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Over two weeks at the end of January, six UMBC faculty woke up early to deliver lectures and lead workshops with students more than 9,000 miles away, in the small Asian nation of Brunei, located...

Headshot of Winona Caesar ’09 in her letter writing “command station.” (Marlayna Demond ’11/UMBC) With Winona Caesar ’09, American studies and history As a first-year student—before...

Dear UMBC Community, I am writing to you with some difficult but important news. Today, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) released the findings of its Title IX investigation into the...

Dear UMBC Community,    I write to share the news that Kathy Dettloff, vice president for administration and finance at UMBC, will be leaving her role, effective June 15. We are grateful to...

UMBC’s Interdisciplinary Consortium for Applied Research in the Environment (ICARE) program, a cohort-based master’s program focused on local environmental research, held its first annual ICARE...

By Lisa Traiger Misty Copeland is a ballerina on a mission—and last week she brought that mission to UMBC. Renowned for both her ethereality and powerful muscularity, as well as her activism...

Madelyn (“Maddy”) Pollack ’24, history, is a Humanities Scholar and a member of the Honors College. She is pursuing minors in public history and Judaic studies, and she is active in Hillel and...

Meet Kisha Parker ’00. Kisha is a dual-degree alumna with a B.S. in biological sciences and a B.A. in psychology, and an active member of the UMBC Alumni Association Board of Directors, serving as...

Kimberly R. Moffitt, dean of UMBC’s College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, speaks about the inspiration for and journey of her career in an interview with mastersincommunications.com,...

Written by Erle C. Ellis, professor of geography and environmental systems, UMBC. When people talk about the “Anthropocene,” they typically picture the vast impact human societies are having...