UMBC News & Magazine Headlines

Men’s Lacrosse on a Roll, Ready to Host AEC Championship The men’s lacrosse team (ranked 5th in the country in the April 21, 2008 USILA poll) won its school-record ninth straight game with a...

Student Receives Competitive Scholarship Junior Alex Pyles, the new editor-in-chief of The Retriever Weekly, is extending UMBC’s recent run of NCAA prominence. As Pyles continues to...

Putting Student Research Center Stage The mysteries of autism. The art of animation. A chronicle of a blue-collar Baltimore neighborhood. The potential of rattlesnake venom as a drug delivery...

Putting Student Research Center Stage The mysteries of autism. The art of animation. A chronicle of a blue-collar Baltimore neighborhood. The potential of rattlesnake venom as a drug delivery...

Alumni Create Award Winning Documentary UMBC alumni have created an award winning documentary about Adventures for the Cure’s (AFC) annual bike trip to raise money for diabetes research....

UMBC Scientist Joins NASA Mission Timothy Stubbs, a scientist at UMBC and NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center, has won funding for a project that sounds like equal parts Ray Bradbury and early...

Chess “Final 4” Comes to UMBC As the UMBC community continues to honor the men’s basketball team’s historic first appearance in the NCAA Division I Tournament, the campus is positioned to...

Hold Fast to Dreams Hailed as a national model for preparing students of all backgrounds for careers in science and engineering-related fields, the Meyerhoff Scholarship Program will mark...

Exploring the Ethics of Synthetic Life The J. Craig Venter Institute recently announced the creation of the world’s first wholly synthetic bacterial genome. For better or worse, this...

Theatre Addresses Scarcity of Roles for Women The Department of Theatre presents the third annual IN 10 Festival, featuring new theatrical works for young actresses and all audiences,...