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Attending college these days is expensive. You’ve got tuition, room and board, books and computers to buy — and that’s not even counting late night pizza runs! Even at a state school like UMBC,...

Ellen Handler Spitz, honors college professor of visual arts, discussed the young adult novel Jepp, Who Defied the Stars, byKatherine Marsh, in her latest column in the New Republic. The...

Jesica Berman, professor of English, recently gave a talk at Vanderbilt University on entitled, “Documentary Interruptions: Virginia Woolf’s Three Guineas and the Media of War.”  The talk was part...

TO: The UMBC Community FROM: Larrabee Strow, Research Professor of Physics, and Sergio DeSouza Machado, Research Assistant Professor of Physics We are deeply saddened to report that Scott...

UMBC’s alumni live and travel all over the world doing fun, amazing things! And UMBC Magazine wants to showcase this. That’s where the Roving Retriever project comes in. Next time you travel to...

Left to Right: Bill Soltesz ’72 (SGA Pres), Manus O’Donnell ’72 (SGA & Retriever officer), John Taylor ’72, Mike Runge ’72 (SGA Treasurer). 40th Reunion at G&M Restaurant, June 15, 2012....

TO: The UMBC Community FROM: Larrabee Strow, Research Professor of Physics, and Sergio DeSouza Machado, Research Assistant Professor of Physics We are deeply saddened to report that Scott...

On Tuesday, Nov. 6, Marylanders voted to extend in-county/in-state tuition at local community colleges and public universities to undocumented immigrants who graduate from Maryland high schools...

William R. Soltesz ’72, financial economics and mathematics, one of UMBC’s early Student Government Association presidents, passed away on September 13 at his home in New Jersey. He was 62 years...

If you’re on campus regularly, it’s easy to see the excitement building this semester about both the 20th anniversary of Dr. Freeman Hrabowski’s presidency here and the launch of the Hrabowski...