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This post originally appeared on the Women’s Center blog. * * * * * On the eve of UMBC’s undergraduate commencement, we are thinking of all the graduating seniors out there who finally made it...

Jennifer Sleeman, Ph.D. ’17, computer science, visiting assistant professor of computer science and electrical engineering, received an award from Microsoft to continue to develop algorithms to...

“Males are showy, females are choosy” has been the accepted paradigm in sexual selection research for decades. By extension, scientists expect females to carefully select members of their own...

UMBC is among nine U.S. research universities and a major cancer institute that just announced plans to give would-be life scientists clear, standardized data on graduate school admissions,...

Cybersecurity is regularly a headliner in the news, especially when personal information stored online has been compromised, whether through a breach, hack, or threat. On Thursday, December 7,...

Alex La Noire ’19, financial economics, recently attended the annual NCAA Student-Athlete Leadership Forum in Washington, D.C. As a member of the soccer team and a student highly dedicated to...

On November 16, Brian Carroll and Christiana Sasser ‘18, mechanical engineering, rose at 3:45 a.m. to drive to Lancaster, PA. After a briefing, they, a student from Millersville University, a...

Two students in the College of Engineering and Information Technology were recognized at HackAE, a 24-hour hackathon, earlier this month for developing an innovative app to help teens struggling...

Humans have been observing the circadian rhythms of plants for millennia, even if they couldn’t fully explain what they saw. In a new piece for The Conversation, Hua Lu, associate professor of...

Members of UMBC’s Student Alumni Association (SAA) hit Main Street in the Commons Tuesday to share their love of philanthropy with the passing campus community. Thanks to every Retriever, near and...