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Andreas Seas B.S., Chemical Engineering Summa Cum Laude, Certificate: Honors College Hometown: Ellicott City, Maryland Plans: M.D./Ph.D., Duke University UMBC has provided an environment...

Brandon Enriquez B.A., Economics; B.S., Mathematics Summa Cum Laude, Certificate: Honors College Hometown: Ellicott City, Maryland Plans: Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology There...

The spring 2017 UMBC Research Forum focused on innovative research in aging and the life course—a notably far-reaching area of study that transcends a diverse range of fields. Speakers discussed...

A Look Ahead, hosted by UMBC’s College of Natural and Mathematical Sciences (CNMS) on May 3, featured posters from every CNMS department and talks by three distinguished scientists with deep ties...

Three current undergraduate students and one recent alumna have received highly competitive National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Awards for 2017. Daniel Ocasio ‘17,...

The Chesapeake Bay Trust, a non-profit organization dedicated to restoring the Chesapeake Bay, has recently funded a high-resolution mapping project that will inform restoration efforts in the...

UMBC double alumna Sabina Foisor ’12, modern languages and linguistics, and M.A. ’14, intercultural communication, has officially been ranked the top women’s chess player in the nation after...

The Baltimore Sun’s latest special section on education highlights several UMBC programs designed to prepare students to start or advance careers in new areas that combine the most recent...

At the fourth annual Cangialosi Business Innovation Competition, held on April 26, 2017, six finalists pitched their business ideas to a three-judge expert panel. The projects, selected from 33...

UMBC’s new Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Building (ILSB) is an answer to two questions, says Dean Bill LaCourse, of the College of Natural and Mathematical Sciences (CNMS): “What is UMBC going...