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It’s been a busy week in the media for Donald Norris, UMBC public policy chair and director of the Maryland Institute for Policy Analysis and Research. Norris offered expert comments for four...

Today the Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) announced that UMBC is one of 21 graduate schools selected to participate in a study to examine completion and attrition among underrepresented...

UMBC Goes Medieval As a child, Lauren Bucca loved reading fictional books about medieval times.  As she got older, she devoured historical books on the period, exploring a world populated by...

Kevin “KAL” Kallaugher, editorial cartoonist for The Economist and UMBC artist-in-residence, was featured on WAMU’s Kojo Nnamdi Show last week (interview begins 19 minutes in). KAL discussed his...

When asked to chronicle her life since college, illustrator Monica Gallagher did so in the way that meant most to her: in comic book form. Check out her essay from the Winter 2012 issue of UMBC...

When asked to chronicle her life since college, illustrator Monica Gallagher did so in the way that meant most to her: in comic book form. Check out her essay from the Winter 2012 issue of UMBC...

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Slni3GRhM0Q] Before the first note sounds, the dance studio—with its heavy black tape stripes lining the floor—s like an enormous blank page of sheet...

Ellen Handler Spitz, honors college professor of visual arts, will visit Belgrade, Serbia over spring break to give a talk on her book “Art and Psyche.”  The book was recently translated to...

How the 1969 battle over UMBC’s literary magazine licked off an era of discontent at the university. “Literary Magazine to Determine True University Status of UMBC” The headline in the February...

How the 1969 battle over UMBC’s literary magazine kicked off an era of discontent at the university. “Literary Magazine to Determine True University Status of UMBC” The headline in the...