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A $1M alumni gift expands graduate student success and inclusive excellence in tech
In 2022, when Pam Offutt ’82, computer science, visited campus 40 years after graduating, she was taken aback by two things: how much the university had changed and how much […]
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Baja team speeds into racing season with strong early showings
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Music, murals, and manifestos: Bringing history to life in the classroom
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A global perspective on aging: Alfred Boakye’s gerontology journey from Ghana to Japan and the U.S.
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Thyme to grow—UMBC’s Little Seed Library starts spreading its roots
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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Career readiness starts here: UMBC expands work-integrated learning opportunities
Earlier this summer, a month before the start of fall classes, newly-minted Retrievers were on campus and ready to start working. Part of UMBC’s initiative to scale up work-integrated learning […]
Policy & Society
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Nothing but beauty: Noor Zaidi leads an international interfaith team digitizing the history of one of the few shrines to a woman in Islam
In her new book, Traces of Zainab: Ritual, Memory, and Place in Shi’a Islam, Noor Zaidi, assistant professor of history, studies the woman who became a symbol of resistance for Shi‘i Muslims worldwide. Now Zaidi is leading an international interfaith team to preserve, restore, and digitize the shrine’s archives. With the support of Father Columba…
Science & Technology
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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.
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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UMBC launches Center for Democracy and Civic Life at a critical national moment
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New Fulbright Accelerator connects CAHSS faculty with international opportunities
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Twenty years of the Baltimore Ecosystem Study: An icon of urban ecology research
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UMBC community leaders launch Retriever Courage, a sexual assault prevention and response initiative