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Inaugural “MyRCA” interdisciplinary faculty cohort empowers researchers to bring their work to life
UMBC’s new Make Your Research Come Alive (MyRCA) program is helping faculty translate their scholarship into compelling stories that resonate across disciplines, sectors, and audiences. Launched...
Posted: June 1, 2026, 3:17 PM
Pete Fitzpatrick, pediatric transport nurse, appointed to Maryland’s Opioid Restitution Fund Advisory Council
Pete Fitzpatrick ’96 completed his paramedic training in a speeding ambulance in West Baltimore over 30 years ago. It wasn’t the career he had envisioned, but after a friend gave him a textbook...
Posted: October 30, 2025, 3:48 PM
A lifetime of responding to disasters earns a lifetime professorship for John Ashworth, III
Before 1960, the United States didn’t have a shock trauma center. That was until the construction of the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center at the University of Maryland, which marked a turning...
Posted: June 16, 2025, 8:33 AM
If FEMA didn’t exist, could states handle the disaster response alone?
Written by Ming Xie, assistant professor of emergency health management and public health systems, UMBC. Imagine a world in which a hurricane devastates the Gulf Coast, and the U.S. has no...
Posted: February 10, 2025, 10:57 AM
Meet a Retriever—Matthew Levy ’00, M.S. ’08, emergency response professional
Meet Matthew J. Levy ’00, M.S. ’08, emergency and disaster health services (EDHS), who has dedicated his career to Maryland communities. His expertise, as a physician of emergency medicine and...
Posted: November 19, 2024, 11:16 AM
Colonialism’s legacy has left Caribbean nations much more vulnerable to hurricanes
Written by Farah Nibbs, assistant professor of emergency and disaster health systems at UMBC Long before colonialism brought slavery to the Caribbean, the native islanders saw hurricanes and...
Posted: October 22, 2024, 11:12 AM
Infrastructure of support after Key Bridge collapse
In 1987, Paul Flinton, then a 23-year-old senior studying at UMBC, decided to make a short documentary focused on the tollbooth workers on the Francis Scott Key Bridge. The six-minute...
Posted: June 13, 2024, 1:40 PM
Rotting sargassum is choking the Caribbean’s white sand beaches, fueling an economic and public health crisis
Written by Farah Nibbs, assistant professor of emergency and disaster health systems at UMBC The Caribbean’s sandy beaches, clear turquoise water and vibrant coral reefs filled with an...
Posted: June 4, 2024, 2:59 PM
Thirsty in paradise: Water crises are a growing problem across the Caribbean islands
Written by Farah Nibbs, assistant professor of emergency and disaster health systems at UMBC. In the popular imagination, the Caribbean is paradise, an exotic place to escape to. But behind...
Posted: May 14, 2024, 8:31 AM
New name for UMBC’s emergency health services department reflects broadened scope of disaster health systems
The increasing impact of global disasters on health systems has created a growing need for experts to help manage disaster risks and reduce their impact. In keeping with that demand, UMBC’s...
Posted: January 29, 2024, 5:13 PM