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From UMBC News and Magazine

Putting UMBC Research on the Map

Spring on UMBC’s main campus brings a host of familiar sights and sounds: blooms on the magnolia trees, the chatter of red-winged blackbirds calling from the reeds around Library Pond, greening...

Posted: May 30, 2024, 10:42 AM

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

The math (and the man) behind our national security

In the 1960s, a common routine for elementary school students was to practice hiding under their desks in case of a nuclear blast. Following the Bay of Pigs standoff in 1961, international...

Posted: April 7, 2023, 4:36 PM

Lucky in Love

St. Patrick’s Day might not be known as a day celebrating love and lifelong devotion, and True Grit’s may not come to mind as the most romantic place to eat, but for Marcie and David Zisow the...

Posted: April 28, 2022, 1:32 PM

Sherman Scholars Live Out Founder’s Legacy

In Baltimore City, middle schoolers are making roller coasters out of insulation tubing and tape. High schoolers are dunking basketballs to learn math equations. And not too far away at UMBC, the...

Posted: November 29, 2021, 8:02 PM

The Hospitality of UMBC’s Student Clubs

¿No hablas español? Not a problem. The Spanish Conversation Club is happy to have you! Don’t identify as a woman or engineering major? The Society of Women Engineers (SWE) still welcomes you....

Posted: September 9, 2021, 3:27 PM