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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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Meet a Retriever—Matthew Levy ’00, M.S. ’08, emergency response professional
Meet Matthew J. Levy ’00, M.S. ’08 emergency and disaster health services (EDHS), who has dedicated his career to Maryland communities. His expertise has made him indispensable in the most challenging national, state,…
Quick Posts
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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
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Hrabowski Fund for Innovation awardees announced
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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Tasneem Khambaty mentors a new generation of doctoral students on novel research for the prevention of type 2 diabetes
Tasneem Khambaty, the principal investigator in a continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) study funded by a National Institute of Aging grant, researches the psychosocial and neurocognitive factors that influence the diabetes process across the lifespan of middle-aged and older adults. “This research introduces a cost-effective, user-friendly CGM technology as a novel, sensitive, digital biomarker for the…
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…
