UMBC News & Magazine Headlines

For the third consecutive year, UMBC has been named to the Times Higher Education‘s 100 Under 50 list of the world’s best young universities.  This year, UMBC ranked #65, joining such...

US Secretary of Labor Thomas E. Perez, JD, MPP, gave the keynote address at a special event hosted by The Hilltop Institute on April 29, 2014, at UMBC. The event honored Chuck Milligan, JD, MPH,...

Each year since 1996, The Daily Record takes the time to find and recognize the accomplishments of Maryland’s Top 100 Women. These women are selected based upon their roles as leaders, their...

Rebecca Adelman, assistant professor in the Department of Media and Communication Studies, has authored a new book, “Beyond the Checkpoint: Visual Practices in America’s Global War on Terror” (The...

Kevin “KAL” Kallaugher, visiting artist at UMBC, has been named recipient of the 2014 Thomas Nast Award. The Overseas Press Club of America presents this prestigious award for excellence in...

President Hrabowski and three undergraduate scholars from UMBC kicked off the U.S. News STEM Solutions conference with a keynote panel on April 23. Dalton Hughes ’14, chemical engineering, Lauren...

With the primary election in Maryland’s race for governor approaching in June, a new poll out shows that more than half of Maryland voters are still undecided. WJZ 13 interviewed Public Policy...

In the March 2014 issue of World Future Review (WFR), Public Policy Professor John Rennie Short was interviewed about his book Stress Testing the USA. WFR is a quarterly publication that explores...

On Thursday, May 1 and Friday, May 2, The Fletcher School at Tufts University and The MasterCard Center for Inclusive Growth are hosting “The Inclusive City,” a conference to study the economic...

On Thursday, April 24, Deborah Trautman ’04, PhD, Public Policy, was named Chief Executive Officer of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN). AACN represents 750 member schools of...