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Office Hours—President Sheares Ashby talks with a graduating senior about rootedness and change
Manav Narendra’s story has been shaped by constant motion. A math and computer science double major, who graduated from UMBC this spring, Narendra grew up moving frequently between India and the...
Posted: June 17, 2026, 2:49 PM
Humanities Books: A Room in Bombay
Manil Suri moved to the United States after spending the first 20 years of his life living in a 400-square-foot room in Bombay, India, with his father, Ram, and mother, Prem, to whom he dedicated...
Posted: June 4, 2026, 4:35 PM
Rileigh Mansfield ’26—a mathematician with contagious enthusiasm and a ‘Survivor’ spirit
The UMBC career of Rileigh Mansfield ’26, mathematics, has been a masterclass in combining high-level theory with real-world impact. A Meyerhoff Scholar who began conducting research in her first...
Posted: May 5, 2026, 1:48 PM
Kayla Nemirovsky ’26—Math plus financial economics major with equal passion for numbers and travel
If senior Kayla Nemirovsky’s passport could talk, the first thing it would likely say is, “I’m tired.” Despite having local roots, first attending Mount Hebron High School in nearby Ellicott City...
Posted: April 24, 2026, 2:24 PM
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
The parallel evolution of Milt Halem and the third pillar of science
For almost 70 years, Milt Halem, now a research professor at UMBC after a career at NASA, has deployed the latest computing technology—from vacuum tubes in the ’50s to artificial intelligence...
Posted: December 3, 2024, 2:13 PM
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
Meet a Retriever—Sean McWilliams, M.S. ’16, Alumni Association Alumni Awards Committee Co-Chair
Meet Sean McWilliams, M.S. ‘16, applied mathematics. Sean is a portfolio manager at T. Rowe Price and an active member of the UMBC Alumni Association Board of Directors, serving as one of the...
Posted: April 5, 2024, 1:11 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
Mentors help students grow their research skills, from fieldwork in Puerto Rico to labs at UMBC
It’s 4 a.m. in Puerto Rico, and Ellie Bare’s alarm is going off. Within an hour, she and her research colleagues are driving to their forested field site on the north side of the island to record...
Posted: May 15, 2023, 11:40 AM
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