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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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Meet a Retriever—Amy Caballero ’22, new social worker with strong ties to UMBC-Shady Grove

Amy Caballero graduated from UMBC 2022 with her bachelor’s degree in social work. She stayed on at the Shady Grove campus to complete her master’s in social work from the University of Maryland,...

Posted: May 21, 2024, 1:13 PM

Charlotte Keniston, Ph.D. ’24—staff member, student, mentor, and a lifelong learner

For most people, obtaining a Ph.D. is a means to an end—authorship, professorship, a career destination. For Charlotte Keniston, it’s about the journey as a lifelong learner. After joining UMBC as...

Posted: May 20, 2024, 11:16 AM

Thirsty in paradise: Water crises are a growing problem across the Caribbean islands

Written by Farah Nibbs, assistant professor of emergency and disaster health systems at UMBC. In the popular imagination, the Caribbean is paradise, an exotic place to escape to. But behind...

Posted: May 14, 2024, 8:31 AM

Chuck Peake—Pioneer of UMBC’s economics program

As Charles “Chuck” Peake celebrated his 90th birthday late one December evening in 2022, a contingent of middle-aged investors, bankers, and academics—Retriever alumni of various decades—were...

Posted: May 8, 2024, 2:38 PM

How 19th-century Spiritualists ‘canceled’ the idea of hell to address social and political concerns

Written by Lindsay DiCuirci, associate professor of English at UMBC. Between Columbus and Cincinnati, Ohio, drivers pass a billboard on Interstate 71 that has achieved some internet fame....

Posted: May 8, 2024, 12:11 PM

UMBC’s first Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence shares unique research on neurodiversity in language teaching and learning

Neurodiversity inclusion and representation have been at the forefront of Michael Canale’s 20-year career in the disability services and education field. Canale, M.A. ’24, intercultural...

Posted: May 7, 2024, 1:43 PM

Neediest areas are being shortchanged on government funds − even with programs designed to benefit poor communities

Written by Eric Stokan, assistant professor of political science at UMBC; Aaron Deslatte, assistant professor of public administration at Indiana University, and Michael Overton, associate...

Posted: May 7, 2024, 1:38 PM

Ryan Bloom, English, receives 2024 Guggenheim Fellowship for translation

Ryan Bloom, senior lecturer in English, has received the 2024 Guggenheim Fellowship for translation to work on the first complete edition of the French-Algerian author Albert Camus’s notebooks,...

Posted: May 7, 2024, 9:33 AM

Meet a Retriever—Camilla Sandoval ’17, M.A. ’19, program coordinator for Maryland Humanities

Meet Camilla Sandoval ’17, history, M.A. ’19, historical studies, a first-generation student who spent part of her time on each of UMBC’s campuses before graduating and putting her studies to...

Posted: May 6, 2024, 12:33 PM

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

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