-
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…
-
UMBC community, families celebrate Homecoming 2024
-
UMBC Poll, new election website, affirm UMBC commitment to civic engagement
-
Rachel Brewster’s lab advances understanding of how organisms adapt to oxygen deprivation—with an eye toward new medical treatments
-
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
-
Faisal Quader, Ph.D. ’20: Expanding access to the cyber ecosystem
There’s already a student waiting outside the office of Faisal Quader, Ph.D. ’20, when the adjunct professor arrives at the Information Technology and Engineering building on a Thursday afternoon. The recent graduate, Smriti…
Quick Posts
-
For 15 consecutive years, UMBC‘s faculty and staff shine in the Great Colleges to Work For survey
-
Kaitlyn Sadtler ’11 named to TIME100 Next list for interdisciplinary biotech research
-
UMBC’s 2024 Cybersecurity Leadership Exploratory Grant Program recipients announced
-
GESTAR II center awarded $47 million extension on cooperative agreement with NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
-
UMBC launches new Center for Ethics and Values as a hub for students, researchers, and the broader community
-
Upal Ghosh appointed to D.C. mayor’s Leadership Council for a Cleaner Anacostia River
-
Hrabowski Fund for Innovation awardees announced
-
Creative, scientifically accurate eclipse animation selected for screening at Iron Mule Film Festival
Community
-
UMBC community, families celebrate Homecoming 2024
Families, friends, furry pals, and Retrievers of all ages returned to UMBC’s campus last week for the 2024 Homecoming celebration. Retrievers were in high spirits as they enjoyed more than 30 events, including UMBC Homecoming staples like the beloved carnival and bonfire, and some attendees kicked off their Halloween festivities with costumes, pumpkins, and fall…
Policy & Society
-
Study shows natural regrowth of tropical forests has immense potential to address environmental concerns
A new study in Nature finds that an area larger than Mexico has the potential for naturally regrow. That much regrowth could store 23.4 gigatons of carbon over 30 years and help significantly improve biodiversity and water quality. A new global map produced by the authors of potential regrowth areas is a boon to environmentalists…
Science & Technology
-
PANTHYR instrument installed in Chesapeake Bay to monitor water quality, validate satellite data
The new PANTHYR instrument installed in Chesapeake Bay will help monitor water quality and validate satellite data coming back from missions like NASA’s PACE. Continue Reading PANTHYR instrument installed in Chesapeake Bay to monitor water quality, validate satellite data
Arts & Culture
-
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
-
Ryan Atkinson, ice hockey MVP, to attend medical school on U.S. Air Force scholarship
-
Da’Kuawn Johnson, future M.D./Ph.D., combines commitments to research and peer mentorship
-
Jacqueline Wojcik to combine animation and history through Fulbright research in Norway
-
Jacob Mueller, Linehan Scholar, lights his way to a theatre career