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Each year, the Alumni Association Scholarship program helps amazing students succeed at UMBC. Over the next few weeks, we’ll be sharing some of their stories with you. This week, meet scholarship...

Beth Wells, assistant vice provost for Academic Affairs, earned designation in April as a Board Certified Coach by the Center for Credentialing and Education.

Click on the image above to watch Deanna’s winning video. UMBC recently asked its students a simple question: How does UMBC inspire you? But, instead of essay response customary for scholarship...

Striking the Balance Balance and focus. Those are the keys to success for student athletes. And, judging by their GPA’s, UMBC’s athletes have mastered both. This past fall, the Retrievers’...

Click here to watch a video produced by Maryland Public Television about Kachadourian’s work. Gary Kachadourian ’12, MFA imaging and digital arts, will be participating in the Maryland Art...

Gary Kachadourian ’12, imaging and digital arts, will be participating in the Maryland Art Place’s Young Blood 2012: Work by Recent MFA Graduates exhibition this summer. In addition to...

For Father’s Day 2012, The Baltimore Sun published an essay written by alumnus Seth Sawyers ’99, history, entitled “Driving with Dad.” Sawyers, who teaches essay writing for the English...

Constantine Vaporis, professor of history and director of the Asian studies program, will give a series of lectures onboard the Orion II, an Australian-operated cruise ship, during  a ten-day tour...

The Washington Post published an article by Steven Overly on June 11 detailing the recent partnership between the University of Maryland, College Park and the aerospace and defense technology...

UMBC is proud to announce the appointment of Dr. William LaCourse as Dean of the College of Natural and Mathematical Sciences (CNMS) beginning July 1st, 2012, according a press release by Provost...