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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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UMBC faculty share knowledge and passion during Diversity in Cybersecurity, Brunei event

Over two weeks at the end of January, six UMBC faculty woke up early to deliver lectures and lead workshops with students more than 9,000 miles away, in the small Asian nation of Brunei, located...

Posted: March 22, 2024, 4:12 PM

How to stay in touch—4 steps to being a prolific pen pal

Headshot of Winona Caesar ’09 in her letter writing “command station.” (Marlayna Demond ’11/UMBC) With Winona Caesar ’09, American studies and history As a first-year student—before...

Posted: March 22, 2024, 10:05 AM

‘Your work is so important,’ White House environmental justice leader tells UMBC ICARE trainees

UMBC’s Interdisciplinary Consortium for Applied Research in the Environment (ICARE) program, a cohort-based master’s program focused on local environmental research, held its first annual ICARE...

Posted: March 14, 2024, 4:18 PM

Ballet dancer Misty Copeland shares personal mission in visit with students at UMBC

By Lisa Traiger Misty Copeland is a ballerina on a mission—and last week she brought that mission to UMBC. Renowned for both her ethereality and powerful muscularity, as well as her activism...

Posted: March 14, 2024, 1:16 PM

Meet a Retriever—Madelyn “Maddy” Pollack ’24, Humanities Scholar and Honors College member

Madelyn (“Maddy”) Pollack ’24, history, is a Humanities Scholar and a member of the Honors College. She is pursuing minors in public history and Judaic studies, and she is active in Hillel and...

Posted: March 12, 2024, 12:36 PM

Dean Moffitt interviewed about media and Black hair and body politics

Kimberly R. Moffitt, dean of UMBC’s College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, speaks about the inspiration for and journey of her career in an interview with mastersincommunications.com,...

Posted: March 7, 2024, 12:44 PM

The Anthropocene is not an epoch − but the age of humans is most definitely underway

Written by Erle C. Ellis, professor of geography and environmental systems, UMBC. When people talk about the “Anthropocene,” they typically picture the vast impact human societies are having...

Posted: March 7, 2024, 11:41 AM

7 ways to spring into the arts at UMBC

As flowers start popping up on campus and we get some warmer (if rainy) days, it’s the perfect time to go out and catch some of the arts events happening at UMBC. Whether you need a break from...

Posted: March 5, 2024, 11:59 AM

Turkey will stop sending imams to German mosques – here’s why this matters

Written by Brian Van Wyck, assistant professor of history, UMBC For decades, the Turkish government has sent imams to work in mosques across Germany. But the German Ministry of the Interior...

Posted: February 20, 2024, 1:07 PM

Résumés in hand, 2,000+ hopeful and prepared Retrievers attend the 2024 Career Fair

On a perfect 55-degree sunny February day, hundreds of undergraduate and graduate students across all colleges stood in a line that began at the RAC and wrapped its way to Sherman Hall. Instead of...

Posted: February 15, 2024, 4:23 PM

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