Alternative Spring Break: Public Health

Dec 11, 2015 / 1 minute of reading

This week, we’ve been focusing on UMBC’s Alternative Spring Break trips, which give students the chance to go out into the world, make a difference, and learn more about issues affecting society on their week off in March. Today, we’re shining a light on the Public Health trip. Through this service-learning opportunity, students will learn about the Maryland through hands-on service projects in free clinics and health-focused nonprofit organizations throughout the city of Baltimore. This year’s trip, in particular, will focus on the issues of childhood obesity and food deserts in Baltimore. As with the other trips we’ve featured this week,… Continue Reading Alternative Spring Break: Public Health

Alternative Spring Break: Homelessness in Baltimore

Dec 9, 2015 / 1 minute of reading

Here on the giving blog, we’ve been giving you an look at UMBC’s Alternative Spring Break programs, which give students a chance to participate in a service learning project over the March holiday. This next trip takes students right into the city of Baltimore, where, over the course of one year, at least 30,000 people will experience homelessness at one point. Over their spring break, students will work on various projects throughout the city, and learn about how its homelessness problem intersects with poverty, crime, and other issues facing Baltimore. Your gift will go towards supplies, lodging, food, and transportation… Continue Reading Alternative Spring Break: Homelessness in Baltimore

Alternative Spring Break 2016: Gesundheit! Institute

Dec 7, 2015 / 1 minute of reading

As we near the end of the calendar year, we’d like to remind our community of the many places their gifts might go this holiday season. This week, we’ll be focusing on next year’s Alternative Spring Break trips. These provide a wonderful opportunity for students to spend their week off doing good for the communities and gaining a new understanding of the world. One of these trips will take students to Patch Adams’ Gesundheit! Institute. They’ll interact with patients, help maintain the grounds, and learn about Adams’ humanistic model of health care and the Institute’s approach to social justice. In past years… Continue Reading Alternative Spring Break 2016: Gesundheit! Institute

FY15 Donor Roll and Special Thanks!

Sep 24, 2015 / 1 minute of reading

We’d like to take a moment to honor all of our wonderful donors from the past fiscal year, which ended on June 30, 2015. Thanks to your generosity, UMBC continues to grow, and to provide all sorts of opportunities for students to succeed! View our FY2015 Hilltop Society and 1966 Society Donor Honor Roll.

Dr. Marilyn E. Demorest establishes new faculty advancement fund

Sep 18, 2015 / 3 minutes of reading

When Professor Emerita of Psychology Dr. Marilyn Demorest started teaching at UMBC in 1972, the university was six years old, and the psychology department had ten faculty members. As her career grew and developed, so did UMBC. By the time she retired in 2010, the school had exponentially increased in size, both in terms of enrollment and faculty hiring. The latter was one of Demorest’s many responsibilities as Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs from 1998 through her retirement. Her years of experience as both a professor and an administrator showed her the many challenges a university’s faculty may face. To… Continue Reading Dr. Marilyn E. Demorest establishes new faculty advancement fund

Cangialosi Business Innovation Competition creates a new platform for student startups

Sep 14, 2015 / 3 minutes of reading

Greg Cangialosi ‘96, English, has made a name for himself as a serial entrepreneur with a passion for helping others succeed. Since he graduated from UMBC, he has gone on to run two companies, and made it a personal mission to turn Baltimore into a hub for startup companies. To help support that initiative, the MissionTix CEO and co-founder of the startup incubator Betamore gave a generous gift to UMBC to establish the Cangialosi Business Innovation Competition. The CBIC launched last year through the Alex. Brown Center for Entrepreneurship to give undergraduate and graduate students an opportunity to develop and… Continue Reading Cangialosi Business Innovation Competition creates a new platform for student startups

Lipitz Professor Named

Jul 6, 2015 / 1 minute of reading

Shari Waldstein, professor of psychology, has been named the Lipitz Professor for 2015-2016. This professorship is supported by an endowment created by Roger C. Lipitz and the Lipitz Family Foundation “to recognize and support innovative and distinguished teaching and research in the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.” A clinical psychologist who specializes in cardiovascular behavioral medicine and medical neuropsychology, Dr. Waldstein is known internationally for fundamental contributions to the understanding of the links among early, multi-level risk factors for cardiovascular disease, sub-clinical brain pathology, neurocognitive performance, and their development across the lifespan. In… Continue Reading Lipitz Professor Named

Thank you for supporting UMBC!

Jul 1, 2015 / 1 minute of reading

On behalf of our students, faculty, staff, and alumni, we’d like to say thank you to all those who supported us in throughout the last fiscal year! Your contribution goes a long way in funding the #1 up-and-coming national university in the United States. Last year’s contributions made a big difference in funding some new and exciting developments on campus, including the grand opening of the Performing Arts and Humanities Building and the men’s soccer team’s journey to the NCAA tournament. Your gifts also provided support for student scholarship funds, new equipment and curricula to academic departments, grants for undergraduate… Continue Reading Thank you for supporting UMBC!

Building Our Collection

Jun 18, 2015 / 3 minutes of reading

If a university and its people are dedicated to the pursuit of knowledge, there is perhaps nowhere on campus that more embodies that mission than the library. That is surely true here on UMBC’s campus. Much more than books on shelves, the Albin O. Kuhn Library and Gallery is an engine for discovery, providing our students and faculty with the resources and support they need on their academic journey. This year, those resources grew thanks to Suzanne Schlenger. A member of the Friends of the Library since 2001, she recently established the Suzanne Schlenger Endowment for a Collection of American… Continue Reading Building Our Collection

Help INDS Develop New Courses and Curricula

Jun 5, 2015 / 1 minute of reading

Editor’s note: Here at UMBC, our students are the heartbeat of campus, and we are committed to providing them the best possible education. We’re highlighting our amazing academic departments, some of their recent achievements, and ways that you can help fund their continued excellence. Your gift is extremely important and many of our students are depending on you. Please show your support and make an impact today. With you we can make a difference. The Interdisciplinary Studies Program (INDS) is proud to have celebrated its 45th Anniversary this past year with over 1,200 students to have graduated with INDS degrees.… Continue Reading Help INDS Develop New Courses and Curricula

Inaugural Jodi Crandall Fellows Named

May 29, 2015 / 2 minutes of reading

UMBC has announced four recipients in the inaugural round of the Jodi Crandall Fellowship for Research in Language, Literacy & Culture. Named for The LLC Doctoral Program’s founder and professor emerita Dr. Jodi Crandall, the prizes will promote collaborative interdisciplinary research by LLC doctoral students. “The Jodi Crandall Fellowship will allow our doctoral students to pursue important interdisciplinary research in areas of increasingly pressing importance in our local Baltimore community and internationally; in very general terms, all of the Fellowships in 2015 will study issues involved in communicating across cultural borders,” said Dr. Craig Saper, Professor and Director of The Language, Literacy,… Continue Reading Inaugural Jodi Crandall Fellows Named

Inspiring Hope: The Choice Program

May 26, 2015 / 3 minutes of reading

Every day, kids in Maryland are at risk. These are kids who slip through the cracks, kids who, if given appropriate and individualized support, can be successful. That problem is one that a team at UMBC is trying to address through the Choice Program. The program’s mission is two-fold: it strives to invoke change and inspiration into lives of Maryland’s at-risk youth, and it also helps recent UMBC graduates become agents of change in our community. “Every child of any race needs that village, that community to support him or her,” says UMBC president Dr. Freeman Hrabowski. That village is… Continue Reading Inspiring Hope: The Choice Program

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