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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 students complete internships virtually amid COVID-19 pandemic

Each summer, hundreds of UMBC students complete summer internships to get hands-on experience related to their majors and career goals. The COVID-19 pandemic has moved many networking...

Posted: August 17, 2020, 1:46 PM

Kimberly Moffitt appointed interim dean of UMBC’s College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences

UMBC’s Kimberly Moffitt, professor of Language, Literacy & Culture and affiliate professor of Africana Studies, has been appointed Interim Dean of the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social...

Posted: August 6, 2020, 1:12 PM

UMBC’s Sydney Gaskins competes in the final round of Trial by Combat, a national mock trial championship

UMBC Mock Trial continues to reach new heights at a national level, even with COVID-19 impacting the competition season. Sydney Gaskins ’22, political science, finished as a runner-up in the final...

Posted: July 24, 2020, 8:00 PM

UMBC and Baltimore’s Lakeland Elementary/Middle School launch innovative online summer math program

UMBC’s Sherman STEM Teacher Scholars Program has launched an intensive virtual math incubator for Lakeland Elementary/Middle School in Baltimore City this summer. The free, voluntary five-week...

Posted: July 24, 2020, 6:55 PM

UMBC historian Constantine Vaporis brings samurai scholarship to the public through TED-Ed animation

UMBC’s Constantine Vaporis, professor of history, has partnered with TED-Ed Animations to produce A Day In The Life of A Teenage Samurai. This original video draws from over thirty years of...

Posted: July 23, 2020, 6:46 PM

UMBC’s Gloria Chuku is named the 2020 – 21 Lipitz Professor for her research on the Igbo people of Nigeria

Gloria Chuku, chair andprofessor of Africana studies, has been named UMBC’s Lipitz Professor of the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences (CAHSS) for 2020 – 21. This distinguished...

Posted: July 23, 2020, 6:32 PM

UMBC faculty on a mission to prepare robust, high-quality online classes for fall semester

In mid-March, UMBC faculty members converted from in-person classes to remote instruction in a matter of days. With virtually zero lead time and, for many, little experience with online teaching,...

Posted: July 9, 2020, 6:00 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

Library of Congress commissions UMBC’s Daniel Pesca to bring new work of music to the public during pandemic

The Library of Congress’s Coolidge Auditorium, one of the nation’s leading performing arts venues, is typically busy year-round, bustling with performers playing to capacity audiences. Now, with...

Posted: June 23, 2020, 3:28 AM

UMBC celebrates Dean Scott Casper, next president of the American Antiquarian Society

This fall, UMBC will bid farewell to one of its senior leaders as Scott Casper, dean of the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (CAHSS), departs the university to assume the presidency...

Posted: June 11, 2020, 1:06 PM

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