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Writing UMBC’s Next Chapter   Providing a distinctive undergraduate experience and supporting faculty development and research are an important part of UMBC’s strategic planning...

Homeland Security for H20 It’s a post-9-11 scenario that most homeland security experts agree is not a matter of if but when: a “dirty bomb” attack in the United States....

A New Look for UMBC’s Homepage Update: Stepping Back and Looking Forward (9/8/05) Okay, we heard you, and here are ways you said the new UMBC homepage and website could be...

Homeland Security for H20 It’s a post-9-11 scenario that most homeland security experts agree is not a matter of if but when: a “dirty bomb” attack in the United States. Technically...

A New Look for UMBC’s Homepage Update: Stepping Back and Looking Forward (9/8/05) Okay, we heard you, and here are ways you said the new UMBC homepage and website could be...

Making the Most of Summer   Employers are more interested than ever in hiring UMBC talent: this year, the Shriver Center coordinated and secured nearly 800 internship and co-op placements...

Researching a Cure for Alzheimer’s   In UMBC’s recently renovated Chemistry Building, Jesse Karr, a chemistry and biochemistry Ph.D. student, is standing over a brand-new electron...

Inside the New York Times Last semester, UMBC Retriever Weekly editors were invited to go “Inside the New York Times” to learn about day-to-day operations and to develop their journalistic...

Ph.D. Students Analyze Baltimore’s Inner Suburbs “In scholarly literature, there is a lot of interest about inner suburbs, those older suburban communities near the central city. We found...

A Global Action Plan for Women in IT   For the first time, technology leaders from 22 countries and six continents will gather to explore concrete ways in which access by girls and women...