UMBC's Spring 2024 magazine cover, featuring a large green balloon being released into the sky by students for a lab research project.
UMBC's Spring 2024 magazine cover, featuring a large green balloon being released into the sky by students for a lab research project.

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  • Record number of new Retrievers join UMBC this year

    Record number of new Retrievers join UMBC this year

    UMBC’s 2024 fall semester is already poised to be one for the record books. With 2,250 new first-year undergraduate students, UMBC officially enrolled the university’s largest entering class in history. Campus also opened its arms and its doors to 800 transfer students and over 800 new graduate students this fall.  Continue Reading Record number of…


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  • UMBC chemical engineering student intern finds purpose giving patients hope

    UMBC chemical engineering student intern finds purpose giving patients hope

    A few weeks into her summer internship with pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca, rising senior Ortisemoyowa “Moyo” Ikomi, chemical engineering, attended an event celebrating a milestone in the company’s construction of a new drug manufacturing plant in Rockville, Maryland. During the event, the organizers played a video featuring a young girl whose seemingly terminal cancer was cured…


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  • Meet a Retriever—Buhlebakhe Ncube, a 2024 Young African Leaders Initiative Fellow

    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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