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Perspective: An American Artist in Italy

Leah Clare Michaels is a Baltimore native, artist, activist, historian, and surfer. She earned her M.F.A. in Intermedia and Digital Arts from UMBC in 2019 and her B. A. in History from the...

Posted: April 6, 2020, 7:00 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

UMBC is named a Fulbright Top Producing Institution

UMBC is proud to be named a 2019 – 2020 Fulbright Top Producing Institution, an honor granted by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. The Fulbright program is...

Posted: February 10, 2020, 5:47 PM

50-Foot Woman Tells All

If art is life, then Rahne Alexander is living hers as a collage of towering technicolor. On stage with her bands Santa Librada and 50’ ; she conjures her musical muses—think Stevie Nicks or the...

Posted: December 17, 2019, 4:44 PM

Climate Shift

From Eritrea to UMBC, this physicist is cultivating a diverse generation of climate scientists.  It’s a nearly cloudless afternoon at UMBC in early October. A group of physics students and their...

Posted: December 10, 2019, 4:47 PM

Beautiful Dreamer

The film begins, a fast-moving montage of seemingly unrelated images: eyes, people dancing, an airplane landing, artillery, President Kennedy, wrestlers, a woman applying hairspray, all...

Posted: December 3, 2019, 9:36 PM

UMBC Shines at Brilliant Baltimore

In this first year of Baltimore’s mash-up of eclectic and electric art festival Light City and the annual book festival—a hybrid called Brilliant Baltimore—UMBC shone brightly. Several UMBC...

Posted: November 18, 2019, 2:22 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