UMBC's Spring 2024 magazine cover, featuring a large green balloon being released into the sky by students for a lab research project.
UMBC's Spring 2024 magazine cover, featuring a large green balloon being released into the sky by students for a lab research project.

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  • GRIT-X talk series ushers in UMBC’s 2024 Homecoming activities

    GRIT-X talk series ushers in UMBC’s 2024 Homecoming activities

    UMBC’s GRIT-X event is returning for its eighth year with a lineup of dynamic talks spanning a wide range of subjects, including insight into the university’s contributions to the next Moon landing mission, a look into Baltimore City’s new violence prevention plan, human-robot interaction, and much more.  GRIT-X, a TED-Talks styled showcase of presentations on…


Policy & Society

  • GRIT-X talk series ushers in UMBC’s 2024 Homecoming activities

    GRIT-X talk series ushers in UMBC’s 2024 Homecoming activities

    UMBC’s GRIT-X event is returning for its eighth year with a lineup of dynamic talks spanning a wide range of subjects, including insight into the university’s contributions to the next Moon landing mission, a look into Baltimore City’s new violence prevention plan, human-robot interaction, and much more.  GRIT-X, a TED-Talks styled showcase of presentations on…


Science & Technology

  • GRIT-X talk series ushers in UMBC’s 2024 Homecoming activities

    GRIT-X talk series ushers in UMBC’s 2024 Homecoming activities

    UMBC’s GRIT-X event is returning for its eighth year with a lineup of dynamic talks spanning a wide range of subjects, including insight into the university’s contributions to the next Moon landing mission, a look into Baltimore City’s new violence prevention plan, human-robot interaction, and much more.  GRIT-X, a TED-Talks styled showcase of presentations on…


Arts & Culture

  • Meet a Retriever—Buhlebakhe Ncube, a 2024 Young African Leaders Initiative Fellow

    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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