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What Makes a Retriever?

May 19, 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.

UMBC After Dark

May 19, 2022 / 15 min read

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.

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

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.

Local governments’ cybersecurity crisis in 8 charts

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.

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