UMBC News & Magazine Headlines

Gloria Chuku, associate professor of Africana Studies and affiliate associate professor of both Gender and Women’s Studies and Language, Literacy and Culture, is editor of the new volume The Igbo...

A panel discussion for the exhibition, Cyber In Securities, curated by Lisa Moren, visual arts, and presented by the Washington Project for the Arts will take place Saturday, September 21 at 3 pm...

Under the Affordable Care Act everyone who files a federal income tax form will soon be required to have health insurance or face a penalty. Open enrollment in the Maryland Health Benefit Exchange...

The Baltimore Sun reports that Texas Gov. Rick Perry will hold private meetings with companies during a visit to Maryland next week as part of his “mission to rustle up business for the Lone Star...

On Sunday, September 22 at 12:55, Manil Suri, professor of mathematics, will speak at Washington D.C.’s National Book Festival. The festival will be help on the National Mall on September 21 and...

The University System of Maryland (USM) is 25 years old. And you are invited to participate in the celebration. Throughout the 2013-14 academic year, the USM is observing this milestone with a...

Kimberly Moffitt, writer and professor of American Studies, will join other prominent leaders in higher education in a two-hour panel discussion on race equality, civil rights and policy change at...

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has awarded a 3-year, $750,000 grant the Maryland Institute for Policy Analysis and Research (MIPAR), The Hilltop Institute at UMBC, and the...

UMBC’s recent U.S. News and World Report rankings, in which the university was named the #1 “Up-and-Coming” school, and the #6 school for “Best Undergraduate Teaching,” was covered by several...

In advance of last Saturday’s announcement that Tokyo will host the 2020 Summer Olympic Games, public policy professor John Rennie Short offered a fresh take on how to make the games more...