From UMBC News and Magazine
From bagging sugar to modeling floods, Retriever interns deploy their technical chops to make modern life smoother in Maryland and beyond
Pelumni Enilolobo outside the Domino factory. (Photo courtesy of Enilolobo) On a typical day this summer, you may have started the morning stirring sugar into your coffee. After checking the...
Posted: August 17, 2026, 4:03 PM
Career readiness starts here: UMBC expands work-integrated learning opportunities
Earlier this summer, a month before the start of fall classes, newly-minted Retrievers were on campus and ready to start working. Part of UMBC’s initiative to scale up work-integrated learning...
Posted: August 7, 2026, 11:02 AM
Baja team speeds into racing season with strong early showings
As the spring semester wound down at UMBC, a group of dedicated students was gearing up for their latest adventure. The week before finals, 12 students from the Society of Automotive Engineering’s...
Posted: July 16, 2026, 1:36 PM
Music, murals, and manifestos: Bringing history to life in the classroom
Anyone passing by Room 208 of the Sondheim Building this spring might have thought the class was a Latin American music appreciation course. Projected on the screen was a video of the Mexican band...
Posted: July 14, 2026, 4:01 PM
Meet a Retriever—Manikanta Sirumalla, international data science graduate student and entrepreneur
If you want help meeting a big new fitness goal, Manikanta Sirumalla may have the app for you. Manikanta came to UMBC from India as a graduate student pursuing a master’s degree in data science....
Posted: June 26, 2026, 10:00 AM
The Bernard L. Berkowitz Memorial Award for public service gives students the financial freedom to invest in themselves and their education
Rather than taking her usual route to UMBC at the Universities at Shady Grove for her spring public health class, Magaly Lizama Hernandez ’26, psychology, boarded a plane to Geneva, Switzerland,...
Posted: June 17, 2026, 3:45 PM
The Charm Pack solves the case
Originally approached with a quilting mystery that began in 1846, a summer CoLab pulled a group of Retrievers together to examine the evidence. The detective pack expanded their search into robust...
Posted: June 16, 2026, 5:02 PM
Six April arts events not to be missed at UMBC
This academic year, UMBC launched a bold new initiative, Arts+, designed to celebrate our academic excellence in the arts, to elevate the visibility of our arts public programs, and to deepen...
Posted: April 2, 2026, 12:19 PM