Computer Science and Electrical Engineering News

Showing items tagged stories. Show All

Up on the Roof – Fall 2013

UMBC President Freeman A. Hrabowski, III, takes your questions. In 2007, you signed the American College & University Presidents’ Climate Commitment. Are we making progress to become a more...

Posted: September 22, 2013, 7:32 PM

Finding a Way Home

UMBC alumna Mary Slicher founded one of Baltimore’s leading advocacy groups for the homeless forty years ago. Now her organization is finding a new home of its own. By Elizabeth Heubeck ’91...

Posted: June 13, 2013, 7:18 PM

Curious About Us

UMBC professor of psychology Robert Provine’s “small science” makes big strides in explaining human behavior. By Chelsea Haddaway Twenty five right-handed UMBC students sit cross-legged in...

Posted: June 13, 2013, 7:17 PM

Pest Panic

America’s urban landscapes have long been a battleground in wars against bedbugs, roaches, rats and flies. In a new book, UMBC professor Dawn Biehler traces that conflict’s history across...

Posted: June 13, 2013, 7:15 PM

Alumni Stories

Team Player – Stephanie Hill ’86, computer science and economics Composition as Conversation – James Polchin ’89, political science and English A Sense of Play – Kathleen Warnock ’80,...

Posted: June 13, 2013, 6:56 PM

Behind the Mask

Brendan Mundorf ’07 is one of the world’s best (and toughest) lacrosse players. Now he’s bouncing back from an injury to pursue a professional championship. By Jeff Seidel ’85 Brendan Mundorf...

Posted: February 4, 2013, 9:36 PM

The Write Equation

For Manil Suri, Math + Fiction + Ambition = A Career > The Sum of Its Parts by Mark Athitakis Last October, UMBC professor of mathematics Manil Suri planned to end a session of his...

Posted: February 4, 2013, 9:34 PM

Staging the Struggle

For All the World to See – the award-winning exhibit created at UMBC on the role of visual culture in America’s Civil Rights movement – makes a triumphant return to campus. Introduction by...

Posted: September 13, 2012, 6:26 PM

Our Guiding Principles

• Create and sustain a magazine and Web site that strengthens each UMBC graduate’s intellectual and emotional ties to the University. • Maintain the highest journalistic and literary standards....

Posted: September 13, 2012, 2:45 PM

A SIRI-ous Mind

British writer and scientist Arthur C. Clarke once wrote that “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” And for many of us, that’s exactly how the beeps and pings...

Posted: June 8, 2012, 12:07 AM