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For an independent filmmaker, recognition from the Sundance Film Festival is a big deal. This past January, Jovan James ’13, visual arts, along with co-director Elegance Bratton, presented their...
Posted: March 27, 2020, 3:39 PM
Venturing into a Gestapo interrogation cell is not the way many people would choose to do research. Nevertheless, Kristina R. Gaddy ’09, history and modern languages and linguistics, felt it...
Posted: March 5, 2020, 2:00 PM
Kizzmekia Corbett ’08, M16, biological sciences, says it feels like she’s “living in a constant adrenaline rush.” Maybe that’s because she and her team at the Vaccine Research Center at the...
Posted: March 2, 2020, 10:41 PM
After 41 years at UMBC, Suzanne Ostrand-Rosenberg, professor emerita of biological sciences, retired in August 2018 and moved to Utah to enjoy the mountains with her spouse. But she couldn’t stay...
Posted: February 27, 2020, 8:32 PM
According to recent statistics, approximately 6,000 people in the United States apply for Fulbright awards yearly. Fewer than 800 are awarded and rarely does one person win two. Nevertheless,...
Posted: February 24, 2020, 2:28 PM
Kenneth Harris II caught the engineering bug early. Beneath the desk of his father, NASA engineer Kenneth Harris, was a slice of foam left over from the Mars Pathfinder. After school, Kenneth...
Posted: February 17, 2020, 9:20 PM
Sarah Christa Butts ’07, social work, is used to battling society’s biggest problems, from ending homelessness to stopping family violence. Now, the licensed master social worker is taking her...
Posted: February 11, 2020, 12:31 AM
As UMBC welcomes 2020, we celebrate the student successes, athletic achievements, research breakthroughs, and community news that made 2019 a year to remember. Retriever Nation Whether it was...
Posted: January 9, 2020, 6:06 PM
When UMBC Men’s Soccer Coach Anthony Adams traveled to Canada for a former player’s wedding, he didn’t expect to come away from the trip with a significant donation to the team. But then again, he...
Posted: January 7, 2020, 7:37 PM
If you’ve ever searched online for a place to eat in Baltimore, chances are Ekiben has popped up as a top destination again and again. Or, if you followed along with this year’s fried chicken...
Posted: December 20, 2019, 8:53 PM