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Stepping up to the plate to preserve UMBC history
When the Fort McHenry Tunnel opened, drivers could thank Richard “Rock” Soracoe ’71, economics, for helping them see as they drove under the harbor. Soracoe spent 50-plus years in the lighting...
Posted: June 20, 2024, 1:02 PM
Ph.D. candidate Emily Faber improving climate modeling with NOAA fellowship
Over the last two years, Emily Faber, Ph.D. candidate in atmospheric physics, painstakingly replicated part of a NASA climate model on UMBC computing systems. She compared the model’s predictions...
Posted: June 14, 2024, 12:00 PM
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
Finding Gold on the Water
Push, pull, push, pull. On goes this routine of synchronized oar movements as rowers—nestled in long, tapered boats—move through the water with precision and speed. The trim boats glide through...
Posted: June 3, 2024, 2:35 PM
How to count time: Professor Curtis Menyuk brings his expertise in optics to an age-old problem
Time—We buy it and spend it, save it and waste it; it seems to race by as we watch our children grow or drag on in the last hour of a Friday work day. Shakespeare marked “time’s thievish progress”...
Posted: June 3, 2024, 1:26 PM
Putting UMBC Research on the Map
Spring on UMBC’s main campus brings a host of familiar sights and sounds: blooms on the magnolia trees, the chatter of red-winged blackbirds calling from the reeds around Library Pond, greening...
Posted: May 30, 2024, 10:42 AM
The Senior Class
Retrievers for life, that’s UMBC’s promise, and a group of residents at Charlestown’s senior living community are keeping their end of the bargain. Located two miles away from UMBC’s Catonsville...
Posted: May 29, 2024, 4:34 PM
A Journey of Growth
International travel offers ample opportunities to stretch yourself—one minute you may be the expert and the next, completely clueless about how something works. Retrievers currently in the...
Posted: May 29, 2024, 2:32 PM
A Journey of Growth
International travel offers ample opportunities to stretch yourself—one minute you may be the expert and the next, completely clueless about how something works. Retrievers currently in the...
Posted: May 29, 2024, 2:32 PM
Live Music Strikes a Chord for Retrievers
Singer Gerard Way of My Chemical Romance at the UMBC Fieldhouse (currently known as the RAC) on October 21, 2005. Photo by Kenneth Cappello. It may be coincidental that UMBC was founded in the...
Posted: May 24, 2024, 4:43 PM
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