donor roll for FY12 — which covers giving from July 1, 2011 through June 30, 2012 — is now available online. In addition to a listing of all donors, the donor roll also includes listings of:...

Dan Marohl ’01, geography and environmental systems, has been chosen as a captain and co-captain of Baltimore Bombers lacrosse by his teammates, the Baltimore Sun reports. Read the Baltimore Sun...

Has the promise of e-government fulfilled expectations? Donald F. Norris, professor and chairman of UMBC’s Department of Public Policy, has co-authored a new article in Public Administration...

The Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture’s oral history project, For All the World to Hear: Stories of the Struggle for Civil Rights, is featured on the front page of this month’s Beacon....

Finding Meaning in Math Michele Osherow admits it: she was a math-phobe. As a professor of English and the dramaturge for the Folger Shakespeare Theatre, Osherow had managed to avoid the...

A book by psychology professor Robert Provine, “Curious Behavior: Yawning, Laughing, Hiccupping, and Beyond,” was named by the Library Journal as one of the “Best Books of 2012.” The book is...

Former UMBC baseball standout and newly-drafted Baltimore Oriole pitcher  Zach Clark ’06, psychology, was interviewed this week by the blog Orioles 101. Read the interview here. Clark, who...

When Michael Stovall ’04, Ph.D., public policy, came to UMBC as a graduate student in 1996, he wasn’t just looking for a change of pace. He was ready to change his life. A recent article in the...

In the last week of December, UMBC political science professor Thomas Schaller published a year-in-review in the Baltimore Sun, highlighting Maryland’s legalization of same-sex marriage, the rise...

Every so often, we’ll chat with an alum about what they do and how they got there. Today, we’re talking with Dr. Melanie D. Harrison ’11, Ph.D., Marine and Estuarine Environmental Science, who...