UMBC News & Magazine Headlines

A delegation of UMBC Africana studies students recently joined teams from three continents for the 17th annual International Model African Union (MAU) Conference in Washington D.C., hosted by...

Q: What’s the real story behind True Grit? Why was a Chesapeake Bay Retriever chosen as the school’s mascot? —Zozscha Bomhardt ’93 Campus Sam was UMBC’s very first live mascot. A contest during...

Good luck, Retrievers! UMBC men’s basketball is officially heading to the America East championship final to defend our title. The Retrievers take on the Vermont Catamounts this Saturday, March...

Frances Carter-Johnson, M.S. ’07, applied physics, and Ph.D. ’11, public policy, is used to getting questions about why she jumped from physics to public policy and explaining how, in her career...

Maryland Historical Society to launch year-long display of quilts by Mimi Dietrich ’70, American studies When Mimi Dietrich sews, the corners of her mouth form a soft, confident smile as she...

They never said it would be easy, but they did say it would be exciting. After battling through two rounds of fatiguing overtime, UMBC men’s basketball bested Hartford 90-85 to advance to the...

According to U.S. News rankings released today, UMBC graduate programs are some of the best in the nation for 2020. The rankings are developed based on expert opinions and statistical indicators...

UMBC men’s basketball team captain Joe Sherburne ‘18, financial economics, has nabbed top national honors as the 2018-19 Google Cloud Academic All-America® Team Member of the Year for Division I...

When Kevin Tran ‘12, chemical engineering, was a student at UMBC, he took a course on sensors that made him realize the best high tech solution is sometimes a low tech solution. Govind Rao,...

UMBC’s education department has built strong, lasting partnerships across Maryland’s public school districts, from Baltimore County and Baltimore City to Howard County and Anne Arundel County....