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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
Peter Wilschke ’24, political science and economics, publishes empirical research as the sole author in the State and Local Government Review journal
Peter Wilschke’s weeks leading up to graduation have been filled with unexpected excitement. His article “Political Drivers of State Fiscal Cyclicality” has been accepted for publication in the...
Posted: May 23, 2024, 12:56 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
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