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Baltimore City hometown recruits shine bright

Jun 23, 2026 • By Randianne Leyshon '09

The Best of Baltimore Grant, a UMBC initiative started in fall 2025, is changing how students from Baltimore City imagine college: not as a distant possibility overshadowed by debt, but as a tangible, financially supported path forward, and right in their backyard.

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Male athlete running on an indoor track, holding a baton and wearing a "UMBC" singlet.

Impact

Meet a Retriever—Anjayooluwa Adegboyo ’25, Arthur Ashe Jr. Male Sports Scholar of the Year

Sep 26, 2025

Anita Das ’83, M.S. ’87, sitting on a bench, smiling at the camera. (Courtesy Das)

Alumni

Meet a Retriever—Anita Das ’83, M.S. ’87, mostly-retired medical researcher and planned giving donor

Sep 10, 2025

In the often-used campus photo from the America East championship basketball game in 2008 that took us to the NCAA tournament for the first time, Malihom can be seen in the row in front of the young woman carrying the "Retriever Believer" sign.

Alumni

Meet a Retriever—Dann Malihom ’10, M.A. ’16, UMBC staff member, sociology faculty, and Alumni Association board member

Aug 1, 2025

Debora Fajer-Smith ’81 on the left. the author's first novel, "Pieces of Gold," on the right.

Alumni

Meet a Retriever—Debora Fajer-Smith ’81, lawyer, author, and UMBC donor

Jul 31, 2025

John Ashworth, III with Kim Robinson looking out the AOK Library window.

Impact

A lifetime of responding to disasters earns a lifetime professorship for John Ashworth, III

Jun 16, 2025

Dave Anguish and another adult stand side by side holding a black and white puppy between them

Class of 2018

Retrievers Behind the Scenes—Dave Anguish ’12, political science, M.P.P ’19, advocate for international students and immigrant communities

May 30, 2025

two Pre-law student volunteers sit at a table with a blue and white table cloth with the letters Maryland Legal Aid in white

Class of 2025

Public law for public good

May 14, 2025

Gary Brooks ’79 in front of the AOK Library wearing his Phi Beta Sigma jacket. "Phi Beta Sigma made library study an important regular component of our pledge routine," says Brooks.

Alumni

Finding a lifetime of purpose in giving back

May 6, 2025

Two people, one an ICARE trainee, crouch on a pier near the water. One person pours water from one container into a bottle that the other person holds.

Impact

Students partner with Baltimore community members to measure ‘forever chemicals’ in local waters

Apr 2, 2025

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Campus Life

Meet a Retriever—Cierra K. Reeves found her perfect niche in psychology and aging services

Feb 27, 2025

Emmanuella Osei, a college student wearing a black blouse stands near a rail overlooking a pond

Community

Meet a Retriever—Emmanuella Osei, public health and sociology junior and fearless leader

Feb 3, 2025

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Impact

Meet a Retriever—Michael Brazda ’06, M.A. ’08, and Ph.D. ’24, an adjunct professor and advocate for virtual lifelong learning

Feb 3, 2025

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