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When Saira Khan ’09, English, was accepted into UMBC, she had just moved back to the United States form Pakistan. As Khan reacclimated to the country, she found UMBC’s welcoming campus a good fit....

Imagine a sheet that’s only one atom thick. It won’t keep you very warm, but single-atom-thick materials under development might soon do extraordinary things, like filter salt from water, collect...

by Susan Sonnenschein, Professor, Applied Development Psychology, and doctoral student Rebecca Dowling, M.A. ’16, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and Shari Renee Metzger, Ph.D. ’18,...

Eli Meir Kaplan/AP Images for American Institute of Certified Public Accountants For many in the UMBC community, “success is never final” has become a familiar motto. Kimberly Ellison-Taylor ’93,...

The communities surrounding UMBC are rich and full of culture and fun — as well as very accessible! From Baltimore to Catonsville, to Washington, D.C., and everywhere in between, UMBC students are...

Teachers at Lakeland Elementary/Middle School celebrated another year of impressive gains in math performance when Baltimore City published the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College...

Two years ago, developmental biologist Rachel Brewster embarked on a journey to learn more about how zebrafish embryos manage to survive for up to 50 hours without oxygen, with support from a...

A group of 125 UMBC faculty, staff, and students gathered today for UMBC’s annual Title IX/Sexual Misconduct Seminar, focused on caring and effective response to sexual misconduct. “There is...

by Amy Bhatt,  Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies, UMBC The Indian Supreme Court has legalized homosexuality, overturning a 157-year ban on consensual gay sex. In a nearly...

On September 19, 1966, UMBC opened its doors to students for the first day of classes in the institution’s history. Mimi Dietrich ’70, American studies, was among those “pioneer” students,...