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Journals help make sacred spaces
The benches in Beuys Sculpture Garden in the south part of campus are fitted with special shelves for the journals. (Marlayna Demond ’11/UMBC). It makes sense that in a space on campus...
Posted: December 18, 2023, 11:42 AM
Building the bonfire from scratch
At UMBC, we’re still young enough to be making traditions. Meet Thomas Locastro, biological sciences alumnus, who knew from day one on campus in 2003 that he wanted to leave behind a lasting...
Posted: December 18, 2023, 9:58 AM
Uplifting up-and-coming economists
As a student Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman took notice of something missing in the field of academic economics—people who looked like her. Since then, this Forbes 30 under 30 star in Boston has...
Posted: December 12, 2023, 12:52 PM
Why We Love it Here
What gets you up and out the door each morning? And what makes a job more than a job—or even more than a career? For so many who make UMBC their professional home, the value goes way beyond a...
Posted: December 8, 2023, 9:06 AM
Three sisters—all alums—share their family’s recipes for food and comfort
Aimee, Jamie, and Gina Joshua have a lot in common. All three went to UMBC as members of the Meyerhoff Scholars Program. And the sisters all have great memories of growing up in a house filled...
Posted: December 7, 2023, 4:32 PM
Historical lens—3 stories that scratch the surface of a 5,400 image archive
One of the most influential sets of historical photos in UMBC’s Special Collections is an archive of more than 5,400 images documenting the harsh conditions of child laborers in early 20th-century...
Posted: December 7, 2023, 12:28 PM
Handle with care—students help digitize and rehouse thousands of historical photos
A nine-year-old stands at the mouth of a coal mine covered in coal dust, wearing a small headlamp. A woman holds her baby on her lap as she packs boxes in a warehouse along with her 5-, 8-, and...
Posted: December 7, 2023, 12:15 PM
As summer wildfire smoke choked Baltimore, UMBC air pollution researchers leapt into action
Starting this May, a series of wildfires in Eastern Canada sent enormous smoke clouds wafting into the U.S., triggering air quality warnings in cities from the Midwest to the Northeast. For days,...
Posted: December 7, 2023, 8:43 AM
Finding one’s face and building financially resilient spaces through ‘susus’
Sonya Squires-Caesar, a doctoral candidate in UMBC’s language, literacy, and culture program, has been interviewing communities who use susus to save money for big-ticket items like homes, farms,...
Posted: December 5, 2023, 4:37 PM
The man behind the camera
When LeBron James comes calling, you answer the phone. Philip Knowlton ’03, visual arts, knows this better than most. The NBA legend doesn’t have the UMBC alum in his contacts because...
Posted: December 4, 2023, 10:03 AM
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