students cheering at a nighttime soccer game

How to be a Retriever!

Apr 28, 2022 Jul 14, 2022 / 7 min read

UMBC has unique long-standing traditions, made especially dear to students and alumni because so many of them were conceived and implemented by students. Continue Reading How to be a Retriever!

Life doesn’t pause when classes end and the sun goes down. Instead, students grab a cup of coffee and find a million ways of following their interests bringing campus to life. Continue Reading UMBC After Dark

ITE Happy Hour at Jailbreak Brewing Company

Jun 22, 2018 Feb 9, 2022 / 1 min read

Graduates of the UMBC College of Engineering and Information Technology… Continue Reading ITE Happy Hour at Jailbreak Brewing Company

Night Earth observation of Japan taken by Expedition 44 crewmember astronaut Scott Kelly, with a Soyuz Spacecraft connected to the Mini Research Module 1 (MRM1), and a Progress Spacecraft visible. Courtesy of NASA.

Star-Struck: An Astronaut’s Pivotal Moment

May 21, 2018 Feb 9, 2022 / 2 min read

For astronaut and best-selling author Scott Kelly — who spent a short time as a Retriever in the 1980s — a small but pivotal spark happened on the UMBC campus. Continue Reading Star-Struck: An Astronaut’s Pivotal Moment

Distance – Terri McCubbin Steel ’12, English

May 3, 2018 Feb 9, 2022 / 4 min read

With memories of her mother to guide her, a daughter rides the Atlantic coast to help cure cancer Continue Reading Distance – Terri McCubbin Steel ’12, English

Local governments’ cybersecurity crisis in 8 charts

Apr 30, 2018 Feb 9, 2022 / 4 min read

Experts from UMBC’s School of Public Policy and Department of Computer Science & Electrical Engineering work together to understand how local governments practice cybersecurity. Continue Reading Local governments’ cybersecurity crisis in 8 charts