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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 celebrates our outstanding community at annual Presidential Faculty and Staff Awards

Members of the UMBC community gathered this week to celebrate members of the faculty and staff who received Presidential Faculty and Staff awards, University System of Maryland awards, and...

Posted: May 6, 2024, 10:16 AM

Month of Earth Day events culminates with 8th Annual Earth Day Symposium

UMBC’s strength in environmental research spans all three colleges and the university’s NASA-partnered centers, and Earth Day is always a special time on campus. This year, UMBC partnered with the...

Posted: May 3, 2024, 3:58 PM

UMBC students receive prestigious Goldwater Scholarship for fifth consecutive year

For the fifth consecutive year, multiple UMBC students have been awarded a Barry Goldwater Scholarship. Gabriel Otubu ’25, biochemistry, Nathaniel Glover ’25, chemical engineering, and Samuel...

Posted: May 2, 2024, 11:17 AM

Ph.D. student Jonas Miller receives USM Student Excellence Scholarship

Jonas Miller, Ph.D. candidate in the marine, estuarine, and environmental science graduate program, has received the 2024 University System of Maryland Board of Regents Student Excellence...

Posted: May 1, 2024, 9:51 AM

Watch: A recap of URCAD 2024

UMBC’s Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement Day (URCAD) returned earlier this month for its 28th year, bringing together more than 400 student presenters and the broader university...

Posted: April 25, 2024, 8:42 AM

First CNMS GradFest fosters interdepartmental interaction among grads, postdocs

On April 12, more than 150 students, staff, and faculty attended the first College of Natural and Mathematical Sciences (CNMS) GradFest in the University Center Ballroom. The event was the result...

Posted: April 23, 2024, 10:09 AM

UMBC partners with American Statistical Association to organize annual African International Conference on Statistics

The eighth iteration of the African International Conference on Statistics (AIC), scheduled for June 2024 in Tunis, Tunisia, will mark a new era for the conference. Originally championed by Bimal...

Posted: April 17, 2024, 4:22 PM

Inaugural CNMS Science Discovery Series hits the mark with community audience

The College of Natural and Mathematical Sciences (CNMS) hosted its first CNMS Science Discovery Series event on March 27. In this public series, CNMS faculty members present talks on a variety of...

Posted: April 17, 2024, 4:15 PM

From thousands to millions to billions to trillions to quadrillions and beyond: Do numbers ever end?

Written by Manil Suri, professor of mathematics, UMBC Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to...

Posted: April 15, 2024, 10:39 AM

Stitching it all together, or how Ephraim Ruttenberg ’25 got hooked on math and crochet

In the back of a classroom, at a desk strewn with a colorful palette of commingled notebooks and skeins of yarn, sits Ephraim Ruttenberg ’25, mathematics. His fingers nimbly and nearly...

Posted: April 11, 2024, 3:18 PM

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