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Black Girls Vote, a nonprofit organization designed to boost voter turnout in Baltimore, was recently featured in the Baltimore Sun. In the article, Kate Drabinski, a lecturer of gender and...

Current common tests for sexually-transmitted infections (STI) require sending samples off to a lab to be grown and analyzed, which means that patients must wait a few days to receive the results...

The last five years have witnessed a wave of significant new fairy tale books. In a recent article published in the New Republic, Honors College Professor Ellen Handler Spitz explains why the...

As UMBC is in the midst of its 50th anniversary year, the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences (CAHSS) is reaffirming its commitment to inclusive excellence, teaching and research...

Hailed as “groundbreaking” by The Baltimore Sun’s David Zurawik, Revolution of the Eye: Modern Art and the Birth of American Television, the first exhibition to explore how avant-garde art...

The UMBC Chess A chess team finished in tenth place in the 2015 Pan– American Intercollegiate Team Chess Championship, held December 27-30 at Oberlin College in Ohio. This marks the 25th year...

We here in Alumni Relations wish you and yours a warm, happy holiday season. (And by warm, we don’t necessarily mean the temperature, though if you’re in Maryland that definitely seems to be the...

Bachelor’s and master’s programs in cybersecurity at Maryland colleges and universities are growing rapidly as more students become interested in careers in the industry. At UMBC, the number of...

UMBC environmental engineering students have created a YouTube video to help middle and high school students and the broader public understand the kinds of work environmental engineers do and the...

Tyson King-Meadows, chair of Africana studies and associate professor of political science, has been appointed associate dean of UMBC’s College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (CAHSS),...