Video: Cool Jobs – Glass Blower
From UMBC Magazine Winter 2012, The Coolest Jobs You Never Knew Existed at UMBC, featuring glassblower Tony Baney. Video by Gavin St. Ours.
Perspectives
Video: Cool Jobs – Animal Lab Tech
From UMBC Magazine Winter 2012, The Coolest Jobs You Never Knew Existed at UMBC, featuring former lab animal technician Rosie Mills. Video by Gavin St. Ours.
Up On the Roof – Winter 2012
UMBC President Freeman A. Hrabowski, III takes your questions. Q. Considering that Time magazine named The Protestor as its 2011 Person of the Year and knowing your own active involvement in the civil rights movement, what are your thoughts on the amount of violent opposition present-day protesters are facing across the nation? — Joseph Cooper IV ’08, English A. People have the right to protest. I have to remind people about that at times. America was built out of protest. If we had not protested, we would not have America. At the same time, a number of institutions have… Continue Reading Up On the Roof – Winter 2012
To You – Winter 2012
Back in 1985 and 1986, when I was the editor of UMBC’s literary magazine, Bartleby, one of my professors gave me something I have kept for more than 25 years: a copy of the UMBC literary magazine distributed to students in February 1969. The 1969 literary magazine is a part of the university’s folklore, largely because the inclusion of a series of soft-focus photographs of two nude dancers caused a sensation off-campus among the local community and state legislators. But the magazine’s appearance also kicked off an era of student and faculty protest at UMBC – and provided the first… Continue Reading To You – Winter 2012
Over Coffee – Winter 2012
There’s always a pot of coffee brewing at the UMBC Women’s Center, which has made its home on the ground floor of The Commons since 2004. So it seemed like the right place to grab a cup with Jess Myers, acting director of the Women’s Center, and Simmona Simmons ’74, American studies, services development librarian, who helped to found the center 20 years ago. The Women’s Center is marking that landmark anniversary with events throughout the academic year, and the two women took a break from those celebrations to talk about the center’s past, present and future. How would you… Continue Reading Over Coffee – Winter 2012
Up on the Roof – Fall 2011
UMBC President Freeman A. Hrabowski, III takes your questions. Q. UMBC ended its successful Exceptional by Example capital campaign by raising $15 million more than the $100 million target for the effort. What gave you the faith that this target of $100 million could be met? How gratified are you that the goal was surpassed in the end? — Richard Byrne ’86 A. I am very encouraged by the success of the campaign. We appreciate the support that people have given us. This success also lays the foundation for future campaigns. What we’ve been doing at UMBC is developing a… Continue Reading Up on the Roof – Fall 2011
To You – Fall 2011
Time flies when you’re having fun. And the three years that I have spent as editor of UMBC Magazine have flown by quickly. One reason is this time has flown is the terrific stories about the university and its alumni that I encounter almost every day in the course of editing the magazine.Sometimes they arrive in an e-mail. Occasionally, it’s a phone call. And some of them come in a stamped envelope. Many stories also come from encounters that I have with students, faculty and staff on campus. I’ve even been accosted on the MARC train as I commute to… Continue Reading To You – Fall 2011
The Healing Hands of the Humanities: Blair P. Grubb ’76
Blair. P. Grubb ’76, biological sciences, is a distinguished professor of medicine and pediatrics at the University of Toledo’s College of Medicine. He was also a recipient of UMBC’s Alumni of the Year Award in 1994. But Dr. Grubb – who is one of the world’s foremost authorities regarding syncope (or “fainting”) and disorders of the autonomic nervous system – is also a widely published essayist. UMBC Magazine asked him to share his thoughts on the confluence of medicine and literature. In the midst of the current debates on the future of American health care, a much less discussed crisis… Continue Reading The Healing Hands of the Humanities: Blair P. Grubb ’76