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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…
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Striving for more efficient and equitable healthcare: Ian Stockwell wins major NIH grant
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UMBC and MSDE launch admissions pathway for high school students aspiring to become teachers
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UMBC community, families celebrate Homecoming 2024
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Study shows natural regrowth of tropical forests has immense potential to address environmental concerns
UMBC Magazine
Spring 2024 Issue
Campus As a Lab
Magazine
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When public service gets personal
When Patricia Mengue Bindjeme, a junior majoring in mechanical engineering, went to classes, her professors would sometimes point out how engineers’ decisions can have life-or-death consequences. But the message really hit home this…
Quick Posts
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Mechanical engineering professor Weidong Zhu honored for pioneering work analyzing sound and vibration
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Biologist Tom Cronin co-authors ‘Color in Nature,’ a beautiful and accessible tour of color’s role in our world
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For 15 consecutive years, UMBC‘s faculty and staff shine in the Great Colleges to Work For survey
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Kaitlyn Sadtler ’11 named to TIME100 Next list for interdisciplinary biotech research
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UMBC’s 2024 Cybersecurity Leadership Exploratory Grant Program recipients announced
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GESTAR II center awarded $47 million extension on cooperative agreement with NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
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UMBC launches new Center for Ethics and Values as a hub for students, researchers, and the broader community
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Upal Ghosh appointed to D.C. mayor’s Leadership Council for a Cleaner Anacostia River
Community
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UMBC and MSDE launch admissions pathway for high school students aspiring to become teachers
This fall, UMBC joined an existing network of higher education institutions across Maryland that partner with the Maryland State Department of Education (MSDE) and the Teacher Academy of Maryland (TAM) to offer Maryland high school students interested in teaching a direct admissions pathway to UMBC’s undergraduate teacher education programs. Continue Reading UMBC and MSDE launch admissions…
Policy & Society
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Striving for more efficient and equitable healthcare: Ian Stockwell wins major NIH grant
Ian Stockwell ’03, information systems and financial economics, M.A. ’06, economic policy analysis, and Ph.D. ’14, public policy, has spent his 20-plus-year career analyzing healthcare operations. One major inefficiency he sees in the U.S. healthcare system is an overreliance on clinical medicine when other interventions, such as support accessing healthy food and safe housing, are…
Science & Technology
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Yonathan Zohar honored for lifetime of contributions to fish endocrinology research and advances in aquaculture
Yonathan Zohar, professor of marine biotechnology, has received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Society for Fish Endocrinology. He and colleagues have been at the forefront of developing land-based aquaculture systems. Continue Reading Yonathan Zohar honored for lifetime of contributions to fish endocrinology research and advances in aquaculture
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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UMBC students take second place in national ChemE Jeopardy competition for second year in a row
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HackUMBC 2021 brings together 1,400 creative students from 26 countries to solve challenges in their communities
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New study led by UMBC’s Qianqian Song furthers understanding of atmospheric dust’s role in climate
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Scientists may be underestimating Arctic ecosystem changes, new UMBC research shows