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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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3 Global Conditions⁠—and a Map⁠—for Saving Nature and Using it Wisely

By Erle C. Ellis, professor of geography and environmental systems, UMBC, and James Watson, professor, The University of Queensland Nature urgently needs our help. Wild creatures, from songbirds...

Posted: October 25, 2019, 5:56 PM

UMBC’s Livewire new music festival celebrates its 10th anniversary

From October 24 through 27, UMBC’s department of music celebrates the tenth anniversary of its fall Livewire festival, an annual event that explores the classical music of our time through...

Posted: October 23, 2019, 8:52 PM

In Baltimore Revisited, UMBC and community authors reflect on the city’s history of inequality and resistance

UMBC’s Nicole King, American studies, and Kate Drabinski, gender, women’s, and sexuality studies, have published Baltimore Revisited. The anthology, edited with the University of Baltimore’s...

Posted: October 22, 2019, 4:31 PM

UMBC supports emerging higher ed leaders through ACE Fellows program

One of the pillars of UMBC is a commitment to supporting emerging leaders from all backgrounds and across all disciplines. This includes supporting the growth of diverse university faculty and...

Posted: October 22, 2019, 3:05 PM

UMBC spotlights the power of collaboration and community in opening of new science building, GRIT-X talks

During the height of UMBC Homecoming festivities on October 12, the university community and supporters from across Maryland gathered to celebrate the opening of UMBC’s Interdisciplinary Life...

Posted: October 21, 2019, 2:09 PM

Alumni Playwrights Produce Proxy and The Possible Place

Writing duo Alex Reeves ’16, acting, and Nell Quinn-Gibney ’17, acting, originally teamed up to create a parody of the Nickelodeon cartoon Kim Possible, performed in a lecture hall in the...

Posted: October 17, 2019, 4:09 PM

UMBC’s Ann Sofie Clemmensen explores The Kennedy Center’s REACH through choreography

On October 18 and 19, choreography by Ann Sofie Clemmensen, assistant professor of dance, will be presented at the new REACH expansion of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in...

Posted: October 17, 2019, 12:48 AM

Leaders in Teaching – Alumni Award Winners Raise the Bar

When La Jerne Terry Cornish first started classes at UMBC, her son was two years old, she was teaching full-time, and she had to drive 45 minutes to get to campus. The journey was never easy....

Posted: October 1, 2019, 1:53 PM

UMBC receives $2.8M from NSF for master’s program to prepare a diverse environmental science workforce

An interdisciplinary team of UMBC professors has received $2.8 million from the National Science Foundation to create a new master’s program focused on developing a more diverse environmental...

Posted: September 18, 2019, 8:44 PM

New UMBC study shows powerful effects of road salt and urban infrastructure on waterways

Increasing development worldwide, driven by urbanization and a growing human population, is having significant effects on our waterways. Baltimore is no exception to this trend. Because of its...

Posted: September 17, 2019, 8:57 PM

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