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Meet a Retriever—Michelle Jabes Corpora ‘03, young adult author and editor
MeetMichelle Jabes Corpora’03, English and theatre. Michelle is the author of nine novels, an editor for commercial fiction, and an avid student of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. She came to UMBC as a...
Posted: June 5, 2024, 11:57 AM
Meet a Retriever—Hyojin Choi, psychology and social work major and student leader
Meet Hyojin Choi, a double major in psychology and social work at UMBC at The Universities at Shady Grove. A transfer student, Hyojin is an active member of the peer advisory team and president of...
Posted: May 2, 2024, 3:01 PM
Living in vivid color—Kate Feller, Ph.D., is pushing boundaries in biology research and teaching
The shower was full of mantis shrimp. Bubblers burbled and the cranky crustaceans skulked in their tanks, looking for things to punch with their famously fast strikes. Complicated electronics for...
Posted: November 15, 2023, 3:22 PM
Squaring the Circle: The Powerful Art of Hadieh Shafie
The most recent artworks by Hadieh Shafie, M.F.A. ’04, intermedia and digital arts, appear like optical illusions, tricks. Tightly stacked lines of colored pencil suddenly twist and warp into...
Posted: June 14, 2023, 2:01 PM
Hang Ten with New Friends
When UMBC’s volleyball team headed to the University of Southern California (USC) for a tournament, Athletics reached out and invited West Coast Retrievers to an LA happy hour before the game....
Posted: December 14, 2022, 3:37 PM
Bird Brainiac
Elle Kreiner and Chicken. (Marlayna Demond ’11/UMBC) At UMBC, we welcome Retrievers of all stripes… and feathers. Spotted on campus recently enjoying student life is an 87-year-old yellow...
Posted: December 8, 2022, 3:19 PM
Coppersmith is America East “Woman of the Year”—the first in UMBC history
After four seasons at UMBC, Courtney Coppersmith’s name has become synonymous with success on and off the softball field. The America East Conference agrees. Yesterday, Coppersmith ‘22,...
Posted: June 24, 2022, 8:43 AM
Simons Foundation provides $2.5M to support UMBC Meyerhoff Scholars, plans New York replication
The Simons Foundation and its sister organization, Simons Foundation International, have pledged $2.5 million over five years to support the Meyerhoff Scholars Program. Continued partnership...
Posted: June 10, 2022, 4:19 PM
Challenging the status quo and inspiring young women in tech
Priscila de Almeida Feitosa Degree: B.S., Computer Science Hometown: São Paulo, Brazil Plans: Software engineer for Amazon “On campus, I never felt different. I never felt nervous when...
Posted: May 11, 2022, 2:20 PM
UMBC’s Ryan Kramer confirms human-caused climate change with direct evidence for first time
A new analysis based on 16 years of observational data confirms that humans are heating the planet—a fact that had previously been inferred from climate models but not yet shown through direct...
Posted: April 12, 2021, 5:03 PM
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