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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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From UMBC News and Magazine

Creating a Literary Space for the ‘Nobodies’

A literary magazine with Taco Bell as its touchstone? It’s actually not as cheesy as it sounds. Unwrap one of the two existing volumes and find: An essay that examines the Taco Bell Chalupa and...

Posted: August 21, 2020, 7:32 PM

Alumni Business Q&A: Precise Software Solutions

UMBC alumni businesses are doing what they can to stay strong and build community during these troubled times. UMBC Magazine will be publishing occasional interviews with alumni business owners to...

Posted: July 10, 2020, 2:37 PM

Change Agent Behind #BlackBirdersWeek

Before she graduated from UMBC, Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman’19, M26, mathematics, founded the Sadie Collective. Opoku-Agyeman describes it on her website as, “the first and only organization to date...

Posted: July 2, 2020, 4:08 PM

Medicine Without Borders

Coco Tang’s medical missions around the world would sound like a summer action movie if they weren’t a matter of life and death. Just behind the front lines of the battle of Mosul in Iraq,...

Posted: June 26, 2020, 7:19 PM

Coffee and Community

The plan began percolating in early 2017, when Gib Mason ’95, economics, presented a challenge to his Innovation, Creative Problem-Solving, and the Socialpreneur class: create a way to better...

Posted: June 11, 2020, 7:53 PM

Podcast Fever

Friendship first, story second. These have been the cornerstones of success for Count Me In, Riverdale, and Obsidian, three Retriever-made podcasts.  While their production paths differ, all...

Posted: June 9, 2020, 10:46 PM

A World of Opportunity

The stunning first-round upset of top-ranked and top-seeded Virginia in the NCAA Tournament two years ago put the UMBC men’s basketball program on the map in the United States. But the truth is,...

Posted: May 27, 2020, 9:10 PM