From UMBC News and Magazine
Michael Sarbanes Named Inaugural Sherman Center Executive Director at UMBC
Center supports transformational education in the Baltimore community Michael Sarbanes, a leading voice in educational transformation, has been appointed the inaugural executive director...
Posted: June 23, 2025, 9:28 AM
Ayra Sangi, current senior, receives prestigious Freeman-ASIA study abroad scholarship
Ayra Sangi, an Asian studies senior, has received the 2025 Freeman-ASIA Award. The semester-long education abroad award funds U.S.-based undergraduates up to $5,000 to study abroad in East or...
Posted: June 20, 2025, 2:01 PM
Grok’s ‘white genocide’ responses show how generative AI can be weaponized
Written by James Foulds, associate professor of information systems, UMBC; Phil Feldman, adjunct research assistant professor of information systems, UMBC; and Shimei Pan, associate professor of...
Posted: June 20, 2025, 11:40 AM
Magaly Lizama Hernandez ’26, a burgeoning public servant, receives the inaugural Bernard L. Berkowitz Memorial Award, honoring service to Baltimore City
Growing up in Bronx, New York, almost a century ago, Bernard “Bernie” L. Berkowitz, a first-generation son of Hungarian immigrants, may not have realized then that his life would take him beyond...
Posted: June 18, 2025, 3:34 PM
Southeast Asian nations look to hedge their way out of troubled waters in the South China Sea
John Rennie Short, professor emeritus of public policy, UMBC The South China Sea has long been a bubbling geopolitical hot spot. Recently, a series of moves by the various nations claiming a...
Posted: June 18, 2025, 10:39 AM
Leading brain researchers and engineers converge on UMBC campus to advance innovative neurotechnologies
From June 5 – 8, UMBC hosted leading scientific researchers for a series of meetings on the science of the brain—often said to be the least understood organ in the human body. The proceedings...
Posted: June 17, 2025, 3:48 PM
Anupam Joshi Named Vice Provost and Chief AI Officer
Anupam Joshi, Ph.D., has been named vice provost and chief AI officer for the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) beginning July 1. Joshi brings almost three decades of experience at...
Posted: June 16, 2025, 3:58 PM
A lifetime of responding to disasters earns a lifetime professorship for John Ashworth, III
Before 1960, the United States didn’t have a shock trauma center. That was until the construction of the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center at the University of Maryland, which marked a turning...
Posted: June 16, 2025, 8:33 AM
Information Regarding Recent Federal Travel Ban
Dear Campus Community, I am writing to update you on recent travel restrictions that affect certain members of our campus community. The information contained in this communication is...
Posted: June 13, 2025, 2:13 PM
To you—Letter from the editor
The other morning at breakfast, I told my son I could draw an infinite line on two sides of a single piece of paper. He, of course, scoffed. So, I found a scrap sheet, made a half twist of the...
Posted: June 12, 2025, 4:15 PM
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