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Awarding 100,000 dreams and counting—UMBC’s Class of 2025
Before Joy Gabrielle Ware walked off the Commencement stage, she stopped mid-stage to face her peers and shouted, “UM!” prompting a booming “BC!” response from the undergraduates and their...
Posted: May 27, 2025, 8:14 PM
UMBC’s Virtual Tandem Conversation project with German universities is changing the way students see Germany and the U.S.
During a recent trip to Normandy, France, UMBC student Rebecca Smith hopped over to Lüneburg, a historic town in northern Germany, to visit Gertrud Krause-Traudes, her partner in UMBC’s Virtual...
Posted: April 1, 2025, 11:26 AM
Q&A: Robert Provine and the Science of Laughter
Have you ever tried to make yourself laugh – or make yourself stop laughing? According to Robert Provine, professor emeritus of psychology, these two actions are out of our control because...
Posted: January 11, 2019, 8:09 PM