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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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Retrievers buck ‘traditional’ timelines and redefine success

Evangeline Kirigua—mother, grandmother, immigrant, community college transfer student, civic entrepreneur—might have felt like the epitome of a “non-traditional” college student, but as she got...

Posted: May 12, 2021, 8:39 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

UMBC’s Faith Davis is named a 2021 Newman Civic Fellow for work on healthcare, food, and housing insecurity

Faith Davis ‘22, M30, sociology and biological sciences, grew up in Mechanicsville, a small town in Maryland. Her family regularly welcomed people in need of temporary housing into their home....

Posted: May 11, 2021, 9:52 PM

UMBC education faculty and partners work to humanize K-12 distance learning

When schools had to shift to distance learning due to COVID-19, UMBC’s Keisha McIntosh Allen, assistant professor of language and literacy education, and Kindel Turner Nash, associate professor of...

Posted: April 30, 2021, 5:02 PM

UMBC Mock Trial defeats Yale to win first national championship

Looking out her window at the blue sky on Sunday, UMBC Mock Trial President Sydney Gaskins ‘21, political science, remembers thinking, “What a beautiful day to win a national championship.” But...

Posted: April 20, 2021, 3:50 PM

UMBC’s Erle Ellis and international team show people have shaped Earth’s ecology for 12,000 years

New research published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) shows that land use by human societies has reshaped ecology across most of Earth’s land for at least...

Posted: April 15, 2021, 5:39 PM

URCAD 2021 showcases creativity, resilience of UMBC student researchers

UMBC’s Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement Day (URCAD) has burst out of the ballroom and onto computer screens around the world. For the second year in a row, the popular undergraduate...

Posted: April 12, 2021, 3:46 AM

Kizzmekia Corbett ’08 talks to CNN about Meyerhoff Scholars, vaccine hesitancy

Kizzmekia Corbett ’08, M16, biological sciences and sociology, is the lead scientist of the research team that developed the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at the National Institute of Allergy and...

Posted: April 5, 2021, 4:43 PM

UMBC celebrates U.S. News Best Grad School rankings in engineering, public affairs

Announced today, 2022 U.S. News Best Graduate School Rankings name several UMBC programs in engineering and public affairs as among the best in the nation. U.S. News bases these rankings on a...

Posted: March 30, 2021, 12:00 PM

UMBC ranks in the top 100 public universities to receive federal research funding

In the latest Higher Education Research and Development (HERD) survey, UMBC has ranked among the United States’ top 100 public institutions in federal research support. The annual survey...

Posted: March 29, 2021, 9:40 PM

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