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Jacqueline Smith ’06, cancer drug researcher and role model for Black chemists
At a young age, Jacqueline Smith ’06, chemistry, already knew what she wanted to study in college. What she wasn’t quite sure about was where that would take her. She interned at several different...
Posted: October 8, 2025, 10:34 AM
Meet Jacqueline Smith ’06, cancer drug researcher and role model for Black chemists
At a young age, Jacqueline Smith ’06, chemistry, already knew what she wanted to study in college. What she wasn’t quite sure about was where that would take her. She interned at several different...
Posted: October 8, 2025, 10:34 AM
Meet a Retriever—Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman ’19, award-winning researcher and writer
Meet Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman ’19, mathematics with a minor in economics. Anna is an award-winning Ghanaian American researcher and writer and a doctoral student studying public policy and...
Posted: September 17, 2025, 2:17 PM
UMBC and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services partner to create pathways for a more diverse and inclusive workforce
UMBC and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) establishing a strategic partnership to increase public service career awareness and...
Posted: January 14, 2025, 1:39 PM
Meet a Retriever—Monroe Kennedy, III, ’12, mechanical engineering professor at Stanford University
Meet Monroe Kennedy, III, a Meyerhoff Scholar (M20) who earned his B.S. in mechanical engineering from UMBC in 2012 before earning his M.S. in robotics and Ph.D. in mechanical engineering and...
Posted: May 3, 2024, 7:17 AM
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
Forward Progress Begins with Mentorship
Olumide Fagboyegun ’21, M29, biochemistry, is a recent UMBC graduate and a Meyerhoff Scholar. He will soon begin his Ph.D. in neuroscience at Harvard. Since graduating, he’s reflected on the...
Posted: July 16, 2021, 1:21 PM
Change Agent Behind #BlackBirdersWeek
Before she graduated from UMBC, Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman’19, M26, mathematics, founded the Sadie Collective. Opoku-Agyeman describes it on her website as, “the first and only organization to date...
Posted: July 2, 2020, 4:08 PM
Meet the Newest Alums: Bell, Tewelde, and Lomax
UMBC is always full of hard-working people who aspire to do great things, and the class of 2014 is no exception. Today, we wanted to share with you what some of our recent graduates are planning...
Posted: December 21, 2014, 2:00 PM
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