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From UMBC News and Magazine

Welcoming Retrievers Back Home

When the NCAA canceled the 2020 spring and fall championship seasons due to the pandemic, UMBC Athletic Director Brian Barrio created a new game plan for Athletics communication staff: create...

Posted: November 20, 2020, 4:40 PM

Pursuing Art and Peace Through Theater of Ideas

By Susan Thornton Hobby The second week of March 2020, the cast and crew of Asif Majid’s original play were eagerly anticipating their Friday night community reading at a black box theater....

Posted: November 5, 2020, 3:14 PM

Career Q&A: Melissa Penley Cormier, M.F.A. ’17

Every so often, we chat with an alum about what they do and how they got there. By day, Melissa Penley Cormier, M.F.A ’17, intermedia + digital arts (IMDA), helps faculty and students at UMBC...

Posted: November 3, 2020, 7:38 PM

Career Q&A: Chris Adams ’15, economics

Every so often, we chat with an alum about what they do and how they got there. Today’s guest, investment banker Chris Adams ‘15, economics, is putting his interests in business and sports to work...

Posted: October 22, 2020, 7:33 PM

Creating a Literary Space for the ‘Nobodies’

A literary magazine with Taco Bell as its touchstone? It’s actually not as cheesy as it sounds. Unwrap one of the two existing volumes and find: An essay that examines the Taco Bell Chalupa and...

Posted: August 21, 2020, 7:32 PM

Alumni Business Q&A: Precise Software Solutions

UMBC alumni businesses are doing what they can to stay strong and build community during these troubled times. UMBC Magazine will be publishing occasional interviews with alumni business owners to...

Posted: July 10, 2020, 2:37 PM

Change Agent Behind #BlackBirdersWeek

Before she graduated from UMBC, Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman’19, M26, mathematics, founded the Sadie Collective. Opoku-Agyeman describes it on her website as, “the first and only organization to date...

Posted: July 2, 2020, 4:08 PM

Medicine Without Borders

Coco Tang’s medical missions around the world would sound like a summer action movie if they weren’t a matter of life and death. Just behind the front lines of the battle of Mosul in Iraq,...

Posted: June 26, 2020, 7:19 PM