UMBC News & Magazine Headlines

Written by John Rennie Short, professor emeritus of public policy, UMBC Five years after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, many U.S. cities are still adjusting to a new normal, with more...

A six-person UMBC team built international connections at the “PIWOT – World of Technology” conference, held in late January in Mumbai, India. The conference is organized by the alumni association...

Making assumptions is a habit of life, a way to speed up decisions. Sometimes these mental short-cuts, however, lead us astray. Such was the situation when Lorenz Kopp, an engineering...

A new course in UMBC’s Department of Mathematics and Statistics is having a positive impact on student success in a notoriously difficult course for math majors everywhere. Two new papers by UMBC...

Meet Rylee Kennedy ’21, geography and environmental studies. By day, Rylee works as a marketing coordinator at Vanguard Building Solutions. However, it’s when she clocks out that the real fun...

UMBC has received $1.5 million from the National Institute of Standards and Technology to organize a new UMBC Quantum Science Institute. The funding will support graduate fellowships for students...

Dear UMBC Students, Over the last few weeks, multiple presidential executive orders have been announced that impact our campus community. I assure all of you that your education, safety, and...

Written by Ming Xie, assistant professor of emergency health management and public health systems, UMBC. Imagine a world in which a hurricane devastates the Gulf Coast, and the U.S. has no...

As Sister States, Maryland and Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, (south of Tokyo) have collaborated in various initiatives in business, education, healthcare, and culture exchange programs since 1981,...

Written by Richard Forno, principal lecturer in computer science and electrical engineering, UMBC The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), President Donald Trump’s special commission...