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UMBC Magazine: See The Challenge, Be The Change

Written by Megan Hanks Mastrola Modeled after a national program, UMBC’s Grand Challenge Scholars Program was established in the College of Engineering and Information Technology (COEIT) in Fall 2016. Over the past six years, the program has expanded, drawing together students from various disciplines to address major challenges that the world is facing. Ranging from engineering better medicines and securing cyberspace…

Posted: July 11, 2022

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For the third time in five years, UMBC is named a Fulbright Top Producing Institution

Within just a few months of living in Piątek, a small town in central Poland, Leah Michaels, M.F.A ’19, intermedia and digital arts, has already traveled to Romania, where many recipients of the...

Posted: February 13, 2024, 11:32 AM

Taiwanese election may determine whether Beijing opts to force the issue of reunification

Written by Meredith Oyen, associate professor of history and Asian studies, UMBC When the votes are being tallied in Taiwan’s presidential election, it won’t be only the 23.6 million...

Posted: January 9, 2024, 10:23 AM

The US invented shopping malls, but China is writing their next chapter

Written by John Rennie Short, professor emeritus of public policy, UMBC On a recent research trip to China, I wandered through the Oasis Mall in suburban Shanghai. Like many Chinese shopping...

Posted: January 5, 2024, 10:48 AM

Meet a Retriever—Brian Souders, Ph.D., globetrotter and study abroad champion

Currently, Brian Souders is the associate director for global learning in the Center for Global Engagement at UMBC. But Brian, who came to UMBC in 2000 to be the university’s inaugural study...

Posted: November 10, 2023, 3:40 PM

Transforming the future of healthy aging: UMBC event highlights leading practices, research from Kanagawa and Maryland

UMBC recently partnered with the government of Japan’s Kanagawa prefecture to host the seminar “New Frontiers in Healthcare Management,” examining innovative approaches to an aging society. The...

Posted: November 30, 2022, 3:22 PM

How to Bridge Your Two Homes

With Jess Presuel ’23, biological sciences, an international student from Mexico Jess Presuel’s route to UMBC was not a direct flight from Mérida, Yucatán—her home state in Mexico—to UMBC....

Posted: November 23, 2022, 1:23 PM

BBC at 100: a trusted international news source, but it’s important to remember whose values it reflects

Jessica Berman, Director of the Dresher Center for the Humanities, Professor of English; Gender Women’s & Sexuality Studies; and Language, Literacy and Culture, UMBC. As the BBC turns 100...

Posted: October 17, 2022, 1:08 PM

UMBC humanities faculty pursue groundbreaking archival research through over $135,000 in prestigious fellowships

Humanities faculty Elizabeth Patton, Mirjam Voerkelius, and Amy Froide have received prestigious research fellowships totaling over $135,000 to explore archives and reveal new findings about...

Posted: October 12, 2022, 8:33 AM

Biden again indicates that US will defend Taiwan ‘militarily’ – does this constitute a change in policy?

Meredith Oyen, Associate Professor of History and Asian Studies, UMBC. President Joe Biden has – not for the first time – suggested that the U.S. would intervene “militarily” should China...

Posted: September 19, 2022, 4:07 PM

UMBC students explore South Korea, Japan through new Education Abroad Access Fund

Amber Gist ‘23, computer science, has been interested in studying in South Korea for years. When she learned that UMBC offered a program in Seoul, she knew the university would be a great fit for...

Posted: July 20, 2022, 8:15 AM

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