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Record number of new Retrievers join UMBC this year
UMBC’s 2024 fall semester is already poised to be one for the record books. With 2,250 new first-year undergraduate students, UMBC officially enrolled the university’s largest entering class in history. Campus also opened its arms and its doors to 800 transfer students and over 800 new graduate students this fall. Continue Reading Record number of…
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UMBC hosts “NASA Days” event series with Goddard Space Flight Center
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5 steps for success as a student in the natural sciences
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UMBC recognized for excellence in student voter registration and turnout during the 2022 midterm elections
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UMBC Announces New Institute of Politics in Advance of 2024 Election
UMBC Magazine
Spring 2024 Issue
Campus As a Lab
Magazine
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Pagers and walkie-talkies over cellphones—a security expert explains why Hezbollah went low-tech for communications
Richard Forno, principal lecturer in computer science and electrical engineering at UMBC explains the security situation around the pager attacks against Hezbollah. Continue Reading Pagers and walkie-talkies over cellphones—a security expert explains why Hezbollah went…
Quick Posts
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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
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Recipients of UMBC’s 2024 – 25 START, SURFF grant awards announced
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Quantum photonics expertise earns UMBC spot in DOE Frontiers in Energy Research Center
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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
Community
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Lee Blaney assumes presidency of the Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors
Professor Lee Blaney, in the Department of Chemical, Biochemical, and Environmental Engineering, formally assumed the role of president of the Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors (AEESP) at a board of directors meeting in early September. AEESP is a nonprofit organization founded in 1963 to foster inclusive connections between environmental engineering and science researchers…
Policy & Society
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UMBC recognized for excellence in student voter registration and turnout during the 2022 midterm elections
The ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge (ALL IN) recently recognized UMBC for its nonpartisan democratic engagement efforts that fostered high levels of student voter engagement in the 2022 midterm elections. UMBC received the 2022 America East Campus Votes Highest Registration Rate and a Silver Seal from ALL IN based on the university’s 2022 campus voting rate from its…
Science & Technology
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New study increases understanding of HIV drug’s negative effects on the brain
Efavirenz is an important drug for treating HIV infection, but it has negative effects that can significantly impact patients’ quality of life over time. It causes neuropsychiatric disorders and neurocognitive impairment in roughly 50 percent of patients. The drug is associated with abnormal lipid levels in blood plasma, but the molecular mechanisms responsible for negative…
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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Josh Michael ’10, Ph.D. ’22, elected Maryland State Board of Education president
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UMBC scientists show twisted carbon nanotubes might power “wind-up” sensors and other devices
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Christopher K. Tong, MLLI, returns from a research award in Mongolia to inform his work in Asian studies
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Incoming Athletics Director Tiffany Tucker brings student-centric leadership to the role