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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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Student-athlete represents UMBC and America East at NCAA Leadership Forum

Alex La Noire ’19, financial economics, recently attended the annual NCAA Student-Athlete Leadership Forum in Washington, D.C. As a member of the soccer team and a student highly dedicated to...

Posted: December 14, 2017, 4:03 PM

Idea competition serves as springboard for young entrepreneurs

Each fall, student entrepreneurs at UMBC pitch their big ideas – Shark Tank-style, no less – for potential funding. And each year, their ideas span disciplines, including everything from a comic...

Posted: November 29, 2017, 8:55 PM

UMBC receives $1.3 million grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to diversify economics Ph.D.s

The UMBC economics department has received a $1.3 million grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to increase the number of students from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups who complete...

Posted: November 27, 2017, 2:04 PM

UMBC’s Maurice Berger launches new research projects with the CADVC

This fall, the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture (CADVC), celebrates the launch of four significant projects by research professor Maurice Berger, who through his curatorial...

Posted: November 21, 2017, 1:53 AM

UMBC’s Michelle R. Scott receives the 2017 Letitia Woods Brown Article Prize

Michelle R. Scott, associate professor of history and Director of the Historical Studies Graduate Program, has received the 2017 Letitia Woods Brown Article Prize from the Association of Black...

Posted: November 17, 2017, 7:41 PM

Timothy Nohe exhibits at Washington College

Timothy Nohe, director of the Center for Innovation, Research and Creativity in the Arts (CIRCA) and professor of visual arts, is featured in a one-person exhibition at the Kohl Gallery on the...

Posted: November 10, 2017, 9:09 PM

Annual Critical Social Justice events focus on themes of resilience and resistance

Critical Social Justice (CSJ): Rise began outside the confines of a lecture hall last week, bringing the mission directly to the streets of UMBC. During the kickoff event, Chalking for Change,...

Posted: November 3, 2017, 8:29 PM

UMBC receives $6 million gift from the George and Betsy Sherman Family Foundation for two urban education initiatives

UMBC has received a $6 million gift from the George and Betsy Sherman Family Foundation to establish a new Center for Early Learning in Urban Communities and expand the work of the Sherman STEM...

Posted: November 2, 2017, 9:54 AM

George Derek Musgrove launches book at the National Museum of African American History and Culture

George Derek Musgrove ’97, associate professor of history, launched his new book Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation’s Capital, University of North Carolina Press, with...

Posted: November 1, 2017, 8:33 PM

Charissa Cheah receives Fulbright award to research identity development of Muslim Tunisian immigrant adolescents in Sicily

Charissa Cheah, professor of psychology, has received a Fulbright to collaborate with psychologists at the University of Palermo in Sicily to explore Muslim Tunisian immigrant adolescent identity...

Posted: October 31, 2017, 7:33 PM

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