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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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Dive into the food, fun, and friends of Homecoming weekend
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UMBC Poll, new election website, affirm UMBC commitment to civic engagement
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Rachel Brewster’s lab advances understanding of how organisms adapt to oxygen deprivation—with an eye toward new medical treatments
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Preparing students for a quantum tomorrow: Lei Zhang brings futuristic computing concepts into the classroom
UMBC Magazine
Spring 2024 Issue
Campus As a Lab
Magazine
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Alumna introduces horseshoe crabs to K-12 classrooms to raise these scientifically useful arthropods
Jessica Baniak ’23 is helping create unique learning opportunities for K12 students in Maryland through a program that brings horseshoe crabs to classrooms in collaboration with the Maryland Department of Natural Resources. Continue…
Quick Posts
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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
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Upal Ghosh appointed to D.C. mayor’s Leadership Council for a Cleaner Anacostia River
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Hrabowski Fund for Innovation awardees announced
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Creative, scientifically accurate eclipse animation selected for screening at Iron Mule Film Festival
Community
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GRIT-X talk series ushers in UMBC’s 2024 Homecoming activities
UMBC’s GRIT-X event is returning for its eighth year with a lineup of dynamic talks spanning a wide range of subjects, including insight into the university’s contributions to the next Moon landing mission, a look into Baltimore City’s new violence prevention plan, human-robot interaction, and much more. GRIT-X, a TED-Talks styled showcase of presentations on…
Policy & Society
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UMBC Poll, new election website, affirm UMBC commitment to civic engagement
UMBC has launched two exciting new Election 2024 resources that affirm the university’s commitment to civic engagement and benefit both our campus community and the greater Maryland region. UMBC Poll As a public university, UMBC takes pride in providing high quality research and analysis that serves the greater good. In August, UMBC launched the Institute…
Science & Technology
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UMBC researchers to study digital twinning technology, AI use in neurodegenerative diseases with NSF grant
A multidisciplinary team of UMBC researchers was recently awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to expand the use of digital twinning technology to diagnose, treat, and increase the understanding of neurodegenerative diseases. The use of digital twinning—a virtual model of a physical object—was developed by scientists and engineers at NASA as early as the…
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…
Previous Stories
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Retrievers are upping their research game in the 2024-25 Fulbright U.S. Student Program cohort
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Lee Blaney assumes presidency of the Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors
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Record number of new Retrievers join UMBC this year
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Meet a Retriever—Buhlebakhe Ncube, a 2024 Young African Leaders Initiative Fellow