UMBC News and Magazine Headlines

Filming the “Plight of the Puffins” Puffins: the flighted, more stylish-looking cousins of the penguin. To the island nation of Iceland, they are as culturally significant as blue crabs are to...

Putting Student Research Center Stage • Watch the IRC Fellows’ award winning video UMBC’s Visual Arts Imaging Research Center (IRC) Fellows recently won an animation competition...

Men’s Lacrosse to Dance Again The UMBC men’s lacrosse team completed a miraculous comeback and edged Albany, 14-13, to capture the 2008 America East Conference championship. UMBC posted its...

Men’s Lacrosse Advances to Shot at America East Championship, NCAA Bid Junior attackman Ryan Smith scored 53 seconds into overtime as top-seeded UMBC (ranked 7th nationally in the April 28...

Men’s Lacrosse on a Roll, Ready to Host AEC Championship The men’s lacrosse team (ranked 5th in the country in the April 21, 2008 USILA poll) won its school-record ninth straight game with a...

Student Receives Competitive Scholarship Junior Alex Pyles, the new editor-in-chief of The Retriever Weekly, is extending UMBC’s recent run of NCAA prominence. As Pyles continues to...

Putting Student Research Center Stage The mysteries of autism. The art of animation. A chronicle of a blue-collar Baltimore neighborhood. The potential of rattlesnake venom as a drug delivery...

Putting Student Research Center Stage The mysteries of autism. The art of animation. A chronicle of a blue-collar Baltimore neighborhood. The potential of rattlesnake venom as a drug delivery...

Alumni Create Award Winning Documentary UMBC alumni have created an award winning documentary about Adventures for the Cure’s (AFC) annual bike trip to raise money for diabetes research....

UMBC Scientist Joins NASA Mission Timothy Stubbs, a scientist at UMBC and NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center, has won funding for a project that sounds like equal parts Ray Bradbury and early...