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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For a university that’s only turning 50 next year, UMBC has already developed some pretty significant stories. The Doyle family story, which begins with the Fab Four graduating class of 1970 and...
Posted: October 27, 2015, 1:30 PM
One of the things that makes UMBC great is how wonderful our alumni, students, faculty, and staff are. Because of these amazing people, UMBC often finds itself “in the news,” so each week, we’ll...
Posted: October 23, 2015, 2:16 PM
Did you know…? The UMBC Alumni Association sponsors an Alumni Insurance Program as a service to our graduates. The program offers a variety of attractively priced insurance products, most of...
Posted: October 19, 2015, 2:08 PM
One of the things that makes UMBC great is how wonderful our alumni, students, faculty, and staff are. Because of these amazing people, UMBC often finds itself “in the news,” so each week, we’ll...
Posted: October 15, 2015, 8:57 PM
Katie Feild ’05, visual arts, has always loved stories: creating them, illustrating them, binding them in books. She went to graduate school to get better at writing them. In her current job at...
Posted: October 12, 2015, 1:00 PM
A message from our President and Provost: The UMBC community’s journey started when the University welcomed its first students on September 19, 1966. We are delighted now to provide a preview of...
Posted: October 9, 2015, 8:51 PM
One of the things that makes UMBC great is how wonderful our alumni, students, faculty, and staff are. Because of these amazing people, UMBC often finds itself “in the news,” so each week, we’ll...
Posted: October 8, 2015, 7:06 PM
In the weeks leading up to the Alumni Awards Ceremony, we’ll be profiling each of this year’s honorees in detail here on the blog. Our last winner, in the Distinguished Service category, is Howard...
Posted: October 7, 2015, 1:00 PM
Every so often, we’ll chat with an alum about what they do and how they got there. Today we catch up with Lauren Bucca ’13, English, who, after an internship in the Medieval Manuscripts Library at...
Posted: October 6, 2015, 1:05 PM
In the weeks leading up to the Alumni Awards Ceremony, we’ll be profiling each of this year’s honorees in detail here on the blog. Today we introduce our Engineering and Information Technology...
Posted: October 5, 2015, 1:00 PM