Thousands of Retriever graduates, family, and friends streamed into the new UMBC Event Center last week to celebrate graduate and undergraduate spring commencement. Continue Reading UMBC’s spring 2018 commencement honors student achievements, community values
Though he never set foot on UMBC’s field as a player, the lacrosse career of Lloyd Carter ’97, M.S. ’09, emergency health services, began years before his time as a Retriever, and continues today through his role as head coach of Hampton University’s Division I squad. Carter, who for years balanced coaching jobs with a lengthy leadership career in firefighting for Baltimore City, founded the program at Hampton just three years ago, making it the only team of its kind among the historically black college and university (HBCU) system. It’s a fitting position for a man who spent much of… Continue Reading Sticking With It: Lacrosse Coach Lloyd Carter ’97, M.S. ’09
The large number of honorees “shows the quality of student we have here at UMBC and what they’re doing,” says Keith Harmon, director of the Meyerhoff Scholars Program. “It also shows the quality of their research experiences at UMBC, and the commitment of the faculty to mentoring these students as undergraduates.” Continue Reading NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program honors 18 UMBC students and alumni
February 28 marks UMBC’s first Giving Day — a marathon day of philanthropy dedicated to supporting the campus community now and in the future. Continue Reading Retriever Nation gears up for UMBC’s first Giving Day #blackandgoldrush
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
UMBC’s annual night in Annapolis celebrated alumni who work every day for the public good of Marylanders. Nearly 70 percent of UMBC’s more than 70,000 alumni live in Maryland and contribute to the State’s economy and civic life in a variety of ways. Along with President Freeman Hrabowski, House of Delegates Speaker Pro Tem Adrienne A. Jones ’76, psychology, hosted the event along with Senator James Mathias ’74, political science; Delegate Haven Shoemaker ’87, political science; Delegate Mark Chang ’99, psychology; Delegate Charles Sydnor, III ’00, policy sciences; Matthew A. Clark ’00, history, Chief of Staff, Office of the Governor; and Tiffany Robinson ’97, political science, Deputy Chief of Staff, Office of the Governor. “My co-hosts this… Continue Reading Photos: Alumni Pride in Serving Our State
UMBC’s San Francisco Bay Area alumni got together last week for drinks and a warm welcome from their East Coast Retriever friends. Dr. Anupam Joshi, Director, UMBC Center for Cybersecurity Professor and Chair, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, and UMBC’s Office of Alumni Relations staff greeted more than 50 alumni January 22 at Steins Beer Garden in Mountain View, CA. We hope you enjoy these photos from the event. Learn more about upcoming alumni events here!
“Having UMBC alumni in the Senate, House of Delegates, the Governor’s Office, state agencies, advocacy groups and nonprofits is a great asset,” says House of Delegates Speaker Pro Tem Adrienne A. Jones ’76, psychology. “As public service professionals, we share the same camaraderie and ‘True Grit’ as we did as UMBC students.” Continue Reading UMBC celebrates alumni in public service at special Annapolis event
UMBC celebrated so many milestones in the past year. In thousands of ways, big and small, the UMBC community made their mark on 2017. Here are 12 top highlights. Continue Reading UMBC’s Top 12 Highlights of 2017
The new finding “is attacking the bugaboo of this whole class of possible quantum computers,” says Jason Kestner. And yet, like so much in science, the finding “is something we stumbled across almost by accident,” says Michael Wolfe ’17. Continue Reading UMBC physicists’ finding has potential to springboard quantum computing to major advances
President Freeman Hrabowski encouraged students to “be true to yourselves, and be true in your relationships. Always work to elevate others even when times are challenging” during the 2017 Winter Commencement Ceremonies. Continue Reading UMBC welcomes over 1,200 new alumni during 2017 Winter Commencement Ceremonies
Jennifer Sleeman, Ph.D. ’17, computer science, visiting assistant professor of computer science and electrical engineering, received an award from Microsoft’s “AI for Earth” program to continue to develop algorithms to model and predict scientific disciplines such as climate change. Continue Reading UMBC alumna and visiting faculty member receives grant from Microsoft’s “AI for Earth” program
