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In Demand Even in tough economic times, UMBC students are in high demand. UMBC’s commitment to ensuring that students graduate with substantive experience through internships, co-ops,...

NCAA Bound For the second time in school history, the UMBC men’s soccer program will compete in the NCAA Division I Championships as the Retrievers advanced, 5-4, in penalty kicks in the America...

Nifty Teaching For about 300 middle schools students in western Maryland, a recent science class masqueraded as a paper-airplane competition. Anne Spence, an assistant professor of mechanical...

Securing Cyberspace Military commanders often talk about the need for “situational awareness” — they want to see and track the potential threats facing them, whether they come from planes,...

Spectrum The Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture (CADVC) presents “Spectrum: 2010 Visual Arts Faculty Exhibition.” The first exhibition in a new series, “Spectrum” is designed to give a...

Star on the Rise When Luke Roberts plays piano and sings, he is at ease and does so with a purely natural ability.  He is confident and plays his original songs with the grace and passion of a...

Victory!       Watch game highlights > UMBC junior midfielder Andrew Bulls scored with 11:58 remaining, as the Retrievers rallied from a 1-0 deficit to defeat tenth-ranked Princeton, 2-1,...

Rebecca Boehling, professor of history and the director of the Dresher Center for the Humanities, will read from her recent book, Life and Loss in the Shadow of the Holocaust: A Jewish Family’s...

A comic strip created by Donna Lewis ’86, English, an attorney in Washington, D.C., will be syndicated through the Washington Post Writers Group, according to the Baltimore Jewish Times. Enter...

Brian Dannelly ’97, visual arts, has been tapped to direct actor Chris Colfer in the high school comedy film, “Struck by Lightning.” Colfer recently won a Golden Globe for his portrayal of Kurt...