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The Chronicle of Higher Education has named UMBC an outstanding academic workplace for the seventh consecutive year. UMBC is one of only 80 universities to receive the “Great Colleges to Work For”...

What happens when a scientist gets a research result that flies in the face of their expectations? More research leading to new, compelling discoveries. Yonathan Zohar’s lab at the Institute of...

An international court ruling could escalate geopolitical tensions around the world. That’s according to School of Public Policy Professor John Rennie Short, who explains in a new op-ed how an...

Other scientists thought it couldn’t be done. One called it “ridiculously impossible.” But Michael Levin, a biology professor at Tufts University, disagreed. Levin hired Daniel Lobo, now an...

Why do half of U.S. doctoral students leave before earning their degrees?  A new article in The Atlantic examines graduate student experiences to understand the factors that contribute to this...

In response to the tragic events in Louisiana, Minnesota, and Texas last week, and ongoing acts of hatred and violence across the country and around the world, President Freeman Hrabowski and...

In two new publications, Honors College Professor Ellen Handler Spitz provides rich analysis of intersections between psychology and the arts. In a special online issue of the American...

Less than a week after FORBES named UMBC one of the nation’s top 100 public universities, MONEY magazine has confirmed it, describing UMBC as an academic powerhouse and a solid value for students...

UMBC swimming and diving standout Emily Escobedo ’17, psychology, capped her historic year with a strong finish in the 200m breaststroke at the U.S. Swimming Olympic Trials, held last week in...

UMBC and the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) celebrated new and recent recipients of UMB-UMBC Research and Innovation Partnership Grants at a symposium held last month on UMB’s downtown...