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Office Hours
Each week during her student-facing office hours, UMBC President Valerie Sheares Ashby meets with students to chat about their lives and experiences at UMBC. Today, she’s speaking with Okechukwu...
Posted: November 17, 2023, 11:24 AM
Grab a Seat at the Table
These days, it’s tempting to grow numb to the polarization of society and the breakdown in public discourse and to retreat into our silos of solidarity. But a liberal arts education has the...
Posted: November 15, 2023, 2:07 PM
The long shot—4-time Olympian Cleopatra Borel ’02 inducted to Athletics Hall of Fame
Cleopatra Borel had no athletic aspirations when she arrived in Baltimore from Trinidad and Tobago in 1997. She enrolled at what was then Coppin State College on the advice of her high school math...
Posted: November 14, 2023, 3:11 PM
Biology department members create an experiment of note—a band called Fever Dream
Before you let your imagination run wild, we’re going to go ahead and temper whatever expectations you may have upon hearing the phrase “biology band.” Nobody is banging on a centrifuge in lieu of...
Posted: November 9, 2023, 5:01 PM
How to plan a successful stage battle
Van Helsing straddles the vampire, brandishing her cross and wooden stake. The undead—mouth and shirt stained with blood—had just confessed to a brutal kill when the vampire slayer brings down her...
Posted: November 3, 2023, 11:00 AM
Alumni Awards 2023—Making impact through relationships
On the stage of the 35th annual Alumni Awards, awardees and their nominators repeated a shared theme: the freedom and flexibility to grow at UMBC—not alone—but in community. Presented by the...
Posted: November 1, 2023, 12:56 PM
Embarking on ‘Happily Ever After’
By Roni Rosenthal For those who grew up—or still are—spellbound by movies like Beauty and the Beast, Toy Story, and The Lion King, you are part of what some historians dub the “Disney...
Posted: October 23, 2023, 1:09 PM
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