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UMBC Leadership
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Senior Leadership Team
Meet UMBC’s Senior Leadership team—a dynamic group of accomplished individuals shaping the future of higher education. UMBC’s leaders are dedicated to driving innovation and fostering student success.
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UMBC Mission & Vision
At UMBC, we combine grit and supportive community to reach excellence across the board. We value each other as whole people and come together to learn, solve problems, create new things, and just have fun.
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UMBC is a member of the University System of Maryland
A 21-member Board of Regents, including two students, governs the University System of Maryland. Appointed by the governor, president of the senate, and the speaker of the house, the regents oversee the system’s academic, administrative, and financial operations; formulate policy; and appoint the USM chancellor and the presidents of the system’s 12 institutions.
UMBC Campus News
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Christopher K. Tong, MLLI, returns from a research award in Mongolia to inform his work in Asian studies
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Karen Chen wins NSF CAREER award to build tools to empower students with data
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UMBC’s exploratory artist in residence Levester Williams examines history of Cockeysville marble in film project
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Three decades of student mentoring earns UMBC chemist Paul Smith the Braude Award
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Partnership with biotech giant Genentech benefits UMBC graduate students