Showing items tagged icp. Show All
UMBC’s Meyerhoff Scholars model heads to UC Berkeley and UCSD through a $6.9M investment from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
“The key to accelerating discoveries in science or the next tech breakthrough will be dependent on our ability to bring fresh perspectives to STEM fields,” says Priscilla Chan, co-founder of the...
Posted: April 9, 2019, 10:05 PM
Times Higher Ed spotlights UMBC as a model in supporting student achievement
This week, Times Higher Education shined a spotlight on UMBC’s advancements in graduating more low-income and minority students in the sciences—what it calls the “holy grail of academia.”...
Posted: January 4, 2019, 9:24 PM
Boston Globe profiles UMBC as a model of excellence in higher ed
Last Sunday’s Boston Globe greeted readers with a front-page story about lessons to be learned from a top research university, but it wasn’t about local powerhouses Harvard or MIT. It was a...
Posted: July 24, 2018, 8:15 PM