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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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Striving for more efficient and equitable healthcare: Ian Stockwell wins major NIH grant
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UMBC and MSDE launch admissions pathway for high school students aspiring to become teachers
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UMBC community, families celebrate Homecoming 2024
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Study shows natural regrowth of tropical forests has immense potential to address environmental concerns
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…
Quick Posts
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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
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GESTAR II center awarded $47 million extension on cooperative agreement with NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
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UMBC launches new Center for Ethics and Values as a hub for students, researchers, and the broader community
Community
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UMBC’s 2024 International Education Week celebrates globally-minded Retrievers
IEW is a nationwide event that’s a joint initiative of the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Department of Education. This year’s first UMBC International Education Expo featured keynote speakers from the Maryland Higher Education Commission leadership—Secretary Sanjay K. Rai and vice chair Chike Aguh—who shared some of their personal international education experiences with…
Policy & Society
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Striving for more efficient and equitable healthcare: Ian Stockwell wins major NIH grant
Ian Stockwell ’03, information systems and financial economics, M.A. ’06, economic policy analysis, and Ph.D. ’14, public policy, has spent his 20-plus-year career analyzing healthcare operations. One major inefficiency he sees in the U.S. healthcare system is an overreliance on clinical medicine when other interventions, such as support accessing healthy food and safe housing, are…
Science & Technology
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FIRST faculty cohort brings new research areas to College of Natural and Mathematical Sciences
New faculty at UMBC and UMSOM hired through the NIH FIRST grant are studying some of the most pressing issues society faces today, like cancer and obesity. These researchers are also approaching study areas that may deserve more attention from innovative angles. Continue Reading FIRST faculty cohort brings new research areas to College of Natural…
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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FIRST faculty cohort brings new research areas to College of Natural and Mathematical Sciences
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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
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Yonathan Zohar honored for lifetime of contributions to fish endocrinology research and advances in aquaculture