COEIT News Archive

Congressman Elijah Cummings visited UMBC this month to speak with faculty, staff, and students from across the university about UMBC’s national leadership as a research university and commitment...

U.S. News highlights UMBC’s Meyerhoff Scholars Program in a new feature article on highly successful national models for engaging and supporting black students in science, technology, engineering...

When UMBC President Freeman Hrabowski spoke at Duke University on February 23, 2016, about supporting minority students in STEM fields, he began by asking UMBC alumni in the audience to stand. A...

Nationwide, just 4 percent of full-time professors are black and 3 percent are Hispanic. What will it take to move the dial on the representation of diverse faculty at U.S. colleges and...

UMBC’S Hassan Omar ’16, mechanical engineering, concluded a phenomenal cross country career with the Retrievers by finishing 27th at the NCAA Championships on Saturday,  November 21. Omar is an...

When Science News asked 30 Nobel Prize winners to name early-career scientists who have caught their attention, two UMBC alumni stood out from the crowd. Brothers Benyam Kinde ’10, and Isaac Kinde...

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan shifts focus to student outcomes in major speech at UMBC. U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan outlined a new vision for American higher education in a...

The National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) recently released its Summer 2015 edition of NSTA Reports, which included a feature on UMBC’s Meyerhoff Scholars Program (MSP). NSTA Reports is an...

The inspiring video “Strength in Numbers: Inside the Meyerhoff Scholars Program” has won a 2015 Telly Award. The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) created this video for a feature article...

“What is UMBC�’s special sauce?” �That’s what Susan Singer, director of the National Science Foundation’�s Division of Undergraduate Education, pondered aloud when she took the stage on September...