Sahler '89 Silkscreen Featured on Shore Site

Jul 9, 2012 / 1 minute of reading

Alumnus Erick Sahler ’89, Graphic Design and Art History, was featured on the news site Delmarvanow.com on June 28th, with a focus on his latest silkscreen print for purchase. The piece, entitled “Summer of ’61,” is based on a photograph of the time, depicting the Chincoteague, VA’s Island Theatre with its marquee featuring the 1961 film adaptation of Misty of Chincoteague, and a ’55 Ford in the foreground. Sahler, who worked for Salisbury, MD’s The Daily Times as managing editor from 1989 to 2011, currently sells his artwork and screen prints under his “Erick Sahler Serigraphs” moniker, which was launched… Continue Reading Sahler '89 Silkscreen Featured on Shore Site

IT & Engineering Retrievers Mix and Mingle at Pub Dog

Jun 28, 2012 / 1 minute of reading

More than 70 alumni and friends enjoyed pizza and drinks at the 2012 IT & Engineering Happy Hour. The event, which welcomed all UMBC alumni with a special focus on those from the College of Engineering and Information Technology, was sponsored by the UMBC Training Centers and held at Pub Dog of Columbia. Alumni enjoyed the chance to unwind after work while connecting with fellow Retrievers. Check out all the great photos from this event on Flickr or Facebook. About Our Sponsor UMBC Training Centers extends the academic excellence of UMBC to working professionals and organizations through the delivery of… Continue Reading IT & Engineering Retrievers Mix and Mingle at Pub Dog

Student Success Takes Your Support

Jun 26, 2012 / 2 minutes of reading

Every day, we in the office of Alumni Relations hear about students making the most of their time here at UMBC…and beyond! However, many of these students wouldn’t be able to attend UMBC without the scholarship support they receive. There are students like Jeremy, who fell in love with the poetry of Marlowe and Donne and took acting classes at UMBC. We just found out he got a great job in publishing after graduation — congratulations, Jeremy! There are students like dance major Paige, whose life was turned around by the chance to volunteer in Haiti as junior. We got… Continue Reading Student Success Takes Your Support

Gary Kachadourian ’12, MFA, to Participate in MAP’s Young Blood 2012

Jun 20, 2012 / 1 minute of reading

Gary Kachadourian ’12, MFA imaging and digital arts, will be participating in the Maryland Art Place’s Young Blood 2012: Work by Recent MFA Graduates exhibition this summer. In addition to Kachadourian’s large-scale installation, the fifth annual exhibition will feature work by artists from the Maryland Institute College of Art, The University of Maryland-College Park and Towson University. The exhibition runs from July 18th to August 25th, and will feature an artists’ talks and reception at 6 p.m. on the 18th. For more information, visit the Maryland Art Place’s website here. Kachadourian was one of three 2011 winners of the Mary Sawyers… Continue Reading Gary Kachadourian ’12, MFA, to Participate in MAP’s Young Blood 2012

Sawyers '99, History, Shares Memories of Father in Baltimore Sun

Jun 18, 2012 / 1 minute of reading

Seth Sawyers ’99, history, published an op-ed about childhood memories of his dad in the Father’s Day issue of the Baltimore Sun. Sawyers, who recently finished a memoir about growing up in the Maryland Appalachians in the 1980s, also teaches writing classes at UMBC. An excerpt from the piece: I just bought a little red car, and the other day, at a stoplight, I looked down at my hand on the stick shift, and suddenly I was seven years old, sitting in the back of our little red Ford Escort, and Dad was taking us fishing. My dad had a… Continue Reading Sawyers '99, History, Shares Memories of Father in Baltimore Sun

Blumberg '93, English, Talks Zombies in the Baltimore Sun

Jun 18, 2012 / 1 minute of reading

The zombie trend continues to spread across the pop cultural landscape and shows little sign of slowing down. Speaking with The Baltimore Sun‘s John-John Williams IV for a June 9 story entitled “Pop culture’s undying affection for zombies“, Arnold Blumberg ’93, English, an adjunt faculty member in UMBC’s English department and co-author of Zombiemania: 80 Movies to Die For, illustrated the history of this now-ubiquitous staple of modern popular culture, as well as theorizing as to why the walking undead seem to have captured our culture’s imagination in recent times. “There has never been a figure that has reflected all the… Continue Reading Blumberg '93, English, Talks Zombies in the Baltimore Sun

Video: The Beats Go On

Jun 13, 2012 / 1 minute of reading

In Spring 2012, we wrote about Jerry Cimino ’76, history, founder of San Francisco’s Beat Museum, which he founded in 2003 at 540 Broadway to pay homage to a generation of writers and artists who continue to inspire him. In this video, watch Jerry recite from memory “Sometime During Eternity” from Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s A Coney Island of the Mind. Read his full story, The Beats Go On, here. Video by Jenny O’Grady.

Lowering the Odds – Mary Loeken ’80, M.S., BioSci

Jun 6, 2012 / 4 minutes of reading

Before the discovery of insulin in 1922, children and adults who developed Type 1 diabetes usually died within a few months of the disease’s onset. That all changed when insulin became widely available, but women with diabetes still faced another challenge: significant odds that their offspring would be born with birth defects. Even today, women diagnosed with diabetes (either Type 1 or Type 2) before they become pregnant have a greater risk of having a child with a severe birth defect than nondiabetic women. In her laboratory at the Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston, Mary Loeken ’80, M.S., biological sciences,… Continue Reading Lowering the Odds – Mary Loeken ’80, M.S., BioSci

Lowering the Odds – Mary Loeken '80, M.S., BioSci

Jun 6, 2012 / 4 minutes of reading

Musgrove '97 Joins UMBC History Faculty

May 31, 2012 / 2 minutes of reading

The Department of History is pleased to announce the addition of alumnus George Derek Musgrove to its faculty, beginning this fall. Musgrove attended UMBC from 1993-1997, obtaining a B.A. in history. He then proceeded to obtain the 2003-2004 Anne E. Plato predoctoral fellowship at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, the 2007-2008 postdoctoral fellowship in the Center for African American Urban Studies and the Economy at Carnegie Mellon University, and his Ph.D. in U.S. History at New York University in 2005. He is the author of Rumor, Repression, and Racial Politics: How Harassment of Black Elected Officials Shaped Post-Civil Rights America (University… Continue Reading Musgrove '97 Joins UMBC History Faculty

Congratulations to the Class of 2012!

May 21, 2012 / 1 minute of reading

We’re excited to welcome you all to the UMBC Alumni Association! Read more about the perks of being an alum at our New Grads Page! Read stories about the Class of 2012 here.

How To Tell the Difference Between Alumna/us/ae/i

May 16, 2012 / 1 minute of reading

Tis the season of brand-new graduates! Which means, it’s also a great time for a fun refresher in one of the trickiest necks of Latin: alumni-dom. Check out this quick video for a lesson in the differences between the words alumna, alumnus, alumnae and alumni. Which version of proud alum are you?

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