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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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Lee Blaney assumes presidency of the Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors

Professor Lee Blaney, in the Department of Chemical, Biochemical, and Environmental Engineering, formally assumed the role of president of the Association of Environmental Engineering and Science...

Posted: September 16, 2024, 10:12 AM

UMBC hosts “NASA Days” event series with Goddard Space Flight Center

UMBC is collaborating with the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) to host an interactive, three-day event series that takes a closer look into the center’s current research activity, with...

Posted: September 13, 2024, 4:04 PM

Record number of new Retrievers join UMBC this year

UMBC’s 2024 fall semester is already poised to be one for the record books. With 2,250 new first-year undergraduate students, UMBC officially enrolled the university’s largest entering class in...

Posted: September 4, 2024, 10:33 AM

UMBC students expand skill sets, explore career opportunities with summer 2024 internships

This summer, UMBC students have hit the ground running in exploration of possible post-graduation opportunities with internship placements across a wide range of industries and career fields that...

Posted: August 28, 2024, 9:39 AM

Incoming Athletics Director Tiffany Tucker brings student-centric leadership to the role

She may be new to Retriever Nation, but it seems like Tiffany D. Tucker won’t have any problem as UMBC’s leader of the pack. Addressing a crowd of student-athletes, administrators, coaches, and...

Posted: July 23, 2024, 12:47 PM

UMBC welcomes Tiffany D. Tucker as new athletics director

In an email to the campus community, UMBC President Valerie Sheares Ashby has announced that Tiffany D. Tucker will join the university August 15 as Director of Athletics, Physical Education, and...

Posted: July 16, 2024, 1:00 PM

UMBC’s exploratory artist in residence Levester Williams examines history of Cockeysville marble in film project

Since 2014, multimedia artist Levester Williams has developed a personal connection and exploration with a natural material that is a historic staple of Baltimore life—Cockeysville, Maryland,...

Posted: July 15, 2024, 2:48 PM

UMBC Center for Global Engagement welcomes its second cohort of the Young African Leaders Initiative

This summer, UMBC’s Center for Global Engagement (CGE) is excited to welcome its second cohort of the prestigious Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders, the six-week flagship...

Posted: June 18, 2024, 1:55 PM

Capping years of rising success, UMBC chemical engineering club shines as student conference hosts

On the first weekend of April, hundreds of chemical engineering students from across the Mid-Atlantic converged on the UMBC campus for two days of learning, networking, and friendly competition....

Posted: May 30, 2024, 12:51 PM

CNMS Awards and Recognition Day honors students, faculty, and staff

The College of Natural and Mathematical Sciences (CNMS) held its annual CNMS Awards and Recognition Day on May 10. Nearly 270 UMBC community members and friends attended the event in the...

Posted: May 17, 2024, 3:55 PM

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