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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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Students in UMBC’s ICARE program connect scientific research with community

Bats as biomonitors, community connections to the zero-waste movement, and oyster aquaculture are just a few of the topics that students in UMBC’s Interdisciplinary Consortium for Applied Research...

Posted: September 19, 2022, 12:58 PM

U.S. News highlights UMBC’s national leadership in teaching, innovation, diversity

The 2022–23 U.S. News and World Report Best Colleges undergraduate rankings released this week illustrate why a record number of students chose to call UMBC home this fall. This year’s rankings...

Posted: September 13, 2022, 4:34 PM

UMBC’s new AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellows focus on STEM workforce inclusion, youth justice

Erin Lavik, professor of chemical, biochemical, and environmental engineering at UMBC, is an innovator in developing nanoparticles to stop internal bleeding. She’s also hard at work on a very...

Posted: September 8, 2022, 4:57 PM

UMBC opens new academic year with new president, largest-ever incoming class

“ “This is a time when you begin to define what you love, what really matters to you, who you want to be in this world, and what difference you want to make in the lives of...

Posted: September 1, 2022, 3:02 PM

UMBC’s Chris Swan awarded NSF funding for U.S.-Brazil partnership on stream biodiversity

A new collaboration between scientists in the U.S. and Brazil hopes to increase our ability to predict how biological communities may change in a warming world. The researchers will investigate...

Posted: August 29, 2022, 6:04 PM

UMBC’s Nkiru Nnawulezi and D.C. community partners make the case for survivor-centered housing services

In fall 2016 the DC Coalition Against Domestic Violence (DCCADV) approached Nkiru Nnawulezi for her help collecting data on the experiences of domestic violence survivors in Washington D.C. She...

Posted: August 25, 2022, 11:50 AM

Why the big fuss over Nancy Pelosi’s possible visit to Taiwan?

Meredith Oyen, Associate Professor of History and Asian Studies, UMBC U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi hasn’t confirmed when – or even if – she is to visit Taiwan. Yet such is the sensitivity...

Posted: July 26, 2022, 4:35 PM

Lost in the Art: English major guards and curates paintings at Baltimore Museum of Art

A massive painting dwarfed Rob Kempton ’12, English, as he stood in a Baltimore Museum of Art gallery. In his security guard uniform, Kempton gestured to the swoop of orange oil paint on the...

Posted: July 25, 2022, 11:16 AM

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

Turning the Tides

For Christopher Tong, discovering clues hidden in texts documenting history’s most devastating floods isn’t just about the promise of making social, cultural, and political change. It’s also a...

Posted: July 14, 2022, 10:53 AM

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