Engineering and Computing Education Program News

In her day job as a vice president at the advanced technology company Booz Allen Hamilton, Catherine Ordun, Ph.D. ’23, information systems, leads teams of engineers working on far-out AI tech. In...

Meet Brandon Dudley ’04, English. Since graduation, Brandon has pursued his passion for writing and teaching—skills he honed while at UMBC. For almost 20 years, Brandon has been teaching English,...

Meet Margaret Chisolm ’80, visual arts with a concentration in film. After graduating from UMBC, Margaret was accepted into graduate school at NYU in cinema studies, but decided to go to medical...

The Retriever Weekly announces the new dorms opening in 1970. (UMBC Special Collections) “Hey UMBC, and welcome to my crib!” That’s probably not verbatim what students said when UMBC’s first...

The tantalizing aroma of food from everyone’s favorite UMBC alumni-founded restaurant, Ekiben, wafts through the air of the Albin O. Kuhn Library and Gallery. People are drawn in by the steamed...

Meet Mariam Yaldram ’20, history, a graduate from UMBC at the Universities at Shady Grove with a passion for education, disability justice, and global citizenship. She is a special education...

The following message was shared with the UMBC community on May 12 to announce the naming of a new vice president for UMBC’s Office of Institutional Advancement: * * * * * Dear UMBC...

A bright yellow bead slides over a red pipe cleaner, then a blue bead followed by green. Soon, the rainbow of beads and wire is twisted this way and that until it resembles the Big Dipper. This...

When associate professor of visual arts Kelley Bell thinks back to her childhood growing up in the Capitol Hill area of Washington, D.C., she recalls fond memories of playing in her neighborhood...

Williams and a Jibo robot show some UMBC pride. (Photo courtesy of Williams) As a senior in high school in Prince George’s County, Maryland, Randi Williams ’16, computer engineering, was...