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Kristin Waters has set a 2012 challenge of raising $1,834.00 for First Descents, an organization that offers young adult cancer fighters and survivors a free outdoor adventure experience to...

A film shot last spring about the research of Robert Provine, psychology, and his undergraduate researchers aired in France and Germany on Dec 30.  The English version is forthcoming, but the...

Robert Provine, psychology, has an essay in a newly published collection entitled This Will Make You Smarter. The book is the latest in a series by the website Edge.org, which focuses on an annual...

Maryland State Delegate John Olszewski, a Ph.D. student in public policy at UMBC, spoke out about his vote on Maryland’s same-sex marriage bill in the Baltimore Sun this weekend. Olszewski, 29,...

Dr. Robert K. Webb (family photo, published in the Washington Post) From Marjoleine Kars, Chair of the History Department I regret to inform the campus that Robert K. Webb died on February 14....

From Marjoleine Kars, Chair of the History Department I regret to inform the campus that Robert K. Webb died on February 14. Born in 1922, Bob Webb was long the preeminent American scholar of...

Our New Heroes With a cape draped over his rugby uniform, Jeremy Brickey clutches the complete works of Shakespeare and smiles for a camera. No, this isn’t an embarrassing initiation to the...

In an article about the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, The Washington Post mentioned For All the World to See, an exhibition organized in partnership...

Michael Fallon, senior lecturer of English, will be a featured poet at the ninth annual CityLit Festival. Presented by CityLit Project and Pratt Library, the festival takes place on Saturday,...

Marko H. Bulmer is the Director of the Geophysical Flow Observatory, JCET at UMBC. On January 4, 2012, I traveled to Haiti to join the Brazilian Military Contingent contributing to the United...