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Chemist Jacqueline and a student in the lab synthesizing anti-cancer agents.

Alumni

Jacqueline Smith ’06, cancer drug researcher and role model for Black chemists

Oct 8, 2025 • By Bobby Lubaszewski '10, M.P.S. '23

Jacqueline Smith ’06 is an award winning researcher and role model for black chemists. She is a 2025 Alumni Award recipient.

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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

One professor and three students stand around a building sign that reads "Meyerhoff Chemistry Building" outside on a fall day, backed by a walkway and brick buildings

Science & Tech

Three decades of student mentoring earns UMBC chemist Paul Smith the Braude Award

Jul 15, 2024

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Campus Life

Putting UMBC Research on the Map

May 30, 2024

Noah Cruz '24, a psychology and biological sciences student, poses on the stairs.

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Meet a Retriever—Noah Cruz ’24, first-generation scholar and mentor

Oct 5, 2023

smiling woman standing on a beach, her curly hair blowing in the wind

Discovery

Why does your hair curl in the summer? A chemist explains the science behind hair structure

Aug 11, 2023

A mentor stands outside talking with a student about asking for help and community support with a building and trees in the background

Class of 2023

Graduating students share how unexpected paths and community support got them to where they needed to be

May 16, 2023

two students observe a well plate in a brightly lit laboratory

Science & Tech

UMBC’s Chengpeng Chen receives $1.7M NIH grant to develop human liver model

Aug 26, 2022

A professor teaches a class of college students

Impact

Better Living Through Chemistry

Jul 6, 2022

portrait of Katherine Seley-Radtke

Science & Tech

Creating new antiviral drugs: Katherine Seley-Radtke’s innovative “fleximer” research to receive $3.5M from NIH

Jun 10, 2022

Community

UMBC faculty and staff award recipients place community at the core of their success

Apr 7, 2022

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Viral inventors: UMBC study finds virus DNA orchestrates a critical cellular pathway in bacteria

Dec 9, 2021

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