Why COVID-19 won’t kill cities
When density is no longer cursed by contagion, cities will reassert their magic, through their ability to enhance sharing, matching, and learning. Continue Reading Why COVID-19 won’t kill cities
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As public health becomes increasingly digital, systems engineering will begin to fill this critical public health knowledge gap. Continue Reading Engineering can contribute to a reimagining of the US public health system Ricardo Zwaig was close to dropping out of school, but an unexpected financial gift allowed him to complete his degree. Now a judge, he’s giving back. Continue Reading An Act of Kindness Inspires a Legacy We look forward to 2021 and beyond, we share a common hope, to once again be in community with one another. Continue Reading We Have 2021 Vision UMBC women’s lacrosse coach Amy Slade is inducted into the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame. Continue Reading Goals Achieved As an international student advisor, Adwoa Hanson-Hall knows first-hand how important it is to have someone who knows the ins-and-outs of education abroad. Continue Reading Retrievers Behind the Scenes—Adwoa Hanson-Hall The Ellume COVID-19 Home Test is expected to cost US$30, is easy to use, and produces results within 20 minutes. But it still has its limitations. Continue Reading FDA authorized first over-the-counter COVID-19 test – useful but not a game changer What happens when you sit down three key players in Alumni Relations and Development who span UMBC’s history? You learn that some things haven’t changed. Continue Reading Shop Talk In some cases, it allows females to generate their own mating partners. Continue Reading Virgin births from parthenogenesis: How females from some species can reproduce without males We were deeply saddened this weekend to hear of the passing of William Rothstein, a beloved founding faculty member of UMBC. He was 83. We will remember him as one of the most exemplary professors we have known—a caring colleague, teacher, social scientist, and friend. Bill was an emeritus professor of sociology at UMBC who devoted his career to our students. After earning his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1965, he joined the UMBC faculty in 1966, when classes first began at the university. He was promoted to associate professor in 1969 and to professor in 1988. He continued to… Continue Reading Remembering Dr. William Rothstein, founding UMBC faculty member In a recent essay, President Hrabowski notes, “In difficult times, we come to know who we are.” Never has that been more true than this year or at this point in our nation’s history. Continue Reading Call & Response Theresa Bruce didn’t set out to be a teacher—she had her sights set on being a hot-shot lawyer. So how to explain her last decade as a city teacher? Continue Reading Finding Joy in the Classroom
Engineering can contribute to a reimagining of the US public health system
An Act of Kindness Inspires a Legacy
We Have 2021 Vision
Goals Achieved
Retrievers Behind the Scenes—Adwoa Hanson-Hall
FDA authorized first over-the-counter COVID-19 test – useful but not a game changer
Shop Talk
Virgin births from parthenogenesis: How females from some species can reproduce without males
Remembering Dr. William Rothstein, founding UMBC faculty member
Call & Response
Finding Joy in the Classroom