UMBC News and Magazine Headlines

UMBC Mama�s Boys Celebrate Five-Year Anniversary When they entered UMBC as freshmen, Jordan Hadfield ’07 and James “Jeeves” Murphy ’08 were searching for the right singing group. Both had...

UMBC Named One of Nation�s �Best Value� Public Universities The Princeton Review has included UMBC in its “Best Value Colleges for 2009” list. UMBC is one of 50 public institutions in...

ACTiVATE Program Success Sparks National Award, Additional Funding In just three years, UMBC’s ACTiVATE program has trained 70 female entrepreneurs who have formed 12 new companies. This...

UMBC Team Rallies to Win �Final Four of College Chess� With a final-round surge against its archrival, the UMBC chess team emerged once again as the undisputed kings of the collegiate game by...

UMBC�s Champion Twirler The grace of a ballerina. The poise of an equestrian rider. The flexibility of a gymnast. Those are the qualities baton twirlers like Stasi Kowalewski ’10 need to...

Venus, If You Will Many theatre companies are born out of a mixture of inspiration and frustration. Take The Venus Theatre in Laurel, for instance. When its founder, Deborah Randall ’94,...

Weidong Zhu Recognized for Engineering Innovations Have you ever wondered how engineers can tell if a structure needs repairs? Weidong Zhu, professor of mechanical engineering at UMBC, is...

Wired Watchdog of the Waterways Claire Welty watched a thunderstorm roll in from the west. The network of monitors tracking Gwynns Falls streams began to react, tracking the Baltimore area’s...

Your Sneaker, Your Self UMBC attracts students from many corners of the globe. And sneaker artist and media and communications major Martin Figueroa ’11, has figured out a way that these...

The UMBC Athletic Hall of Fame was instituted in 1970’s, and has grown to include 96 members. Hall of Famers are chosen by a committee of athletic alumni based on their excellence on the fields...