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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....

This week EMS World features an EMS Squadcast interview with Dwight Polk, UMBC’s paramedic program director. Polk was interviewed by Tim Perkins, a UMBC alumnus who now works for the Virginia...

Our everyday lives are increasingly affected by events and issues beyond our nation’s borders, and many colleges are responding by creating specific programs that address the need to understand...

On Tuesday, November 15, UMBC professor Bruce Walz, chair of Emergency Health Services and past president of the National Association of EMS Educators, represented NAEMSE at a White House meeting...