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To you—Letter from the editor
The other morning at breakfast, I told my son I could draw an infinite line on two sides of a single piece of paper. He, of course, scoffed. So, I found a scrap sheet, made a half twist of the...
Posted: June 12, 2025, 4:15 PM
Office Hours—Q&A with President Sheares Ashby and UMBC-Shady Grove student Jimmy Seavey
On a windy April day, President Valerie Sheares Ashby arrived at UMBC at the Universities at Shady Grove (USG) for her regular student office hours on the Rockville, Maryland, campus. Established...
Posted: June 12, 2025, 12:48 PM
WMBC is back on the air
“You’re listening to WMBC, UMBC’s freeform student radio station. And you’re in the 2000s right now, thanks to the radio time machine.” Four years ago, hearing those words would have been...
Posted: June 12, 2025, 11:53 AM
Detangling Quantum
In the quantum kingdom, particles flirt with the impossible, defying the tidy laws of Newton’s world. Today’s booming quantum industry, built on understanding this realm, hums with the energy of...
Posted: June 10, 2025, 1:22 PM
On track to lead—Retriever athlete wins national Arthur Ashe award
UMBC senior track and field student-athlete Anjayooluwa “Jayo” Adegboyo, biochemistry and molecular biology, was named the 2025 Arthur Ashe Jr. Male Sports Scholar of the Year by Diverse: Issues...
Posted: June 6, 2025, 9:23 AM
My life between the yellow borders
At UMBC, students get a versatile education that Retrievers can draw on to succeed no matter where their career lands them. But sometimes, you hit the home run and end up with your dream job. For...
Posted: June 2, 2025, 4:22 PM
How to create a new world
In her day job as a vice president at the advanced technology company Booz Allen Hamilton, Catherine Ordun, Ph.D. ’23, information systems, leads teams of engineers working on far-out AI tech. In...
Posted: May 30, 2025, 3:01 PM
Then & Now—Home Sweet Home
The Retriever Weekly announces the new dorms opening in 1970. (UMBC Special Collections) “Hey UMBC, and welcome to my crib!” That’s probably not verbatim what students said when UMBC’s first...
Posted: May 30, 2025, 9:57 AM
A class reunion half a world away
With such a large population of Marylanders at UMBC, it’s not that unusual to run into someone you went to high school with. But when that someone is from your high school in Canberra, Australia,...
Posted: May 21, 2025, 11:34 AM
The fellowship of the ring
Like most dads, Chris Burk immediately told his 10-year-old daughter that the object she was trying to fish out of Pig Pen Pond was probably trash. Emily was not to be deterred, and Burk said he...
Posted: May 19, 2025, 3:21 PM
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