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UMBC's campus at night, featuring the Albin O. Kuhn library and reflective pond, with street lamps lighting a path.

Why We Love it Here

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What gets you up and out the door each morning? And what makes a job more than a job—or even more than a career? For so many who make UMBC their professional home, the value goes way beyond a paycheck. Case in point: Employees for the 14th consecutive year rated UMBC as one of ModernThink’s Great Colleges to Work For in all 10 categories, including shared governance, mission and pride, job satisfaction and support, and diversity, equity, and inclusion. Additionally, the Baltimore Sun has once again named UMBC a 2023 Top Workplace winner based on a confidential employee survey conducted… Continue Reading Why We Love it Here

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UMBC students Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman and Olusayo Adeleye co-create 1st U.S. conference for Black women economists

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Reflecting on her inspiration, Sadie T.M. Alexander, Opoku-Agyeman says, “Similar to Dr. Alexander, people have projected their limitations onto me, often focusing on what I could not do because of my race/ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic background, age, or all of the above. She taught me that there is absolutely nothing that I cannot do. If want to reach a goal, all I have to do is run towards it.” Continue Reading UMBC students Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman and Olusayo Adeleye co-create 1st U.S. conference for Black women economists

Photos: Chocolate City Bar Talk

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Local alumni welcomed UMBC professor, author and alumnus, Dr. George Derek Musgrove ’97 to discuss his new book Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation’s Capital at a Bar Talk event on February 1 at Denizens Brewing Company in Silver Spring. During the talk, alums enjoyed one-on-one time with the author, whose book tells the tumultuous, four-century story of race and democracy in our nation’s capital. >> Read a Q&A with the author George Derek Musgrove ’97 >> Learn more about upcoming UMBC Alumni events  Photos by Marlayna Demond ’11 for UMBC Magazine

George Derek Musgrove launches book at the National Museum of African American History and Culture

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“Our hope is that people of goodwill will look at the lessons of D.C. history and use them to guide some of their activism,” says Musgrove.“We think it is a good guide for future action for making a better city, something really democratic of the alleged capital of the free world.” Continue Reading George Derek Musgrove launches book at the National Museum of African American History and Culture

Jones ’06, social work, on Hrabowski as Role Model

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In a Q&A with City Biz List, Joseph T. Jones ’06, social work, CEO of The Center for Urban Families, shares some of the challenges of his childhood years, and some of the secrets to his success in the non-profit sector, including a mentor relationship with UMBC president Freeman A. Hrabowski, III. Jones founded CFUF, a non-profit organization that connects men and women to career paths and strengthens their families, in 1999. As he tells City Biz List: I met Freeman at an event that I was speaking at in 2004 about education, father absence, and my personal story. After… Continue Reading Jones ’06, social work, on Hrabowski as Role Model

Joshua Budich ’00, Visual Arts, Creates Work for the 2013 Oscars

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Joshua Budich ’00 is one of a small group of artists selected to create original screen prints inspired by the nine best picture nominees in this year’s Academy Awards. Budich, who created artwork based on the film Silver Linings Playbook, earned his BFA from UMBC in 2000, and currently works as an independent illustrator for a number of galleries and media-outlets around the globe. This work was commissioned by The Academy in conjunction with Gallery 1988. See all of the artwork at the Oscars’ official website. Read a Q&A with Budich at Retreiver Net.

A Volume Business – Eduard Berlin ’70, Political Science

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The books may sit quietly on their shelves, but the rest of The Ivy Bookshop buzzes with the activity of book selling. In the back of the Baltimore shop on this particular early evening, employees race to load Bill Clinton biographies onto a cart in time to sell at a symposium downtown later that night. And near the reading nook, UMBC professor Robert Provine prepares for a reading and Q&A in the bookshop about his new book on the psychology of hiccups. At the center of the commotion in his favorite leather reading chair sits Eduard Berlin ’70, political science… Continue Reading A Volume Business – Eduard Berlin ’70, Political Science

Filmmaker Fischer '98 Profiled in Chicago Newspaper

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Steven Fischer ’98, visual and performing arts, a filmmaker profiled with several other director alumni in the September 2011 issue of UMBC Magazine, has been interviewed by the Lincolnshire Review. Read the Q&A in the Lincolnshire Review here. The two-time Emmy-nominated writer/producer and the creator of Steve & Bluey recently released a new documentary entitled “Old School New School” in which he interviews artists he respects about the nature of creativity and how to sustain a career in the arts. In photo:  Fred Weil, videographer, Steve Fischer, director, Brian Cox, actor and Chris Cassey, director of photography for “Old School… Continue Reading Filmmaker Fischer '98 Profiled in Chicago Newspaper

Measure of a Mission: The Exceptional by Example Campaign

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UMBC’s Exceptional by Example Campaign transformed the campus. But you can’t calculate its true impact without assessing how it helped members of the UMBC community change and grow. By Jenny O’Grady and Meredith Purvis The tale of a successful capital campaign is often told by the numbers. And by that yardstick, UMBC’s Exceptional by Example Campaign was a success. Over the course of nine years, UMBC’s Exceptional by Example Campaign raised money to invest in a community without boundaries, made up of teachers, students and researchers who come from every imaginable background and share a commitment to academic excellence and… Continue Reading Measure of a Mission: The Exceptional by Example Campaign

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