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Because you attended UMBC, you know the university better than most. But even though you’re part of the on-campus community, I’m sure you have questions about the university, its traditions, and its history. As we prepare for UMBC’s 50th anniversary in 2016, we’re going to answer some of those questions about mysteries of campus history and culture but we want to hear from you and your questions about UMBC that you have always wondered about such as: “Why is there a silo at the entrance to campus? How did UMBC get its “free hour?” When did UMBC become a chess… Continue Reading You’ve Got Questions, We’ll Get You Answers Here at UMBC, we take pride in what our alums accomplish after graduation. Take a moment to see which Retrievers have been on the move and making news! Karina Velasco ’15, social work, shares her positive experience with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and calls for comprehensive immigration reform. She discusses how the recent executive order signed by President Obama has helped secure a life that would have been taken away. She is now able to maintain her job, health insurance, and driver’s license. Click here to learn more about Velasco’s story. Alfred Sanchez ’83 M.A., community/clinical psychology,… Continue Reading UMBC Alums Encourage Change in the Community Here at UMBC, we take pride in what our alums accomplish after graduation. Take a moment to see which Retrievers have been on the move and making news! Stephen Freeland, interdisciplinary studies, responds to a study on the role of chance in Earth’s mineral formation. In an article published by Wired, Freeland explains how vital minerals are in order to sustain life on Earth. According to Freeland, “Minerals pull order out of chaos…all of this swimming in an ocean of unknowns.” To read the full article, click here. Mehdi Benna, Center for Space Science and Technology, is the lead… Continue Reading UMBC Alums Excel in New Spacial Discoveries Here at UMBC, we take pride in what our alums accomplish after graduation. Take a moment to see which Retrievers have been on the move and making news! Monica Gallagher ’01, visual arts, wrote Part-Time Princesses, which was nominated as a Great Graphic Novel for Teens by the Young Adult Library Services Association. The graphic novel follows the lives of four girls’ plans after high school fall apart, go to work as costume princesses at a local amusement park and end up defending their job to a gang of local thugs. To find out more about Gallagher’s nomination, click here.… Continue Reading UMBC Alums Transform the Written Word What to do when you achieve a dream job before 30? Brigitte Pribnow Moore ’05, theatre, says you should expand the scope and ambition of that dream. Moore is the executive director of the Washington, D.C.-based Young Playwrights’ Theater (YPT), a group that fosters arts education in area schools via playwriting and allows highschool writers to collaborate with professional theatre makers to see their own work on the stage. The 2013 recipient of the UMBC Outstanding Alumni of the Year Award in the Visual and Performing Arts has big plans. Over the next three years, Moore aims to expand her… Continue Reading Young and Hungry
You’ve Got Questions, We’ll Get You Answers
UMBC Alums Encourage Change in the Community
UMBC Alums Excel in New Spacial Discoveries
UMBC Alums Transform the Written Word
Young and Hungry