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Robert Provine, psychology, has an essay in a newly published collection entitled This Will Make You Smarter. The book is the latest in a series by the website Edge.org, which focuses on an annual...

Maryland State Delegate John Olszewski, a Ph.D. student in public policy at UMBC, spoke out about his vote on Maryland’s same-sex marriage bill in the Baltimore Sun this weekend. Olszewski, 29,...

Dr. Robert K. Webb (family photo, published in the Washington Post) From Marjoleine Kars, Chair of the History Department I regret to inform the campus that Robert K. Webb died on February 14....

From Marjoleine Kars, Chair of the History Department I regret to inform the campus that Robert K. Webb died on February 14. Born in 1922, Bob Webb was long the preeminent American scholar of...

Our New Heroes With a cape draped over his rugby uniform, Jeremy Brickey clutches the complete works of Shakespeare and smiles for a camera. No, this isn’t an embarrassing initiation to the...

In an article about the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, The Washington Post mentioned For All the World to See, an exhibition organized in partnership...

Michael Fallon, senior lecturer of English, will be a featured poet at the ninth annual CityLit Festival. Presented by CityLit Project and Pratt Library, the festival takes place on Saturday,...

Marko H. Bulmer is the Director of the Geophysical Flow Observatory, JCET at UMBC. On January 4, 2012, I traveled to Haiti to join the Brazilian Military Contingent contributing to the United...

Haven’t been on campus in a while? Well, now it doesn’t matter how many miles may separate you from your alma mater. Thanks to a collaboration between UMBC’s admissions department and the IRC...

In August 2011, hundreds of Environment Canada scientists and staff working on environmental monitoring received notice their positions were targeted for elimination. Ray Hoff, Professor of...