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Baltimore’s McKeldin Fountain, an icon of Brutalist architecture, may have been demolished in 2016, but Lisa Moren, professor of visual arts, wants to ensure visitors can still experience its...

Spring time is the season of hope at Boordy Vineyards. Emerald shoots appear on the grapevines across rolling hills. In May, perfume from tiny flowers fills the air. “Everything looks under...

This spring, the department of music welcomes new members to the UMBC community: two violins and a violin bow, contributed to the department by Joel Liebman, professor of chemistry and...

Q: I was wondering if you had any advice for a finance student? — Godwin Okoro, senior financial economics student A: I think it’s really important that students work with our Career Center,...

UMBC students have rewritten the record books in 2018. With graduation around the corner, and our soon-to-be new Retriever alumni preparing for graduate school, careers, and research around the...

UMBC graduate programs are among the best nationwide, according to the 2019 U.S. News Best Graduate Schools rankings, which makes a new scholarship announced this March an even sweeter deal for...

Donna L. Young (left) and her daughter, Dr. Nancy Young, Vice President for Student Affairs, unveil a plaque celebrating the naming of UMBC’s Scene Shop. Mother’s Day came a week early for Donna...

UMBC has once again been named to the Forbes 2018 Best Value College list, a ranking that combines factors relating to quality of education and affordability. While UMBC’s 2017 ranking in the 200...

Cancer is most devastating when it metastasizes—when tumor cells break away, travel through the bloodstream, and then attach elsewhere, only to grow another tumor. A significant amount of...

With memories of her mother to guide her, a daughter rides the Atlantic coast to help cure cancer It’s a crisp April morning as I pedal through Baltimore’s back-roads with a band of strangers, a...