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Alums Help Current Students “Sweeten Up” Their Networks

Nearly 90 current students and UMBC alumni talked life after college at the annual “Sweeten Up Your Network” speed networking event on November 28. Sponsored by the Student Alumni Association, the...

Posted: December 5, 2012, 2:57 PM

Kate Brown, History, in Aeon

The online journal Aeon has published an excerpt from associate professor of history Kate Brown’s forthcoming book Plutopia, which is due out in 2013. “For the past seven years, I have spent a...

Posted: December 4, 2012, 10:01 PM

Caringi Nominated For Soccer News Net College Boot Award

UMBC junior forward Pete Caringi III is among a group of thirty-four of the nation’s top men’s college soccer players who have been named finalists for the 2012 Soccer News Net College Boot award,...

Posted: December 3, 2012, 11:22 PM

Manil Suri, Mathematics, in the Washington Post Magazine

“Hugging Laxmi to his chest, Mr. Garg climbed the ladder propped against the wall of his house. The Devi weighed more than he’d expected,” begins a short story by Manil Suri, professor of...

Posted: December 3, 2012, 10:49 AM

Chinn ’03, Dance, Featured in Gazette

Angel Chinn ’08, dance, was featured in The Gazette this month when her newly formed dance company, NonaLee Dance Theatre, was slated to perform an adventurous, site-specific program at Joe’s...

Posted: November 30, 2012, 8:02 PM

Mapping Baybrook in Baltimore Magazine

What’s Baltimore buzzing about? A fascinating community project from UMBC’s Departments of American Studies and Visual Arts. Students from the multidisciplinary BreakingGround course “Mapping...

Posted: November 30, 2012, 4:54 PM

Christopher Corbett, English, in Style

“I remember Hampden before it was hip,” writes Christopher Corbett, professor and acting chair of English, in his latest column in Baltimore Style magazine.  Forbes and the New York Times have...

Posted: November 30, 2012, 2:01 PM