Safiyah Cheatam, M.F.A. ’21, intermedia and digital arts, always has… Continue Reading From nurture to apocalypse (and back again) —The Mundane Afrofuturism of multimedia artist Safiyah Cheatam
Achuth Padmanabhan’s research group, which includes graduate, undergraduate, and high school students, is revealing new potential treatment options by expanding understanding of the basic biology of ovarian cancer. Overall, “our goal is to eliminate ovarian cancer mortality,” he says. Continue Reading UMBC’s Achuth Padmanabhan to pursue promising ovarian cancer research with $1.5 million in grants
For Grant Clifton, teaching English effectively requires a combination of intensive technical training in English language instruction and a passion for building community. Clifton was a Peace Corps volunteer in Indonesia from 2017 to 2019, where he taught English to high school students. After returning to the U.S., Clifton continued his combined focus on learning and community impact through UMBC’s Shriver Peaceworker Fellows program. Continue Reading Helping English language learners gain confidence through community
U.S. News announced its 2023-24 Best Graduate School rankings, highlighting UMBC graduate programs in a broad range of fields, from public policy and several types of engineering to mathematics and other sciences. Continue Reading U.S. News Best Graduate School rankings for 2023–24 name UMBC programs among best in the nation
Meet Rachel Brubaker, M.A. ’00, historical studies, assistant director for… Continue Reading Meet a Retriever—Rachel Brubaker, M.A. ’00, faculty funding connector
This year, the Special Collections team at UMBC’s Albin O. Kuhn Library received a Preservation Assistance Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support conservation of their groundbreaking Lewis Hine collection. Continue Reading Historical Lens: Preserving the photography of social documentarian Lewis Hine
Meet Janerra Allen, a Ph.D. student in electrical engineering from Brooklyn, a student leader, and a Meyerhoff Graduate Fellow. Continue Reading Meet a Retriever – Janerra Allen, Ph.D. student in electrical engineering
Meet Emily Faber, a first generation college student who is pursuing a Ph.D. in atmospheric physics and who is also very involved as a student leader in the College of Natural and Mathematical Sciences. Continue Reading Meet a Retriever – Emily Faber, Ph.D. student in atmospheric physics
UMBC will expand its work boosting diversity in academia from Maryland to the national level through a new NSF INCLUDES Alliance: Re-Imagining STEM Equity Utilizing Postdoc Pathways (RISE UPP). The RISE UPP Alliance, anticipated to officially launch in fall 2022, is modeled after the PROMISE Academy, a high-impact initiative co-led by UMBC that supports faculty diversification in the biomedical sciences across University System of Maryland (USM) institutions. Continue Reading NSF awards $10M to UMBC to expand successful initiative developing underrepresented postdocs in STEM
“We’re really excited that the NIH has the confidence that we can do the work,” says Justine Johnson. G-RISE builds on a solid foundation from the successful Inititiative for Maximizing Student Development Meyerhoff Graduate Fellows Program, but, says Rachel Brewster, “We’ve built onto that a number of new elements.” Continue Reading NIH awards UMBC $5.6M to support underrepresented graduate students in STEM
“Service is a pathway to opportunities for everyone if we allow it to be accessible to all,” says Keenan Hickman, M.P.S. ’22, community leadership. “It is about leading through example and perseverance, and finding joy in completing innovative complex projects with a myriad of community members and organizations.” Continue Reading Community leader renews his Baltimore roots
“Be willing to be an independent thinker and be willing to be wrong,” says graduate student Amanda Belunis as ways to succeed in analytical chemistry. Continue Reading The Rocky Yet Rewarding Road of Graduate Research
