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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 to partner with UMD, Army Research Lab to advance AI and autonomy through $68M collaboration

From surveillance tools to autonomous machines, countries around the world are ramping up their military artificial intelligence (AI) assets. Such robust technologies are necessary to protect the...

Posted: May 26, 2021, 10:01 AM

A Path Forward to Research

Ramin Ayanzadeh, Ph.D. ’20, was awarded a spot in the selective Computing Innovation Fellows program, designed to help recent Ph.D. graduates continue research despite COVID-19. Ayanzadeh...

Posted: May 25, 2021, 5:45 PM

Graduating with gratitude: UMBC welcomes a new class of alumni

Persistent. Innovative. Determined. These are the words UMBC’s commencement speakers returned to again and again to describe the Class of 2021. And despite a year of challenges—missing family and...

Posted: May 24, 2021, 4:54 PM

Graduating Retrievers find joy and career inspiration in supporting K-12 students and families

Each year, hundreds of Retrievers work with K-12 students and families across Greater Baltimore, providing tutoring, mentoring, introductions to new skills and interests, and supportive one-on-one...

Posted: May 20, 2021, 5:20 PM

UMBC’s 2021 grads advance research with public impact—from disaster response to assistive tech

Students from across all of UMBC’s colleges and schools are graduating this week having taken advantage of the unique undergraduate research opportunities and supportive mentorship UMBC offers....

Posted: May 20, 2021, 3:02 PM

Doing their homework: Graduating Retrievers use internships to jumpstart their careers

When the time came to start her college career, Sondheim Scholar Viviana Angelini ‘21 traded in the palm trees of Florida for all things Baltimore at UMBC. She had taken some classes at a local...

Posted: May 19, 2021, 4:13 PM

New UMBC grads find entrepreneurial ways to positively impact communities

Kiaron Bailey will soon become the very first graduate of UMBC’s new master’s degree program in community leadership, a path she hadn’t envisioned for herself while working in finance just a few...

Posted: May 18, 2021, 2:36 PM

UMBC together: Graduating Retrievers reflect on building community through conversations

When listeners tune in to the Retriever Tales podcast hosted by Tirzah Khan ‘21, information systems, who is graduating this week, they’ll hear UMBC voices sharing their journeys of finding and...

Posted: May 18, 2021, 2:48 AM

Strong finish: UMBC student-athletes discuss support and resilience in “one of the toughest years”

Due to the pandemic, the NCAA has offered senior college athletes around the country a waiver to compete for an extra year. Many fourth-year student-athletes at UMBC and around the country will...

Posted: May 14, 2021, 1:39 PM

UMBC celebrates 25th Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement Day with an expanded global audience

UMBC’s 25th Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement Day (URCAD) reached more viewers than ever before, with visitors connecting online from as far away as Spain, Indonesia, Nigeria,...

Posted: May 12, 2021, 7:04 PM

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