UMBC News and Magazine Headlines

In the March 2012 issue of PRISM, the flagship publication for the American Society for Engineering Education profiled UMBC’s President, Freeman Hrabowski. “He just knows the path so many of the...

UMBC professor Roy T. Meyers, political science, offered his budget expertise in this week’s PolitiFact analysis of a claim by Rep. Paul Ryan that “the president has doubled the size of government...

Jen Dress, assistant director of Student Life was honored at the national convention of ACPA College Educators International with the Commission for Student Involvement’s Outstanding Mid-Level...

Christopher Corbett, professor of the practice of English, will give a talk at Baltimore’s City Lit festival on Saturday, April 14. Corbett will join author Arthur Magida to discuss “Literary...

CNN’s “Schools of Thought” blog has featured UMBC students David H. Murray ’14, economics, and Edward Burroughs, who made headlines last week after strong wins in the Prince George’s County Board...

“The president of the Council of Prince George’s County PTAs said her phone has been ringing nonstop since final results from Tuesday’s primary election were reported,” writes Ovetta Wiggins in...

This month, Ellen Handler Spitz’s children’s literature column in The New Republic discusses two books from India as the honors college professor of visual arts examines The Enigma of Karma by...

Seth Sawyers ’99, history, and adjunct faculty in English, has a new essay in the online literary magazine The Millions. This essay, which is a chapter is from his recently completed memoir...

Seth Sawyers ’99, history, and adjunct faculty in English, has a new essay in the online literary magazine The Millions. This essay, which is a chapter is from his recently completed memoir...

In today’s U.S. News article “Why Our Homes Make Us Happy,” UMBC professor Robert Rubinstein (Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology) argues that having a connection to home is important for our...