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Retrievers are upping their research game in the 2024-25 Fulbright U.S. Student Program cohort
UMBC’s 2024 – 2025 Fulbright U.S. Student Program class are sharing their knowledge and building community around the world by earning a master’s degree, conducting research, or teaching English. This year is especially significant, as six of seven awards are research-focused, marking the highest number of research awards in UMBC’s Fulbright history. Continue Reading Retrievers…
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Political science students conduct 2024 UMBC Battleground Exit Poll, gauging attitudes of 1,119 Baltimore County voters
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5 ways UMBC partnered with NASA in 2024
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FIRST faculty cohort brings new research areas to College of Natural and Mathematical Sciences
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Intercultural conversations: Exploring politics in a global context, even at home
UMBC Magazine
Fall 2024 Issue
Everyone Is Watching Women’s Sports
Magazine
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Retriever Behind the Scenes—Chris Serafin, electric trades supervisor
Meet Chris Serafin, electric trades supervisor in UMBC’s Facilities Management (FM). Serafin has been at UMBC for 9 years and was recently awarded a USM Board of Regents’ Staff Award for his exceptional…
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UMBC increases rank in latest HERD survey, among top 10 universities in the nation in NASA funding
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Mohamed Younis honored for contributions to modern communication technologies
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UMBC students excel at annual meeting of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers
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Mechanical engineering professor Weidong Zhu honored for pioneering work analyzing sound and vibration
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Biologist Tom Cronin co-authors ‘Color in Nature,’ a beautiful and accessible tour of color’s role in our world
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For 15 consecutive years, UMBC‘s faculty and staff shine in the Great Colleges to Work For survey
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Kaitlyn Sadtler ’11 named to TIME100 Next list for interdisciplinary biotech research
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UMBC’s 2024 Cybersecurity Leadership Exploratory Grant Program recipients announced
Community
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UMBC’s Class of 2023 surpasses national career outcomes
Recent data from the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) highlights the exceptional career readiness of UMBC graduates. “UMBC continues to surpass national career outcome rates across all degree levels,” said Christine Routzahn, director of the Career Center. Bachelor’s degree outcomes Nationwide, nearly 85 percent of Class of 2023 bachelor’s degree graduates were employed…
Policy & Society
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Political science students conduct 2024 UMBC Battleground Exit Poll, gauging attitudes of 1,119 Baltimore County voters
To understand voting behavior, experts turn to exit polling, a careful and methodical process of surveying voters as they leave polling places. For the 2024 election, many Baltimore County voters were greeted outside their polling place by UMBC students conducting the UMBC Battleground Exit Poll, a hands-on educational experience created by Ian Anson, an associate…
Science & Technology
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Foad Hamidi launches new projects to expand technology-rich learning opportunities for youth in Baltimore
Foad Hamidi, an assistant professor in the Department of Information Systems, has won funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to support two new projects offering technology-rich informal learning opportunities to diverse populations in Baltimore and beyond. Continue Reading Foad Hamidi launches new projects to expand technology-rich learning opportunities for youth in Baltimore
Arts & Culture
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Meet a Retriever—Buhlebakhe Ncube, a 2024 Young African Leaders Initiative Fellow
Meet Buhlebakhe Ncube from Zimbabwe. She spent six weeks at UMBC as part of the 2024 Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders, the flagship program of the U.S. Government’s Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) hosted by UMBC’s Center for Global Engagement (CGE). The new cohort included 25 innovators from countries across Sub-Saharan Africa representing…
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Foad Hamidi launches new projects to expand technology-rich learning opportunities for youth in Baltimore
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UMBC’s Class of 2023 surpasses national career outcomes
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UMBC’s 2024 International Education Week celebrates globally-minded Retrievers
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New study finds specific sensory neurons associated with parental care and reproductive behaviors in male cichlids