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Marie desJardins, Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, has been selected by the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) to participate in NAE’s Frontiers of Engineering...

UMBC and Its Cyberdawgs Tackle a New Challenge Podcast Powered By Podbean Click here if podcast doesn’t play There’s no question that cybersecurity is a booming field. In Maryland, the...

Freeman Hrabowski, President, Jack Suess, Vice President for Information Technology and CIO, and John Fritz, Assistant Vice President for Instructional Technology & New Media, write for the...

Read Science this week and see what Erle Ellis, professor of geography and environmental systems at UMBC, had to say about the Anthropocene.  Ellis also participated in a chat on Science Live...

Dan Shechtman, a former visiting professor at UMBC, won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry last week. Shlomo Carmi, then dean of the College of Engineering, recruited Shechtman in 1997, and the...

John Nelson, co-coordinator of the MA Program in ESL/Bilingual Education, received the Lifetime Achievement Award from Maryland TESOL at their annual conference on Saturday, October 1. The award...

On Tuesday, October 11, at 1 p.m., Kimberly Moffitt, assistant professor of American studies, will be a featured guest on WYPR’s “Midday with Dan Rodricks.” She will discuss Baltimore in film. The...

Lafayette Gilchrist ’92, Africana studies, may be best known in Baltimore as the pianist and composer at the helm of the New Volcanoes, ever-evolving, avant-garde big band. But before he became a...

Occupy Wall Street arrived in Baltimore this week, with Occupy Baltimore participants gathering at McKeldin Square (at Light and Pratt Streets). Protestors have mentioned causes such as fighting...

Maryland Democrats currently control both of the state’s two U.S. Senate seats and six of eight House seats, “and now they’re looking to make it seven,” writes Thomas Schaller, professor of...