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Mentorship and momentum: How UMBC support propelled six students into HHMI’s first Cech Fellows cohort
Six rising juniors from UMBC joined the inaugural cohort of HHMI’s Cech Fellows program this summer. Mentorship, scholars programs, and hands-on research at UMBC propelled these students into prestigious labs nationwide, where they advance projects in neuroscience, virology, and drug discovery while building national networks.
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UMBC’s student Fulbright recipients pursue community-driven research on a global stage
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Four Retrievers selected for this summer’s Key Bridge rebuilding internship
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UMBC researcher awarded high-risk, high-reward NIAID grant to improve HIV prevention drugs
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A $1M alumni gift expands graduate student success and inclusive excellence in tech
UMBC Magazine
Fall 2025 Issue
ARTS+YOU
Magazine
Quick Posts
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UMBC to honor faculty and staff at presidential awards ceremony
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Anupam Joshi named 2025 AAAS Fellow
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Senior Caly Ferguson recognized with National Society of Black Engineers’ ‘25 Under 25’ award
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Celebrating the misunderstood: Mercedes Burns featured in new book on North America’s overlooked critters
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UMBC physicist wins Amazon award to build AI-orchestrated scientific assistant
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UMBC’s Steven Caruso honored for leading authentic undergrad research in the classroom
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UMBC hosts 2025 IEEE Baltimore Technical Colloquium
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Chemical engineering professor Tyler Josephson chosen as Simons Foundation Pivot Fellow
Community
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More than skills: Four CNMS interns on mentorship, belonging, and the gift of opportunity
Magdalen Ruth is one of four CNMS students whose recent internships at Maryland-based companies and agencies show how local opportunities are helping Retrievers build skills, find mentors, and advance discoveries that matter here and beyond. “I feel like I’m doing really important work,” Ruth, a Meyerhoff and U-RISE Scholar who interned at the NIH, says.…
Policy & Society
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Details and detective skills matter at Reese Finnigan’s internship at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s archives in Bowie
Reese Finnigan, studying the history of the Soviet Union and learning Russian, developed these archival skills working on The Baltimore Sun collection during her first year in the Master of Arts in Public History program. This year, when looking for summer internship opportunities, Finnigan was excited to find that the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum…
Science & Technology
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More than skills: Four CNMS interns on mentorship, belonging, and the gift of opportunity
Magdalen Ruth is one of four CNMS students whose recent internships at Maryland-based companies and agencies show how local opportunities are helping Retrievers build skills, find mentors, and advance discoveries that matter here and beyond. “I feel like I’m doing really important work,” Ruth, a Meyerhoff and U-RISE Scholar who interned at the NIH, says.…
Arts & Culture
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Meet a Retriever–Keisha Hale, M.A. ’20, Hurricane Katrina survivor, educator, researcher, and author
Meet Keisha Hale, M.A. ’20, applied sociology. Keisha is an educator, researcher, and author. In 2025, she published We Weather the Storm: A Poetry Memoir of Survival and Healing, inspired […]
Previous Stories
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More than skills: Four CNMS interns on mentorship, belonging, and the gift of opportunity
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Hands-on science, lasting confidence: Student researchers impress at Summer Undergraduate Research Fest
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Could a smart phone take the place of expensive medical equipment? Dong Li investigates how to make affordable health monitoring accessible
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From bagging sugar to modeling floods, Retriever interns deploy their technical chops to make modern life smoother in Maryland and beyond