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Strange Dance Partners
UMBC researchers are discovering building blocks of hand motions, aiming to improve physical therapy for humans and find better ways to program robots. They’re turning to a novel source material for these gestures: classical Indian dance.
UMBC Magazine
Fall 2025 Issue
ARTS+YOU
Magazine
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No animal alive today is ‘primitive’— why are so many still labeled that way?
UMBC biological sciences professor Kevin Omland explains how modern evolutionary biology and genomics show there is no hierarchy in evolution. All species alive today, from chimpanzees to bacteria, are cousins that each have…
Quick Posts
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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
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UMBC sophomore wins first place at NSBE fall regional conference technical research exhibition
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Hrabowski Fund for Innovation awardees continue to drive new approaches to teaching and learning
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Living the mission—UMBC recognized for 16 years as a ‘Great College to Work For’
Community
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On the track and in the pool, UMBC nabs America East titles
This past weekend, the Retrievers cracked open the record books to ink two more milestones in the history of UMBC Athletics. For the first time in university history, the women’s track and field team captured the America East Indoor Championship title. In addition, the men’s swimming and diving team reclaimed their America East title for…
Policy & Society
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UMBC student entrepreneurs win funding from the 2026 Pava LePere Innovation Awards
Two student-led UMBC start-ups have been selected to receive 2026 Pava LePere Innovation Awards, granting them $50,000 each from the state of Maryland to support their business, as well as access to mentorship, training, and strategic support from the Maryland Student Venture Core Advisory Board and representatives from a network of entrepreneur support organizations across…
Science & Technology
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Connecting NASA to the classroom: UMBC physicist Zhibo Zhang to lead Goddard Planetary Heliophysics Institute
UMBC’s Zhibo Zhang will take the helm of the Goddard Planetary Heliophysics Institute, UMBC’s arm of a multi-institution consortium dedicated to research on the Sun, its processes, and space weather.
Arts & Culture
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Laughing in the dark—UMBC’s Erin Hogan writes about Spain’s cinema after Franco
Asking Erin Hogan, professor of Spanish, to choose her favorite film is like asking her whether she prefers to study Iberian or Latin American films—both of which she researches and fell in love with as an undergrad. The real answer is that Hogan’s favorite film is whatever film she is studying at the time. For…
