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Incoming Athletics Director Tiffany Tucker brings student-centric leadership to the role
She may be new to Retriever Nation, but it seems like Tiffany D. Tucker won’t have any problem as UMBC’s leader of the pack. Addressing a crowd of student-athletes, administrators, coaches, and staff, at a press conference on July 22, Tucker, UMBC’s newly-appointed director of athletics, physical education, and recreation, made a promise to uphold…
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UMBC chemical engineering student intern finds purpose giving patients hope
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Luna Siesko ’25 builds career skills at the Baltimore County Arts Guild
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Liz Willman ’25 uses internships to make childhood vet dreams a reality
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Katherine Carver ’26 is helping astronomers analyze James Webb Space Telescope data
UMBC Magazine
Spring 2024 Issue
Campus As a Lab
Magazine
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Healing from home—with Taylor Gaines ’13, Doc on the Go
On a warm April morning, Taylor Gaines ’13, has a short visit with one of his regular patients, who is typically anxious and standoffish. This is the reason why Gaines goes directly to…
Quick Posts
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With eye to research, UMBC expands partnership with Baltimore-based energy company Constellation
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Susan McDonough, history, receives prestigious membership to the Institute for Advanced Studies to continue research on sex workers in medieval Mediterranean
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UMBC-designed STEM study abroad program in Spain launches in 2025
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Watch: A recap of UMBC-led NASA Dissipation sounding rocket launch
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Molly Mollica wins American Heart Association Career Development Award
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UMBC’s College of Engineering and Information Technology aligns with UBalt’s Merrick School of Business to deliver enhanced degrees
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CNMS Awards and Recognition Day honors students, faculty, and staff
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Lee Blaney awarded funding to develop new ways to remove “forever chemicals” from water
Community
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UMBC students expand skill sets, explore career opportunities with summer 2024 internships
This summer, UMBC students have hit the ground running in exploration of possible post-graduation opportunities with internship placements across a wide range of industries and career fields that include companies such as NASA, House of Ruth, Morgan Stanley, Art with a Heart, Doordash, and more. With the help of UMBC’s Career Center, hundreds of students…
Policy & Society
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Peter Wilschke ’24, political science and economics, celebrates national research accomplishments
“Most of what I accomplished as an undergrad was something I had to decide I wanted to do without having anyone to tell me I should do it,” explains Peter Wilschke ’24, economics and political science. He hit the ground running after graduation in May, beginning a two-year research assistant position at the Federal Reserve…
Science & Technology
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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…
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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Breakthrough UMBC vision research finds protein holds promise to treat biological clock disorders
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UMBC’s spring 2017 commencement honors each student’s story of achievement
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Michelle Starz-Gaiano’s new cell migration research may lead to more effective cancer treatments
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UMBC Baseball heads to NCAA tournament after winning first America East championship