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Can a Parking Lot be Good for the Chesapeake Bay? To view scenes from UMBC CUERE’s pervious concrete installation, click the play button below. 9/3/2008 The answer could be yes, if it’s...

Green Skies: A Better Environment for Air Travel Hillol Kargupta logs thousands of frequent flier miles each year to do research, conduct business for a successful, global firm and to visit his...

Each year, the UMBC Alumni Association presents awards to honor alumni for their professional and personal achievements and service to the University.   Learn more about our past award winners....

Erickson School Helps Launch Nation’s First Elder ER In partnership with aging experts from the Erickson School at UMBC, Holy Cross Hospital (Silver Spring, Md.) recently launched one of...

Q. We’ve named this feature “Up on the Roof” because taking visitors up to the very top of the Administration Building is one of your trademarks as UMBC’s president. How did it begin? – Richard...

Welcome to UMBC Magazine! The university has created this magazine to make connections. And, more specifically, reconnections. I can modestly put myself forward as one of those reconnections....

Q&A: Provost Elliot Hirschman On July 1, Elliot Hirshman became the new Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs at UMBC. Hirshman has a strong cross-disciplinary background...

Talk to Paula Whittington ’01, biological sciences, and you might not guess she’s a researcher who’s getting potentially life-saving results. Modest and soft-spoken, the former Meyerhoff Scholar...

What is science telling us about autism? By Joel N. Shurkin Few medical disorders engender as much controversy as autism, or as it is now known, autism spectrum disorder or ASD. The term...

Last year, Michael Graham ’84, M.P.S., was thinking about retirement as an intelligence officer in the U.S. Naval Reserves. After more than two decades in the reserves, Graham had risen to the...