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UMBC’s reputation as a place where companies find terrific employees didn’t come out of thin air. The quality of its students and the reputation of its faculty for innovative teaching and...

Safety First It happened at Target. It happened at JPMorgan Chase. It happened at the federal Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Hackers have relentlessly pilfered millions of social...

The ways that universities physically store knowledge – and allow the community to access it –are at the heart of the enterprise of learning and research. What is a university without its library...

The ways that universities physically store knowledge – and allow the community to access it –are at the heart of the enterprise of learning and research. What is a university without its library...

Susan Schneider, business services specialist in biological sciences, grew up nearby and watched UMBC grow. Over the past 42 years, Susan Schneider has worked at UMBC, left, and returned several...

Betty Glascoe Hired a few weeks after UMBC’s first graduating class emerged into the working world, Betty Glascoe was the trailblazer in career services at UMBC. In her 35 years at the...

Earnestine “Ernie” Baker UMBC’s Meyerhoff Scholars Program, created in 1988, is one of the landmark contributions to student success at the university – and has become a national and...

New Tricks The stories on the sidelines of a college basketball game aren’t just huddled strategy sessions or fevered debates with referees. Often, they involve relationships nurtured over years...

For the past four years, alumnae of UMBC’s Lambda Phi Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha (AKA) Sorority, Inc. have been gathering over Homecoming weekend to reconnect and reminisce. For the past three,...

A couple of weeks ago, we put out a call on social media for couples whose love stories began at UMBC. We got so many great responses that while Valentine’s Day may have come and gone, we’ve...