This year’s Homecoming brought Retrievers of all ages back to their alma mater. In many ways, Homecoming represented the very best of what UMBC has to offer, from reunions with lifelong friends spanning all of the university’s 52 years, to celebrations of the life of the mind, as well as plenty of fun on and off the field. Here are some highlights from this year’s Homecoming, held October 4-14, 2018. See the full collection of Homecoming 2018 photos here. 30th Anniversary of the Alumni Awards To celebrate 30 years of alumni excellence, UMBC greeted a packed concert hall full of… Continue Reading Homecoming 2018: Magic Retriever Moments
Two Meyerhoff Scholars Program alumnae, Kavita Krishnaswamy, M13, ’07, mathematics, and Tabassum Majid, M18, M.A. ’18, aging studies, ’10, interdisciplinary studies, have been included in the Baltimore Sun‘s “25 Women to Watch in 2018” annual listing. Read the article online here. Current Ph.D. student Kavita Krishnaswamy, who through her work as a roboticist focuses on giving people with severe disabilities greater independence, has invented voice command interfaces, and is working on another that responds to eye movement. Krishnaswamy, who lives with spinal muscular atrophy, a progressive disorder that severely limits her movement below the neck, works from home via a telepresence… Continue Reading Two Meyerhoff Alumnae Included in Sun “Women to Watch” List
During their annual gathering on campus this week, members of The 1966 Society (individuals who have included UMBC in their estate plans) gathered for a private tour of the exhibition, A Designed Life, lead by curator Peggy Re, associate professor, graphic design. Also joining the group were Symmes Gardner, director of the Center for Art Design and Visual Culture, and Selene LaMarca, an undergraduate student who helped design the exhibit. Following the tour, guests gathered for dinner to continue conversations inspired by the exhibition, which is on view through December 8. Learn more about joining the 1966 Society Header image: Peggy Re starts the tour.… Continue Reading 1966 Society Enjoys Tour of A Designed Life Exhibit
Rooted in the far corner, a leafy green plant has grown nearly across the office, curling around a large ticking clock, and hugging framed photographs a proud father has mounted on the wall. It keeps going, its stem and leaves circling the desktop monitor, dangling just beneath the ceiling. Below it sits its owner, “Bookstore Bob” Somers, mustachioed manager of the UMBC Bookstore. He brought a much smaller, nearly-dead version of the plant with him when the shop moved to The Commons from the University Center 16 years ago. “I thought I’d kill it right away,” he says, with his… Continue Reading Bookstore Bob Leaves the Building
More than 375 alumni and friends enjoyed a night of fun at this year’s annual UMBC Night at Oriole Park, on August 27. Guests enjoyed food in the bullpen and some snazzy UMBC-branded O’s caps — not to mention a 7-0 win over the Toronto Blue Jays! We hope to see you at an upcoming UMBC alumni event soon. Photos by Marlayna Demond ’11 for UMBC Magazine.
Imagine having the chance to put down your books and computers, and hit the open road. For a growing number of UMBC students, summer study abroad offers the opportunity to explore new cultures, meet interesting people, and see the beauties of the world first-hand. Continue Reading Postcards from Around the World: Study Abroad at UMBC
Alumni living and working in downtown Seattle gathered this month at Black Bottle for a celebration of all things #RetrieverNation. Dr. Keith Bowman, Dean of College of Engineering and Information Technology, shared news from campus over cocktails and hors d’oeuvres. Join us for a future alumni event
In piles on a table in the chilly back room of UMBC’s Special Collections office lie a science fiction lover’s dream: decades-worth of fanzines in all their hand-drawn, mimeographed glory. Compiled by amateur editors, they span topics from space travel to colonization to 1970s feminism. Fittingly, the students poring over the zines as part of UMBC’s new month-long Interdisciplinary CoLab research program are just as different as the titles they explore. One studies biochemistry, another computer science. The third has interests in communications and gender and women’s studies, and was thrilled to find connections in the sci-fi zine Janus. As… Continue Reading New CoLab Program Brings Interdisciplinary Approach to Summer Research
Graduates of the UMBC College of Engineering and Information Technology and those who now work in the IT field gathered for a networking happy hour this week at Jailbreak Brewing Company in Laurel. Highlights included a meet and greet with Dr. Keith Bowman, the new dean of the college, as well as plenty of food, drinks and connections with other IT&E Retriever alumni, faculty and staff. The event was sponsored by Raytheon. Learn more about upcoming alumni events here. Photos by Marlayna Demond ’11 for UMBC.
