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UMBC School of Public Policy and APPAM work to diversify the field through outreach to students
Frances Carter-Johnson, M.S. ’07, applied physics, and Ph.D. ’11, public policy, is used to getting questions about why she jumped from physics to public policy and explaining how, in her career...
Posted: March 14, 2019, 8:22 PM
UMBC’s Evan Avila wins iOme Challenge with ideas to help millennials save for retirement
Evan Avila ‘20, economics and political science, is a millennial with retirement on his mind, and his fresh ideas are now capturing the interest of policymakers. Avila recently won first place in...
Posted: June 27, 2018, 5:29 PM
Stephanie Milani named Newman Civic Fellow for expanding access to computer science education
When Stephanie Milani ‘19, computer science and psychology, attended an all-girls robotics camp as a middle school student she realized that she found computer science truly fascinating. It was...
Posted: April 17, 2018, 1:34 PM
Newman Civic Fellow Sophia Lopresti to return to Indonesia as a Fulbright Scholar
Sophia Lopresti B.A., Global Studies Minor: Intercultural Communication Magna Cum Laude Hometown: Sterling, Virginia Plans: Fulbright English Teaching Assistant, Indonesia UMBC has...
Posted: April 15, 2018, 8:06 PM
Andrea Davis to continue enriching students’ college experience through graduate study in student affairs
Andrea Davis B.A., Sociology Minor: Africana Studies Magna Cum Laude Hometown: Nyack, New York Plans: M.A., Ohio State University In all of the positions that I have held on campus, I have...
Posted: April 15, 2018, 6:08 PM
Manisha Vepa pursues interest in East Asian affairs as Fulbright Scholar in South Korea
Manisha Vepa B.A., Economics and Global Studies Minor: Music Summa Cum Laude Hometown: Ellicott City, Maryland Plans: Fulbright English Teaching Assistant, South Korea UMBC has afforded me...
Posted: April 15, 2018, 4:27 PM
UMBC launches Grit & Greatness campaign focused on big breakthroughs, true partnerships, and transforming lives
UMBC launched a new $150 million campaign on June 9, on the heels of a joyful 50th anniversary year, by coming together in harmony, quite literally. With individually toned bells in hand and the...
Posted: June 16, 2017, 1:15 PM
Isabel Geisler, Reach Initiative founder, to pursue Ph.D. in sociology
Isabel Geisler B.A., Global Studies Cum Laude Hometown: Middletown, Maryland Plans: Ph.D., Northeastern University At UMBC no one has ever told me to temper my ambitions. It was here I...
Posted: May 13, 2017, 11:29 PM
UMBC Sondheim Scholar creates the Reach Initiative to support Baltimore teen girls in STEM
As a freshman Sondheim Scholar living in UMBC’s service-focused Shriver Living-Learning Community, Isabel Geisler had big plans. Geisler ’17, global studies, wanted to create a support program for...
Posted: March 22, 2017, 6:14 PM
New mentoring program connects refugee youth in Baltimore with opportunities to pursue a college education
A new college access mentoring program for refugees in Baltimore has demonstrated tremendous success in its first year, with all of the graduating seniors in the program accepted into college....
Posted: July 25, 2016, 8:16 PM
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