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At his San Francisco museum, UMBC alumnus Jerry Cimino ’76 makes sure the world is still hep to one of America’s greatest literary movements. By Jenny O’Grady Photos by Mirissa Neff and...

The never-ending battle between advocates of the prescriptive and descriptive schools of language was touched off in the last few weeks, starting with a May 14 article in The New Yorker titled...

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 Melanie Dell...

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 Melanie Dell...

The Shriver Center would like to announce that Mark Shriver will read from his book A Good Man at the Enoch Pratt Library’s Wheeler Auditorium on June 7 at 6:30 p.m. In the intimate portrait of...

Have Ambition, Will Travel For a number of UMBC students, the end of the semester is just the beginning of the adventure. They’ve been invited to the 62nd annual Meeting of the Nobel Laureates,...

Piotr Gwiazda, associate professor of English, read at the Walters Arts Museum on March 10 as part of the Smartish Pace Reading Series. A video of his reading appears below....

On saturday, April 14, Michael Fallon, senior lecturer of English, read at Baltimore’s City Lit festival.  Below is a video of his reading....

News of Rebecca Boehling’s appointment as director of the International Tracing Service (ITS) was been picked up on The Associated Press‘ wire service. The ITS serves victims of Nazi persecutions...

Nicole King, assistant professor of American studies, learned the dangers of texting while walkinghard way according to the story “Texting while walking emerging as possible danger for...