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From UMBC News and Magazine
Business—not as usual
At UMBC, entrepreneurship transcends a traditional business education: It empowers scientists, artists, and technologists to transform their expertise into real-world impact. Through business...
Posted: June 12, 2026, 11:42 AM
Eight Retrievers awarded prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
Eight UMBC students and alumni have been awarded the prestigious 2026 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (GRFP), a highly competitive honor that supports outstanding graduate...
Posted: April 24, 2026, 1:34 PM
Dennis Coates closes out his 30th year at UMBC at the top of his game with an award from the North American Association of Sports Economists
As the Baltimore Orioles gear up for the last months of the baseball season, the Baltimore Ravens are flexing their wings as the regular football season begins in September. For Baltimoreans, that...
Posted: September 5, 2025, 3:38 PM
Community starts in the kitchen—Q&A with Ekiben’s Steve Chu ’12 and professor and author Mark Padoongpatt
The tantalizing aroma of food from everyone’s favorite UMBC alumni-founded restaurant, Ekiben, wafts through the air of the Albin O. Kuhn Library and Gallery. People are drawn in by the steamed...
Posted: May 16, 2025, 10:51 AM
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
Julie Granruth ’25, financial economics—For the love of numbers
Math is Julie Granruth’s love language. It has bookmarked her life, starting as a student at Towson High School, where her master tutoring skills made what sometimes looked like a labyrinth of...
Posted: April 29, 2025, 11:35 AM
Meet a Retriever—Collin Sullivan ’19, M.P.P. ’21, digital credential innovator
Collin Sullivan ’19, information systems and economics, M.P.P. ’21, is the program director for digital credential innovation in the Division of Professional Studies. While he started as a student...
Posted: December 9, 2024, 1:15 PM
Peter Wilschke ’24, political science and economics, celebrates national research accomplishments
Peter Wilschke ’24, economics and political science, hit the ground running after graduation in May, beginning a two-year research assistant position at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors in...
Posted: August 13, 2024, 4:36 PM
Meet a Retriever—Patty Hathaway ’97, M.S. ’03, lifetime Retriever and advocate for veterans
Meet Patty Hathaway ’97, M.S. ’03, who earned her B.A. in economics and M.S. in information systems while working at UMBC. After 23 years of service to UMBC, Patty went on to work at three other...
Posted: August 9, 2024, 4:18 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
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