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From dream to drive to degree: Five UMBC journeys
Earning a degree isn’t just a milestone, it’s a special kind of growth experience full of challenges and doubts, inspiration and opportunity. Depending on their path, some students face particular...
Posted: May 14, 2019, 1:42 PM
New York Gets Serious about Traffic with the First Citywide US Congestion Pricing Plan
By John Rennie Short, Professor, School of Public Policy, UMBC After years of debate, New York state has adopted congestion pricing to deal with traffic problems in New York City. Starting in...
Posted: April 3, 2019, 1:29 PM
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
U.S. News recognizes UMBC graduate programs as among nation’s best in new 2020 rankings
According to U.S. News rankings released today, UMBC graduate programs are some of the best in the nation for 2020. The rankings are developed based on expert opinions and statistical indicators...
Posted: March 12, 2019, 8:45 PM
UMBC ranks among top 150 U.S. universities in federal research funding
The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently released its latest Higher Education Research and Development (HERD) survey, including UMBC among the top 150 U.S. universities in federal research...
Posted: December 20, 2018, 9:01 PM
From visual effects to cybersecurity, UMBC grads share transformative career connections
As a Cyber Scholar at UMBC, Victoria Herr ’18 knows how important mentorship and direct, hands-on experience can be for young women in computing. Herr is graduating with an information systems...
Posted: December 19, 2018, 3:36 PM
CS3 leads research summit on community-based violence prevention in Baltimore
Lauren and Vibha sit in a conference room deep in the middle of the University of Maryland School of Medicine. They wait patiently as faculty and staff from UMBC; the University of Maryland,...
Posted: December 14, 2018, 6:56 PM
Bahama Oriole Project team awarded NSF grant to offer more UMBC undergrads international research experiences
UMBC is recognized as a national leader in undergraduate teaching, in part because the university connects so many students with meaningful research opportunities. Now, a new $300,000 NSF...
Posted: November 6, 2018, 6:34 PM
UMBC education policy expert Jane Arnold Lincove helps launch national center for research on school choice
UMBC’s Jane Arnold Lincove, associate professor of public policy, is collaborating with colleagues across the U.S. to launch the National Center for Research on Education Access and Choice (REACH)...
Posted: July 23, 2018, 5:11 PM
UMBC alumnus Chris Haffer becomes EEOC’s first chief data officer
Building on 25 years of experience in public policy research, UMBC alumnus Chris Haffer has started a new leadership role with the key federal agency that enforces civil rights laws against...
Posted: July 17, 2018, 7:23 PM
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