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Tanguy Ringoir Wins Grandmaster Title

Tanguy Ringoir ’18 financial economics, recently won the Grandmaster Norm Invitational held at the Chinggis Chess Club, Burlingame, Calif. The Grandmaster (GM) title is the highest title a chess...

Posted: February 17, 2015, 8:57 PM

Hilltop Researchers in the Journal of Pediatrics

Hilltop Senior Research Analyst Michael T. Abrams, MPH, and Policy Analyst Carl H. Mueller, MS, are co-authors of a new study published in the Journal of Pediatrics titled “Transcranial Doppler...

Posted: February 17, 2015, 8:37 PM

Biology and Batteries

In the quest to make a better battery Evgenia Barannikova, a graduate student at UMBC in the department of chemistry and biochemistry, has isolated a peptide, a small sequence of amino acids,...

Posted: February 17, 2015, 8:23 PM

Call for Class Notes

Happy belated New Year, alumni! We know that you are all out in the world making profound and positive differences, and as the new year rolls along, we would love to hear about what you’ve been...

Posted: February 17, 2015, 4:00 PM

Eric Dyer, Visual Arts, in Two New York Exhibitions

Eric Dyer, Visual Arts, is featured in Wave & Particle, a group exhibition that celebrates Creative Capital’s fifteenth anniversary, at Ronald Feldman Fine Arts in New York. The exhibition...

Posted: February 16, 2015, 8:44 PM

Pres. Hrabowski Inspires at Maryland Arts Day 2015

President Hrabowski gave the keynote address at Maryland Arts Day last week. Maryland Arts Day is an annual event hosted by Maryland Citizens for the Arts, a statewide arts advocacy organization....

Posted: February 16, 2015, 3:13 PM

It’s Good to Be Happy: The Life of Albin O. Kuhn

Editor’s Note: UMBC has a long and storied history, and it all began in 1966 with Albin O. Kuhn, UMBC’s first chancellor. So we sat down with Albin’s granddaughter, Julie Kuhn Sanchez ’10, to...

Posted: February 16, 2015, 1:00 PM

John Rennie Short, Public Policy, in The Conversation

In light of the recent significant snowfall across parts of the Northeast, School of Public Policy professor John Rennie Short wrote an article for The Conversation in which he analyzed the impact...

Posted: February 12, 2015, 5:50 PM