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Robert Barry ’25 returns to Greece as a summer research assistant at an archaeological field school
For the last seven weeks, Robert Barry ’25, ancient studies and visual arts, worked in a trench under the sweltering 90-degree sun. It may sound grueling, but this is Barry’s second year working...
Posted: July 31, 2024, 4:35 PM
New experimental archeology course connects students with premodern craft traditions
Aidan Taylor ’25, history, whittles rush stalks, exposing the spongy pith for use as a candle substitute. Halima Jama ’25, English, works with a mortar and pestle, grinding herbs for a medicinal...
Posted: July 24, 2024, 4:07 PM
A Journey of Growth
International travel offers ample opportunities to stretch yourself—one minute you may be the expert and the next, completely clueless about how something works. Retrievers currently in the...
Posted: May 29, 2024, 2:32 PM
A Journey of Growth
International travel offers ample opportunities to stretch yourself—one minute you may be the expert and the next, completely clueless about how something works. Retrievers currently in the...
Posted: May 29, 2024, 2:32 PM
For the third time in five years, UMBC is named a Fulbright Top Producing Institution
Within just a few months of living in Piątek, a small town in central Poland, Leah Michaels, M.F.A ’19, intermedia and digital arts, has already traveled to Romania, where many recipients of the...
Posted: February 13, 2024, 11:32 AM
Book Smart: Joseph Howley ’06, Ancient Studies,
“Roman poets were a lot like rappers,” observes Joseph Howley ’06, ancient studies, who is an assistant professor of classics at Columbia University. It’s the kind of observation – presented as an...
Posted: June 16, 2015, 2:08 PM