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Each year, the UMBC Alumni Association presents awards to honor alumni for their professional and personal achievements and service to the University.   Learn more about our past award winners....

A Formula for Success He’s a celebrated novelist whose second novel, The Age of Shiva (W.W. Norton & Company), will be released in February. But he’s also a mathematics professor who...

Alumni Honored for Their Achievements The UMBC Alumni Association will present awards to six distinguished alumni who are leaders in their fields at the 2008 Outstanding Alumni Awards...

UMBC Peaceworker Alumni Remain Engaged in Baltimore Communities While nearly 85 percent of UMBC’s Shriver Peaceworker Fellows originally come from outside the Baltimore region, 60...

Honoring Excellence UMBC’s science, technology and engineering community ended 2007 on a prestigious note as five faculty members were named as fellows or board members of international...

National Society of Black Engineers Chapter Excels in Academic Competition While UMBC is known for its accomplished chess team, another campus group is gaining acclaim for blending the life...

Flag Football Heads to National Championship In a year of athletic achievements on the varsity level, it is only fitting that success on the intramural level would follow. On the heels of a...

UMBC Faculty Violinist Airi Yoshioka Honored for Music Education and Outreach Assistant Professor of Music Airi Yoshioka was recently honored with the McGraw-Hill Companies’ Robert...

UMBC Students Collaborate with Elementary and High School Students to Map the Community Fourteen UMBC cartography and graphic design students are collaborating with seven elementary and high...

UMBC Faculty and Staff Experts Discuss �Mental Illness and the Campus Community� UMBC faculty and staff experts from across the campus will discuss “Mental Illness and the Campus Community,”...