Center for Women in Technology News

Decades after the start of the internship boom, internships continue to be invaluable for both undergraduate and graduate students. As UMBC students demonstrate, gaining real-world experience and...

Many students come to UMBC with the goal of leaving the familiar behind to take on new challenges and gain a fresh perspective. Once they’re on campus, that’s also what inspires some Retrievers to...

With their hearts in the work and their ears to the ground, the people behind some of UMBC’s longest-standing homegrown programs are solving big societal problems. But the work is never done....

The UMBC Women’s Center has planned this year’s Critical Social Justice Week (CSJ) around the core idea that “a single light can’t illuminate a city or a nation, but it can ignite a movement that...

Busy teams of students clustered around laptops in a room overlooking Baltimore’s Inner Harbor on Tuesday, focused on solving as many challenges as possible during a “capture-the-flag” style...

Cybersecurity is one of the fastest growing industries in the United States and a recent Business-Higher Education Forum report calls Maryland the “epicenter of national cybersecurity.” The...

Kourtney Rutkowski B.S., Mechanical Engineering Minor: Psychology Cum Laude Hometown: Bel Air, Maryland Plans: M.S., mechanical engineering, UMBC UMBC has also helped to grow my...

Priyanka Ranade B.S., Information Systems Cum Laude Hometown: Silver Spring, Maryland Plans: Cyber Software Engineer, Northrop Grumman Corporation As a woman minority in technology, I got...

Bryan Vanek B.S., Computer Science Minor: Mathematics Cum Laude Hometown: Frederick, Maryland Plans: Computer Network Operations Development Program, U.S. Department of Defense If it...

Katherine Dillon B.S., Computer Science Magna Cum Laude Hometown: Ellicott City, Maryland Plans: Software Engineer, Google; M.S., computer science, UMBC The CWIT program has prepared me to...