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Men’s Lacrosse Advances to Shot at America East Championship, NCAA Bid Junior attackman Ryan Smith scored 53 seconds into overtime as top-seeded UMBC (ranked 7th nationally in the April 28 USILA poll) survived a major scare from fourth-seeded Binghamton and edged the Bearcats, 6-5, to advance to the America East Conference championship game. The Retrievers will meet second-seeded Albany Saturday at 7:30 p.m. for their third straight title game face-off with an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament at stake. The UMBC men have won 10 straight. The Great Danes advanced with an earlier 12-9 victory over No. 3 Stony… Continue Reading Men’s Lacrosse Advances to Shot at America East Championship, NCAA Bid

Men’s Lacrosse on a Roll, Ready to Host AEC Championship The men’s lacrosse team (ranked 5th in the country in the April 21, 2008 USILA poll) won its school-record ninth straight game with a hard-fought 8-6 victory at Vermont on Saturday. The Retrievers are now focused on hosting this weekend’s America East Championships. UMBC will face fourth-seeded Binghamton on Thursday, May 1 at 7:30 p.m. The Retrievers finished regular season play with a record of 10-3 overall while going undefeated in the America East at 5-0. This is UMBC’s third consecutive 10-win season, also a school record. The nine consecutive… Continue Reading Men’s Lacrosse Clinches Share of America East Title

Student Receives Competitive Scholarship Junior Alex Pyles, the new editor-in-chief of The Retriever Weekly, is extending UMBC’s recent run of NCAA prominence. As Pyles continues to land prestigious internship opportunities in sports journalism, the NCAA recently offered him a 2008-2009 Freedom Forum/NCAA Sports Journalism Scholarship Award. This selective scholarship is a $3,000 award to a student who has an interest in sports journalism as a profession.  During the summer, Pyles will intern with the sports department of the Wilmington (Del.) News-Journal as one of eight students who received the Maryland, Delaware D.C. Press Association’s Reese Cleghorn Internship. He was selected… Continue Reading Student Receives Competitive Scholarship

Putting Student Research Center Stage The mysteries of autism. The art of animation. A chronicle of a blue-collar Baltimore neighborhood. The potential of rattlesnake venom as a drug delivery system. These are just a few of the topics to be found at two upcoming campus events that put UMBC students’ intellectual curiosity and artistic creativity front and center. The 12th annual Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement Day (URCAD) will be held Wednesday, April 23, followed by the 30th annual Graduate Research Conference (GRC) on Friday, April 25. Both events are extraordinary opportunities to discover original research and to enjoy free… Continue Reading Putting Student Research Center Stage

Putting Student Research Center Stage The mysteries of autism. The art of animation. A chronicle of a blue-collar Baltimore neighborhood. The potential of rattlesnake venom as a drug delivery system. These are just a few of the topics to be found at two upcoming campus events that put UMBC students’ intellectual curiosity and artistic creativity front and center. The 12th annual Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement Day (URCAD)  will be held Wednesday, April 23, followed by the 30th annual Graduate Research Conference (GRC) on Friday, April 25. Both events are extraordinary opportunities to discover original research and to enjoy free… Continue Reading Putting Student Research Center Stage

Alumni Create Award Winning Documentary UMBC alumni have created an award winning documentary about Adventures for the Cure’s (AFC) annual bike trip to raise money for diabetes research. “Adventures for the Cure,” which recently received the People’s Choice Award at the Beloit International Film Festival, will be screened at UMBC on Tuesday, April 29, at 7 p.m. in Lecture Hall 3 (Administration Building). Directed by Phillip Knowlton ’03, visual arts, the film chronicles the 6500-mile trek made by Adam Driscoll ’04, information systems, AFC president and cofounder; Alex Driscoll ’07, environmental science; and Jesse Stump ’06, mechanical engineering. The three… Continue Reading Alumni Create Award Winning Documentary

UMBC Scientist Joins NASA Mission Timothy Stubbs, a scientist at UMBC and NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center, has won funding for a project that sounds like equal parts Ray Bradbury and early David Bowie: studying how electrically charged dust moves across the moon and how it could be a hazard to humans and robots exploring the lunar surface. Stubbs was selected by NASA to join the science team for the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) mission, being built at Goddard and scheduled for launch later this year. The LRO is NASA’s first step in plans to return humans to the moon by… Continue Reading UMBC Scientist Joins NASA Mission

Chess “Final 4” Comes to UMBC As the UMBC community continues to honor the men’s basketball team’s historic first appearance in the NCAA Division I Tournament, the campus is positioned to host the 2008 President’s Cup, known as the “Final Four of College Chess,” on April 5-6. Admission is free and spectators are invited to attend this United States Chess Federation (USCF) National event, which determines the 2008 National Collegiate Chess Team Champion. All matches will be held in the UMBC Game Room (2nd floor of The Commons). To get the campus community excited about hosting the Final Four, UMBC… Continue Reading Chess “Final Four” Comes to UMBC

Hold Fast to Dreams Hailed as a national model for preparing students of all backgrounds for careers in science and engineering-related fields, the Meyerhoff Scholarship Program will mark its 20th anniversary April 4 and 5 with a scientific symposium and celebration expected to draw 600 participants from across the nation. Nearly 200 Meyerhoff alumni will join students, families, mentors and supporters in honoring the program’s success. The weekend includes poster sessions and scientific presentations demonstrating the talent and accomplishments of Meyerhoff alumni and students; panel discussions on “Building a Diverse Science and Engineering Workforce” and “Diversifying the Ph.D. and M.D./Ph.D.… Continue Reading Meyerhoff 20th Anniversary

Exploring the Ethics of Synthetic Life The J. Craig Venter Institute recently announced the creation of the world’s first wholly synthetic bacterial genome. For better or worse, this achievement by the celebrated and controversial scientist and his team marked the beginning of human-designed life on Earth. On April 2, the entire UMBC campus community and the public are invited to an interdisciplinary symposium, “The Ethical Implications of Synthetic Life.”  A panel featuring top experts in bioethics, genomics and policy will discuss the social, political and moral implications of this rapidly growing technology with vast potential to be either friendly or… Continue Reading Exploring the Ethics of Synthetic Life

Applying Life Lessons Troy Grant, a graduate student pursuing a Ph.D. in Language, Literacy and Culture, knows that years of research are ahead as he explores how to make education curricula more relevant and practical for at-risk students. However, Grant, 38, also knows how far he has traveled from the New Haven, Conn., housing project where he grew up. A self-described “rambunctious” boy, Grant was placed in a school for developmentally disabled children when he was 9. At 11, authorities arrested him for breaking into a Woolworth’s store. Grant persevered. He graduated from high school, joined the Air Force and… Continue Reading Troy Grant

Theatre Addresses Scarcity of Roles for Women The Department of Theatre presents the third annual IN 10 Festival, featuring new theatrical works for young actresses and all audiences, including the winning play of UMBC’s IN10 International Short Play Competition, by Francesca Sanders, a work by IN10 finalist Shirley King, and the world premiere of two commissioned short plays by renowned playwrights Tina Howe and Naomi Wallace. Inaugurated in 2006, the annual IN10 International Play Competition seeks to address the scarcity of strong roles for young women in contemporary American plays. By creating an international competition for 10-minute long plays that… Continue Reading Third Annual IN 10 Competition