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UMBC celebrates 2020 – 2021 Fulbright recipients
Eleven recent UMBC alumni are recipients of 2020 – 2021 Fulbright U.S. Student Program awards, including seven from UMBC’s Class of 2020. Each year over 11,000 students apply and just over 2,000...
Posted: September 9, 2020, 8:13 PM
Making coronavirus testing easy, accurate and fast is critical to ending the pandemic – the US response is falling far short
By Zoe McLaren, associate professor of public policy, UMBC For many people in the U.S., getting tested for COVID-19 is a struggle. In Arizona, testing sites have seen lines of hundreds of...
Posted: July 24, 2020, 1:26 PM
What Is a Clinical Trial? A Health Policy Expert Explains
ByZoe McLaren, associate professor, public policy, UMBC A commonly used malaria drug was recently proposed as a treatment for COVID-19 during a White House press briefing, even though it...
Posted: May 13, 2020, 1:41 PM
Latest global and national rankings name UMBC a leading university, from engineering and biology to public policy
UMBC is again one of the top 500 universities in the world, according to the QS World University Rankings. In their recently released subject area rankings, UMBC is noted globally in the broad...
Posted: March 31, 2020, 7:47 PM
Is your city making you fat? How urban planning can address the obesity epidemic
by John Rennie Short, Professor, School of Public Policy, UMBC New disease outbreaks, like the novel coronavirus that recently emerged in China’s Hubei province, generate headlines and...
Posted: February 20, 2020, 6:21 PM
Who Cares for the Caregivers?
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
Real pay data show Trump’s ‘blue collar boom’ is more of a bust for US workers, in 3 charts
by David Salkever, Professor Emeritus of Public Policy, UMBC If you thought workers’ hourly pay was finally rising, think again. At first glance, the latest data – which came out on Feb. 7 –...
Posted: February 7, 2020, 3:28 PM
UMBC’s newest Postdoctoral Fellows for Faculty Diversity explore who has a voice in literature, policy, and social movements
“UMBC is giving me the ultimate opportunity of time and support to think, write, and teach about what matters to me the most—conducting research about my community,” says Fernando Tormos-Aponte,...
Posted: October 28, 2019, 7:05 PM
UMBC spotlights the power of collaboration and community in opening of new science building, GRIT-X talks
During the height of UMBC Homecoming festivities on October 12, the university community and supporters from across Maryland gathered to celebrate the opening of UMBC’s Interdisciplinary Life...
Posted: October 21, 2019, 2:09 PM
Six Baltimore City Schools in UMBC Math Project partnership see math test score gains
Newly released Maryland PARCC test results reveal that Baltimore City schools partnering with UMBC have seen dramatic growth in student math performance. The Baltimore Sun has called this trend...
Posted: September 3, 2019, 4:14 PM
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