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Building Bonds: Jody Grandier ’17

To teach in a particularly challenging school, it might just help to have gone through a few challenges of your own. At least, that is the case for Jody Grandier ’17, American studies. The...

Posted: November 20, 2019, 2:00 PM

Silicon Valley Success Starts at UMBC

Although it’s been 15 years and he now works in Silicon Valley, Rahul Razdan ’05, information systems, Hilltop Society Member, can still hear UMBC database management instructor Richard...

Posted: November 8, 2019, 3:56 PM

Homecoming 2019 — A Wild Ride

Dogs…carnival rides…dogs…ribbon cutting ceremonies…dogs…Alumni Awards…did we mention dogs? All that means Homecoming season at UMBC! [Video] So grab your pumpkin spiced latte and a nice warm...

Posted: October 18, 2019, 8:20 PM

Alumni Playwrights Produce Proxy and The Possible Place

Writing duo Alex Reeves ’16, acting, and Nell Quinn-Gibney ’17, acting, originally teamed up to create a parody of the Nickelodeon cartoon Kim Possible, performed in a lecture hall in the...

Posted: October 17, 2019, 4:09 PM

A Doctor’s Dilemma

Decentering whiteness while working as a doctor abroad has made alumnus Matthew Loftus examine his medical methods and motivations again and again. If you’re a foreign doctor practicing in an...

Posted: October 9, 2019, 6:19 PM

Leaders in Teaching – Alumni Award Winners Raise the Bar

When La Jerne Terry Cornish first started classes at UMBC, her son was two years old, she was teaching full-time, and she had to drive 45 minutes to get to campus.  The journey was never easy....

Posted: October 1, 2019, 1:53 PM