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The habitat in central Maryland where Jill Sisson Quinn ’97, English grew up isn’t very different from the habitat in central Wisconsin where she lives now. The birds, insects, and trees are...

Professors Amy Hurst and Shaun Kane have created a community that helps  open up the world for people with disabilities through assistive technology. By Kathryn Masterson Every Monday morning...

With Andrew Vaché, laboratory specialist, department of physics By Meredith Purvis We are made of star stuff, as scientist Carl Sagan once wrote, so it’s no wonder we are fascinated by the...

It’s almost two weeks till Christmas, and Chief Ike’s Mambo Room in the Adams Morgan neighborhood of D.C. has hung up its stockings. There are loads of them—maybe two dozen, dangling out of...

Finding Love at UMBC By Elizabeth Heubeck ’91 * * * * Maybe it was a first date at Quadmania. A coffee at the Commuter Cafe. A pizza at Sorrento’s. Ask those who’ve studied and worked at...

Catonsville resident Gus Russo ’72, political science is married to the mob. And to U.S. history. He is a writer and investigative reporter specializing in the shadowy netherworld of American...

THE BODY ELECTRIC Monitoring significant developments in a patient’s health outside a hospital can be challenging, but two UMBC researchers – Tinoosh Mohsenin and Gymama Slaughter – have won...

UMBC is featured in two articles in The Baltimore Sun’s February Education Supplement. Josh Massey, an interdisciplinary studies major, is profiled in an article titled “Tools of success” for his...

From an early age, Sherece West-Scantlebury ’07, Ph.D., public policy recalls being preoccupied by a single question: Why is this community the way it is? It was a question that first took root...

Music is more than entertainment. It is woven inextricably into the fabric of our culture – and investigating that complex weave can tell us many things about ourselves. Theodore Gonzalves, an...