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UMBC Research Proves Valuable to Large Companies

One of UMBC’s top revenue-generating technologies has just been licensed for the third time, this time to GE Healthcare. This demonstrates that the University’s strong efforts to commercialize its...

Posted: September 28, 2011, 8:22 PM

Image Transfer: Pictures in a Remix Culture (10/6-12/10)

The Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture (CADVC) presents “Image Transfer: Pictures in a Remix Culture,” curated by Sara Krajewski and co-organized by Independent Curators International and...

Posted: September 28, 2011, 2:20 PM

Roy T. Meyers, Political Science, in the Washington Post

In the face of another political stalemate on Capitol Hill, Washington Post columnist Ezra Klein turned to Roy T. Meyers, professor of political science, to understand the possible impact of a...

Posted: September 27, 2011, 4:05 PM

Christopher Corbett, English, in the Baltimore Sun

Christopher Corbett, professor of the practice of English, may be from Maine, but the author enjoys traveling through America’s West and is currently teaching a course entitled “America’s Road...

Posted: September 27, 2011, 1:19 PM

Michael Fallon, English, in Baltimore Magazine

Baltimore magazine recently reviewed “Since You Have No Body,” the latest book of poetry from Michael Fallon, senior lecturer of English. “These interrelated, elegiac poems dance around the...

Posted: September 27, 2011, 1:13 PM

Catching the Weather Bug: Bob Marshall '88, Mech Eng

Do you think clouds are cool? Have a penchant for prognostication? Well, Bob Marshall ’88, mechanical engineering, is your man. A story in the Washington Post says Marshall — owner of Earth...

Posted: September 26, 2011, 6:12 PM

100,000 Stories: A Selection of Women Photographers (9/28)

“100,000 Stories, a Selection of Women Photographers from the Photography Collections, in Honor of the 20th Anniversary of the UMBC Women’s Center” will open for public viewing on Wednesday,...

Posted: September 21, 2011, 8:29 PM

Ellen Handler Spitz, Honors College, in the New Republic

“By now, hundreds of children’s books about the Holocaust have been published—fiction and non-fiction, as well as hybrids of varying quality: books about hiding, about substitute parents, about...

Posted: September 21, 2011, 6:35 PM

Eric Tedrow ’13, Psychology, on Patch.com

The Crofton Patch reports that Eric Tedrow ’13, psychology, is the driving force behind a new skate park that will soon open in Crofton. Tedrow, a rollerblader, saw the need for a place where...

Posted: September 20, 2011, 7:45 PM