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From UMBC News and Magazine

Public law for public good

On a fall Saturday morning, Mohammad Arshad, an information systems senior, greeted clients arriving at the Erickson School of Aging Studies looking for a fresh start with the help of UMBC’s first...

Posted: May 14, 2025, 2:48 PM

Stepping up to the plate to preserve UMBC history

When the Fort McHenry Tunnel opened, drivers could thank Richard “Rock” Soracoe ’71, economics, for helping them see as they drove under the harbor. Soracoe spent 50-plus years in the lighting...

Posted: June 20, 2024, 1:02 PM

Chuck Peake—Pioneer of UMBC’s economics program

As Charles “Chuck” Peake celebrated his 90th birthday late one December evening in 2022, a contingent of middle-aged investors, bankers, and academics—Retriever alumni of various decades—were...

Posted: May 8, 2024, 2:38 PM

Uplifting up-and-coming economists

As a student Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman took notice of something missing in the field of academic economics—people who looked like her.  Since then, this Forbes 30 under 30 star in Boston has...

Posted: December 12, 2023, 12:52 PM