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From Diane Lee, Dean of Undergraduate Education Thank you for your outpouring of compassion and support for the Meyerhoff Scholars Program since I shared the sad news about the passing of our...

UMBC earned an Honorable Mention on the Princeton Review’s list, “Top Undergraduate Schools to Study Video Game Design for 2012.” The list salutes 32 undergraduate schools and 18 graduate...

AP’s latest coverage of Maryland’s same-sex marriage bill focuses on both Gov. O’Malley’s message in signing the legislation and the referendum effort now underway to repeal it. Donald Norris,...

“As Maryland and Washington join six other states in approving same-sex marriage, it’s clear that the era of politicians exploiting the issue for political game appears over,” argues UMBC...

EHS Search and Rescue Field Training 2011 When he retired this week from Howard County’s fire service, as the department’s deputy chief for operations, Charles Sharpe told the Baltimore Sun that...

The Hilltop Institute at UMBC — a non-partisan health research organization dedicated to improving the health and wellbeing of vulnerable populations — has released a new issue brief in a series...

Christopher Corbett, professor of the practice of English, laments the passing of one of Baltimore’s eccentric citizens in his latest column for the back page of Baltimore Style magazine. “…when...

“It’s the height of cold and flu season, with people coughing and sneezing and blowing their noses (not to mention their germs) every which way,” reports MSNBC’s “Body Odd” blog. But not all...

The “Children’s Lives at Colonial London Town” project, which was developed by UMBC’s Center for History Education’s “Making American History Master Teachers in Anne Arundel County” program, is...

L-R: Atom Zerfas, Tony Deering, Kevin Yang '07, Katelyn Niu '05, and Lynn Deering celebrate the end of UMBC's Exceptional by Example Campaign. Junior Atom Zerfas is the quintessential UMBC...