Student-athletes, coaches, and Athletics Director Tiffany Tucker invite you to join the stands to cheer on our world-class women athletes. (Photos by Marlayna Demond '11/UMBC)
UMBC's fall 2024 magazine cover, featuring women's sports

Magazine

  • The fellowship of the ring

    The fellowship of the ring

    Like most dads, Chris Burk immediately told his 10-year-old daughter that the object she wastrying to fish out of Pig Pen Pond was probably trash. Emily was not to be deterred, and Burk…

Community

  • Sam Geleta ’25: A biochemist with dreams of taking his skills back home

    Sam Geleta ’25: A biochemist with dreams of taking his skills back home

    When Samuel Geleta arrived at UMBC from Ethiopia, he was confident he wanted to go to medical school. But that was before he started conducting HIV research with Michael Summers and fell in love with the scientific process. This fall, he’s headed to Yale University to pursue a Ph.D. in biomedical and biological sciences. He…


Policy & Society

  • ICARE Day celebrates 5 years of environmental research, community partnerships 

    ICARE Day celebrates 5 years of environmental research, community partnerships 

    ICARE began with a handful of faculty members from all three colleges at UMBC who wanted to collaborate more closely. Over time, it grew into an NSF-funded training program that today includes more than 100 people and 36 organizations.  Today, trainnes are “combining the skills, knowledge, and perspectives you gained here in ICARE with your already…


Science & Technology

  • ICARE Day celebrates 5 years of environmental research, community partnerships 

    ICARE Day celebrates 5 years of environmental research, community partnerships 

    ICARE began with a handful of faculty members from all three colleges at UMBC who wanted to collaborate more closely. Over time, it grew into an NSF-funded training program that today includes more than 100 people and 36 organizations.  Today, trainnes are “combining the skills, knowledge, and perspectives you gained here in ICARE with your already…


Arts & Culture

  • Kelley Bell, M.F.A ’06, brings a sense of play to the BMA with “Fantastic Village”

    Kelley Bell, M.F.A ’06, brings a sense of play to the BMA with “Fantastic Village”

    When associate professor of visual arts Kelley Bell thinks back to her childhood growing up in the Capitol Hill area of Washington, D.C., she recalls fond memories of playing in her neighborhood playground, locally dubbed as “Turtle Park.” “I remembered the concrete structures behind the turtle in the playground and it really inspired me to…