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The molecular storyteller: How Cameron Slayden ’99 advances science through animation
Inside the dark, swirling chaos of a cell, drama unfolds. A viral molecule, rendered in electric blue and menacing curves, attempts its invasion. A therapeutic compound swoops in to intercept it...
Posted: October 21, 2025, 3:53 PM
Rising Star Alumni Award recipient Courtney Culp ’20—working to bring her success into the community
Rising Star is a worthy award for alum and Linehan Artist Scholar Courtney Culp ’20. During her time at UMBC, Culp was both an athlete and an artist, playing Division 1 soccer and pursuing a...
Posted: October 21, 2025, 2:59 PM
Ripples of excellence: This Meyerhoff alumnus is expanding UMBC’s legacy
“I have been in your shoes.” Erwin Cabrera ’10, biological sciences, often finds himself sharing these words during monthly meetings for Stony Brook University’s Simons STEM Scholars. Some of the...
Posted: October 21, 2025, 2:44 PM
Mark Benesch catalyzes UMBC’s partnership with drug maker AstraZeneca
Mark Benesch and other AstraZeneca recruiters talk with students at the UMBC Career Fair in September. (Photo courtesy of Miriam Friedman) On a recent Wednesday in September, thousands of...
Posted: October 13, 2025, 12:10 PM
Emily Brown ’14, M.S. ’14, shares the importance of community for women in technology
As a high schooler, Emily Brown ’14, M.S. ’14, computer science, dreamed of a future in STEM. Searching for a community to support her aspirations, she found the Center for Women and Technology at...
Posted: October 8, 2025, 11:25 AM
Jacqueline Smith ’06, cancer drug researcher and role model for Black chemists
At a young age, Jacqueline Smith ’06, chemistry, already knew what she wanted to study in college. What she wasn’t quite sure about was where that would take her. She interned at several different...
Posted: October 8, 2025, 10:34 AM
Meet Jacqueline Smith ’06, cancer drug researcher and role model for Black chemists
At a young age, Jacqueline Smith ’06, chemistry, already knew what she wanted to study in college. What she wasn’t quite sure about was where that would take her. She interned at several different...
Posted: October 8, 2025, 10:34 AM
Meet a Retriever—Meagan Wade ’13, goes above and beyond to make students feel welcome and engaged
Meet Meagan Wade ’13, psychology, the program coordinator for the Department of Information Systems. Part of Meagan’s job is planning professional development and social events for IS students....
Posted: October 7, 2025, 10:39 AM
Meet a Retriever—Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman ’19, award-winning researcher and writer
Meet Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman ’19, mathematics with a minor in economics. Anna is an award-winning Ghanaian American researcher and writer and a doctoral student studying public policy and...
Posted: September 17, 2025, 2:17 PM
A giant among mantis shrimp: Tom Cronin’s outsized legacy of mentorship ripples outward in visual ecology and beyond
Every biological sciences graduate student at UMBC knows “the face”—Tom Cronin’s signature scowl, which, contrary to appearances, signals rapt attention rather than disapproval. At a day-long...
Posted: September 12, 2025, 12:23 PM
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