Putting the principles of education to work
There are some people who you meet, and it’s obvious:… Continue Reading Putting the principles of education to work
There are some people who you meet, and it’s obvious:… Continue Reading Putting the principles of education to work
Artillery booms in the distance as men hurriedly button up their scratchy wool uniforms and grab their muskets. The smell of campfires and horses intertwine with shouts, neighs, and gunfire.Â
“It was a sensory overload,” remembers Jim Bailey ’03, M.A. ’07, history, of the recreated battles and camps he saw during 125th anniversary Civil War events. “At the age of eight, it wasn’t that I was reading books and studying history. It was something I could see. Smell. Hear. Feel.”
Exactly what Bailey would do with his early love for immersive history, however, wasn’t clear until a class during his first year at UMBC, when a park ranger from nearby Fort McHenry National Monument & Historic Shrine in Baltimore City gave a guest talk on volunteering for the National Park Service. By December of 1998, 18-year-old Bailey was signed up as a Volunteer-in-Parks, the first step in a long career that has led him to his current position as superintendent of both Appomattox Court House National Historical Park and Booker T. Washington National Monument. Continue Reading Preserving history’s mark—one tree, one brick, one story at a time
Bentley Corbett-Wilson ’17, music education, M.A. ’20, teaching, is UMBC’s… Continue Reading Alum Bentley Corbett-Wilson trumpets the pep band and school spirit
Safiyah Cheatam, M.F.A. ’21, intermedia and digital arts, always has… Continue Reading From nurture to apocalypse (and back again) —The Mundane Afrofuturism of multimedia artist Safiyah Cheatam Â
The most recent artworks by Hadieh Shafie, M.F.A. ’04, intermedia… Continue Reading Squaring the Circle: The Powerful Art of Hadieh Shafie
Very few Retrievers can say they’ve spent as many years… Continue Reading Retriever for Life
For more than a decade, Rita Choula was the primary… Continue Reading Caregiving Goes Both Ways
UMBC is a young institution—and not only do we have… Continue Reading UMBC Belongs to All of Us
Meet Hope Weisman ’14, psychology, M.A. ’18, applied sociology, a… Continue Reading Meet a Retriever—Hope Weisman ’14, M.A. ’18, transfer student advocate
When asked to describe the cinematic masterpiece that is Cocaine… Continue Reading Grin and Bear It
When Chris Peregoy ’81, visual and performing arts, M.F.A. ’99,… Continue Reading How to Make a Pinhole Camera
Terry Smith ’00 has been at Alphabet X just shy of two years, working to find ways to use Google technology to benefit all things ocean. Continue Reading Out of office—Developing underwater technologies to best support ocean life