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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 Chess Team Travels to Maryland State House

Earlier this month UMBC’s chess team was formally recognized on the floor of the Maryland State Senate and the House with a citation from Speaker Pro Tem Adrienne Jones (UMBC, ’76, psychology)...

Posted: February 21, 2013, 3:53 PM

Baltimore Sun Features UMBC Faculty, Students in Front-Page BreakingGround Story

Today’s Baltimore Sun features a front-page story about students in two UMBC BreakingGround courses and projects through which people from UMBC are solving problems and working with community...

Posted: February 12, 2013, 7:17 PM

Inaugural Grants from the Hrabowski Fund for Innovation

FROM: Freeman Hrabowski, President Philip Rous, Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs We are delighted to announce the projects receiving inaugural grants from this fund. These...

Posted: February 4, 2013, 10:21 PM

UMB-UMBC Research and Innovation Partnership Seed Grant Program

TO: All Full-time, Tenure-Track Faculty FROM: Philip Rous, Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs I am delighted to announce a new joint UMBC-UMB Research and Innovation...

Posted: January 14, 2013, 3:25 PM

UMBC Named to Kiplinger’s “Best Values in Public Colleges”

UMBC has again made the Kiplinger’s Personal Finance list of the 100 best values in public higher education. The list ranks four-year colleges and universities that “deliver academic quality and...

Posted: January 2, 2013, 5:10 PM

UMBC Chess Team Ties for First Place Following the “World Series of Chess”

Credit: Marlayna Demond “The University of Maryland, Baltimore County chess team tied four other college teams for first place at the Pan-American Intercollegiate Team Chess Championship on...

Posted: January 2, 2013, 3:16 PM

Earnestine Baker, Executive Director of the Meyerhoff Program, to Retire

FROM: Greg Simmons, Vice President for Institutional Advancement & Keith Harmon, Director of the Meyerhoff Scholars Program Earnestine Baker announced Monday at a combined Meyerhoff Scholars...

Posted: December 10, 2012, 11:09 PM

Soccer’s Liam Paddock Becomes 5th Retriever Ever Named First Team Academic All-American

UMBC fullback Liam Paddock has been selected to the 2012 Capital One Academic All-America® Division I Men’s Soccer First Team, as selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America...

Posted: December 3, 2012, 11:44 PM

UMBC Staff Present Program at the 19th National Conference on Students in Transition

Diane Lee, Jill Randles and Jarrett Kealey from the Office of Undergraduate Education, along with Sarah Jewett from the Office of the Provost, presented “UMBC Transfer Seminars: The Future of...

Posted: October 19, 2012, 11:10 AM

Two Professors Discuss Collaboration in The Chronicle of Higher Education

In fall 2011, Michele Osherow, associate professor of English, and Manil Suri, professor of mathematics, collaborated to jointly teach a freshman seminar, “Mathematics and What It Means to be...

Posted: October 10, 2012, 3:29 PM

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