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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  • Meet a Retriever—Ridwan Islam Sifat, international doctoral student in public policy

    Meet a Retriever—Ridwan Islam Sifat, international doctoral student in public policy

    Meet Ridwan Islam Sifat, an M.P.P. graduate student and doctoral student at UMBC’s School of Public Policy researching healthcare disparities among intersex individuals in the United States. Sifat joined UMBC as an international student after earning both a B.S. and M.S. in development studies from The Bangladesh University of Professionals where he studied the social…


Science & Technology

  • New study increases understanding of HIV drug’s negative effects on the brain

    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

  • 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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