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Thyme to grow—UMBC’s Little Seed Library starts spreading its roots

Jun 22, 2026 • By Randianne Leyshon '09

UMBC's new Little Seed Library, co-sponsored by Retriever Essentials and the Office of Sustainability, offers free seeds to the campus community. Located near UMBC Police, this initiative promotes sustainable gardening, food education, and community engagement through a take-and-donate seed exchange system.

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Baltimore City hometown recruits shine bright

Jun 23, 2026

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The Class of 2026 found communities to help tackle big challenges

Jun 23, 2026

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Office Hours—President Sheares Ashby talks with a graduating senior about rootedness and change

Jun 17, 2026

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The Charm Pack solves the case

Jun 16, 2026

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How to make a (really) strong magnet

Jun 15, 2026

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Business—not as usual

Jun 12, 2026

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Plot twist— Michelle Corpora ’03 took a nonlinear path to becoming NYT bestselling author

Jun 1, 2026

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Meet a Retriever—Hailey Turney, M.A. ’21, a COEIT academic advisor who’s found a trusted team to rely on

May 29, 2026

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UMBC Class of 2026: Ready to contribute their voices

May 26, 2026

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Bartleby is more than golden—50+ years with UMBC’s creative arts journal

May 21, 2026

A Chandra X-ray Observatory image around the Sagittarius A* supermassive black hole, located in the center of the Milky Way galaxy, is shown. The image is dominated by vibrant red and blue hues, with a large amount of celestial objects visible. At the center of the image, there is a bright, lumpy object showing the intense X-ray radiation emanating from the Sgr A* black hole. In the surrounding area, there are a couple smaller lumps layered throughout the image, feathering out to a large almost butterfly shape filling much of the screen. The image appears textured, like dozens of blue and orange glow worms are paused in their wriggling. The image offers an unprecedented view of lobes of hot gas extending for a dozen light years on either side of the black hole. These lobes provide evidence for powerful eruptions occurring several times over the last ten thousand years. The image also contains several mysterious X-ray filaments, some of which may be huge magnetic structures interacting with streams of energetic electrons produced by rapidly spinning neutron stars. Such features are known as pulsar wind nebulas.

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Revealing galactic history with cosmic rays

May 21, 2026

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