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BBC at 100: a trusted international news source, but it’s important to remember whose values it reflects
Jessica Berman, Director of the Dresher Center for the Humanities, Professor of English; Gender Women’s & Sexuality Studies; and Language, Literacy and Culture, UMBC. As the BBC turns 100...
Posted: October 17, 2022, 1:08 PM
Lost in the Art: English major guards and curates paintings at Baltimore Museum of Art
A massive painting dwarfed Rob Kempton ’12, English, as he stood in a Baltimore Museum of Art gallery. In his security guard uniform, Kempton gestured to the swoop of orange oil paint on the...
Posted: July 25, 2022, 11:16 AM
UMBC students explore South Korea, Japan through new Education Abroad Access Fund
Amber Gist ‘23, computer science, has been interested in studying in South Korea for years. When she learned that UMBC offered a program in Seoul, she knew the university would be a great fit for...
Posted: July 20, 2022, 8:15 AM
UMBC’s student innovation competition winners share tips for aspiring entrepreneurs
Student teams recently gathered at Betamore, a Baltimore-based entrepreneurship and coworking space, to battle in the final round of UMBC’s annual Cangialosi Business Innovation Competition. Greg...
Posted: May 25, 2022, 4:02 PM
Beyond Midlife: Kathy Marmor’s new artwork explores memory and embodiment for women in midlife
Western culture remains terrified of aging, particularly for women, but that fear doesn’t stop any of us from actually aging. Kathy Marmor, associate professor of visual arts at UMBC, delves into...
Posted: March 3, 2022, 6:01 PM
UMBC’s Sharon Tran receives a Career Enhancement Fellowship for writing on Asian girlhood and anti-Asian racism
During the summer of 2021, several months into an uptick in racist violence against Asian Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic, six Asian women were shot and killed in Atlanta, Georgia. Sharon...
Posted: December 9, 2021, 5:08 PM
Women leaders from UMBC, Morgan State, and UMD receive $3M Mellon grant to diversify senior leadership in higher ed
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has granted UMBC, Morgan State University, and the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) $3 million to launch Breaking the M.O.L.D. (Mellon/Maryland...
Posted: November 18, 2021, 2:00 PM
International labor economist Tim Gindling is named UMBC’s 2021 – 2022 Liptz Professor
UMBC has named Tim Gindling, professor of economics, the 2021 – 2022 Lipitz Professor of the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences (CAHSS). This endowed professorship celebrates,...
Posted: September 14, 2021, 4:04 PM
Special Edition
Under normal circumstances, print news like UMBC’s student newspaper The Retriever binds the campus community together. College students reach for the paper because they know their friend wrote a...
Posted: June 9, 2021, 6:38 PM
UMBC’s Cangialosi Business Innovation Competition winners focus on tech innovations, social impact
When Balaji Viswanathan’s grandfather was injured in a fall at a senior care facility a few years ago, he committed to seeing what he could do to prevent it from happening again, to his...
Posted: May 21, 2021, 3:41 PM
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