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Scholarship Success: Paige Khoury '12

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...

Posted: June 10, 2012, 6:51 PM

Scholarship Success: Paige Khoury ’12

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...

Posted: June 10, 2012, 6:51 PM

A SIRI-ous Mind

British writer and scientist Arthur C. Clarke once wrote that “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” And for many of us, that’s exactly how the beeps and pings...

Posted: June 8, 2012, 12:07 AM

Gray New World

Students in the Erickson School’s Project 2061 class have high expectations for technology and its power to meet human needs. Working across disciplines, they’ve created new possibilities for the...

Posted: June 7, 2012, 8:27 PM

Search Engineers

British writer and scientist Arthur C. Clarke once wrote that “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” And for many of us, that’s exactly how the beeps and pings...

Posted: June 7, 2012, 1:33 PM

Up on the Roof – Summer 2012

UMBC President Freeman A. Hrabowski, III, takes your questions. Q. What books have you been reading of late? And how do you prefer to read: ebooks or paper? — James Polchin ’89, political...

Posted: June 6, 2012, 3:31 PM

The News – Summer 2012

TAKE A SEAT The first phase of UMBC’s Performing Arts and Humanities Building is on schedule for its Fall 2012 opening. Soon, the departments of English and theatre will move into the building –...

Posted: June 6, 2012, 3:29 PM

Over Coffee with Provost Rous

On July 1, Philip Rous will become provost at UMBC after serving for a year as the interim provost. In his 22 years at the university, Rous has filled key leadership positions – including...

Posted: June 6, 2012, 3:28 PM