Dr. Erin Lavik of chemical, biochemical and environmental engineering has been appointed as the College’s first associate dean forresearch and faculty development. Dr. Lavik received a ScD in...

January 15, 2019 by Kait McCaffrey It wouldn’t be a proper farewell to 2018 without reminiscing about some of the biggest UMBC stories from the year. The Retrievers made NCAA history, the...

January 15, 2019 by Megan Hanks U.S. News has recognized UMBC’s online master’s degree in information systems as one of the top 20 in the nation in new online degree rankings announced today....

The story "Countering Russian disinformation the Baltic nations’ way" by Terry Thompson, Adjunct Instructor in Cybersecurity, University of Maryland, Baltimore County first appeared The...

January 10, 2019 by Megan Hanks UMBC’s Computer Science Education student group recently hosted the third annual Hour of Code event on campus. This popular community event is an...

January 9, 2019 by Dinah Winnick The Baltimore Sun has named UMBC one of the “Top Workplaces” in the Baltimore region for 2018. UMBC ranked eighth among all large employers in the region—the...

January 4, 2019 by Dinah Winnick This week, Times Higher Education shined a spotlight on UMBC’s advancements in graduating more low-income and minority students in the sciences—what it calls...

January 2, 2019 by Megan Hanks UMBC Chess finished tenth overall at the 2018 Pan-American Intercollegiate Team Chess Championship, held in San Francisco, California, December 27 – 30. The...

December 20, 2018 by Megan Hanks The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently released its latest Higher Education Research and Development (HERD) survey, including UMBC among the top...

December 20, 2018 by Megan Hanks UMBC’s Tim Finin, professor of computer science and electrical engineering (CSEE), has been named a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), a...