UMBC News & Magazine Headlines

The largest class is the history of the UMBC Athletic Hall of Fame will be inducted on Saturday, February 4, 2012. The honorees are Charles Brown (Director of Athletics, 1989-current), Jen...

Fred Worden (assistant professor, Visual Arts) will be featured on the American Originals Now series at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. on December 11 and 17. Since the 1970s,...

The largest class is the history of the UMBC Athletic Hall of Fame will be inducted on Saturday, February 4, 2012. The honorees are Dr. Charles Brown (Director of Athletics 1989-current), Jen...

Bringing UMBC to Montgomery County for a Decade When the Universities at Shady Grove opened, it was an innovative concept in higher education: a place where part-time students could attend...

The UMBC Wind Ensemble, directed by Richard Spece (adjunct instructor, Music), has been invited to perform at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on Tuesday, November 29. The UMBC...

Sandra Abbott, curator of collections and outreach at the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, was featured in Maryland Life Magazine on November 8 in an article, “Unbound,” by Mary Medland....

Photograph by Robert W. Fichter and Robert Friedus of the Memorial to Tullo Morgagni, sculpted by Guido Micheletti (1921, 1930), and located in the Cimitero Monumentale, Milan, Italy. Photograph...

Kimberly Moffitt’s book, Blackberries and Redbones: Critical Articulations of Black Hair and Body Politics in Africana Communities, has received the outstanding book award from the National...

In the November issue of his monthly podcast, “The EMS Squadcast,” Emergency Health Services alumnus Tim Perkins ’97 interviewed UMBC paramedic program director Dwight Polk about Polk’s recent EMS...

Seniors in need often receive excessive donations near the holidays. Julie Rosenthal, program management specialist for Asian studies, makes sure that they are fed the rest of the year, too....