UMBC News & Magazine Headlines

Ellen Handler Spitz, Honors College and Visual Arts, explains the power of the arts in child well-being and parenting as an invited author of the “Handbook of Child Well-Being” chapter entitled...

American Studies Associate Professor and Chair Theo Gonzalves was quoted in an Inquirer Global Nation story last week about a law highlighting the Filipino story in California. The article...

Every so often, we’ll chat with an alum about what they do and how they go there. Today we’re talking with novelist Mary Volkman – whose pen name is Margo Christie – about writing and living a...

Political science professor Roy Meyers was featured in The Wall Street Journal last week in two articles examining the cost of the government shutdown as it enters its second week. In one...

We will have two ceremonies this December in the Retriever Activities Center (RAC): Graduate Commencement will be held at 10 a.m. on Thursday, December 19 in the RAC Undergraduate...

Yi Huang, in the department of mathematics and statistics, was first author in a recent paper in JAMA Pediatrics. In a press release put out by the University of Virginia, Huang was quoted,...

The defending America East champion UMBC men’s soccer team opens its conference season this weekend ranked no. 7, nationally, according to the National Soccer Coaches Association of America...

In an October 1st tweet, U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz suggested the current federal government shutdown will result in “$10 billion in costs to the economy per week.” Is that accurate?...

The UMBC Athletic Hall of Fame Committee is seeking nominees for induction into the Athletic Hall of Fame. The next induction ceremony will take place on Jan. 25, 2014. To be considered for the...

Every so often, we’ll chat with an alum about what they do and how they got there. Today we’re talking with photographer Marlayna Demond ’11, Visual Arts, about what it’s like to run her own...