UMBC News and Magazine Headlines

K. Jill Barr, assistant dean for Graduate Enrollment Management, recently returned from a consulting trip to Qatar University. Barr was asked by the American Bar Association to provide guidance on...

Ellen Handler Spitz, honors college professor of visual arts, recently returned from Belgrade, Serbia, where she spoke on her book “Art and Psyche.”  The book was recently translated to Serbian....

Madeline Hall ’12, geography and environmental systems, is featured in the documentary Circus Dreams, which will air on Maryland Public Television on April 9 at 10 p.m. Circus Dreams documents a...

The March issue of Birding features the work of Kevin Omland, an associate professor of biology. Kevin Omland The author, Paul Hess writes that, Omland and his colleagues, “take an opposite view...

The Baltimore Sun and the Washington Times covered the UMBC chess team this week as they competed in the 2012 President’s Cup. The team tied with the University of Texas at Dallas for second...

Constantine Vaporis, professor of history and director of the Asian studies program, will participate in a panel disccusion at the Freer Gallery on Saturday, May 5 as part of the “articulations”...

As election season moves into high gear, UMBC faculty are providing media with insight into both local and national political developments. Laura Hussey, assistant professor of political...

The Washington Post this weekend featured a reflection on the turbulent development of Nationals Park, home to the Washington Nationals. The article concluded with a comment by UMBC economics...

UMBC and Marie desJardins appeared in the New York Times. The article, “Computer Science for the Rest of Us,” describes the idea that all students should learn how to ‘think computationally’ and...

Bill Shewbridge, director of UMBC’s New Media Studio, spoke to Urbanite about the role technology plays on campus and in the lives of students. “There is a tendency to think that students are...