Latinx Film Festival

In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, the MLLI department, UMBC Library, Albin O. Kuhn and Office of Community and Culture present, The Latinx Film Festival.

On Sept. 21 Unleash the drama of  three undocumented Bronx teenagers are graduating from high school while navigating the treacherous waters of trying to get their papers to stay in the US, in “From Nowhere”

📍 Where: ENG 027

 ⏰ When: 4:30PM-6:30PM 

On Sept. 29 Grab your dinner and come to Library Gallery to watch an inspiring truth story of a cross-country team from a mainly Latino High School in California. “McFarland USA” is a powerful story about culture, community, and the true meaning of team. Watch how a small town transformed a coach, and how a coach helped a team make history.

📍 Where: Library Gallery

 ⏰ When: 5:30PM-7:30PM 

On Oct. 8  Dive into theworld of “las Tres Sisters”, a powerful film of sisterhood, identity and resilience of  three Mexican-Americansisters that take an adventure through Mexico to complete a traditional pilgrimage and repair their relationships.  

📍 Where: Library Gallery

 ⏰ When: 5:30PM-7:30PM 

Latinx Film Festival

In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, the MLLI department presents, Latinx Film Festival. 

On Sept. 21 Unleash the drama of  three undocumented Bronx teenagers are graduating from high school while navigating the treacherous waters of trying to get their papers to stay in the US, in “From Nowhere”

📍 Where: ENG 027

 ⏰ When: 4:30PM-6:30PM 

On Sept. 29 Grab your dinner and come to Library Gallery to watch an inspiring truth story of a cross-country team from a mainly Latino High School in California. “McFarland USA” is a powerful story about culture, community, and the true meaning of team. Watch how a small town transformed a coach, and how a coach helped a team make history.

📍 Where: Library Gallery

 ⏰ When: 5:30PM-7:30PM 

On Oct. 8  Dive into theworld of “las Tres Sisters”, a powerful film of sisterhood, identity and resilience of  three Mexican-Americansisters that take an adventure through Mexico to complete a traditional pilgrimage and repair their relationships.  

📍 Where: Library Gallery

 ⏰ When: 5:30PM-7:30PM 

hackUMBC is setting out on its 12th annual expedition!

Gather your gear and prepare to build at hackUMBC 2026, a 24-hour hackathon hosted by UMBC students on September 26 to 27, 2026, in the Engineering and ITE buildings. This hands-on experience is a great way to build skills, collaborate on innovative projects, and connect with a vibrant tech community. Whether you are starting your very first coding journey or you are an experienced builder ready to tackle tough challenges, hackUMBC welcomes students of all skill levels and majors.

Event Highlights:

• Beginner-friendly environment - no prior experience required

• Team competitions solving real-world challenges

• Workshops on AI/ML, Web Development, Game Development, and more

• Over $5,000 in prizes and lots of swag

• Networking opportunities with industry sponsors

• Explore internships, mentorships, and career pathways

• Free meals and snacks all weekend

• Fun activities like cup stacking, jousting, and gaming tournaments

Don’t miss this opportunity to learn, build, and conquer your goals!

Register for your spot now at: https://www.hackumbc.tech/sign-up

For more event information, visit our hackUMBC Website and follow us on Instagram.

If you have any questions, feel free to contact us at hackumbc@gmail.com.

Your next great quest awaits at the castle!

- The hackUMBC Team

First year graduate students and senior undergrads: Preparing to submit your NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program Application by the October 16th deadline?? The Graduate School & GSPD are offering a GRFP & FELLOWSHIP BOOTCAMP!

This in-person workshop, facilitated by Dr. Michael Westrate, will guide you through tools and tactics to refine your NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) application before submission. You'll also learn strategies that apply broadly to other fellowship applications.  Each Fellowship provides three years of support over a five-year Fellowship period. For each of the three years of support, NSF provides a $37,000 stipend and a $16,000 Cost of Education allowance provided to the institution of higher education (IHE) in lieu of all tuition and mandatory fees for each Fellow using the support in a Fellowship year.  Competition is steep, but UMBC has a proud history of several undergraduate and graduate students winning this prestigious fellowship, and we are committed to helping more students achieve this success!

This hands-on session is designed to help both senior undergraduates and first year graduate students prepare strong, competitive applications.

 Saturday, September 26, 2026
 10 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
 Public Policy building (PUP) 105

Pizza lunch will be provided. 

Come ready to polish your statements, get feedback, and strengthen your materials before the GRFP Octover deadlines!

About Dr. Westrate: Through similar Boot Camps each of the last six years, Dr. Westrate and his team have assisted over 500 student applicants to major national awards. Of those applicants, more than 100 won the prestigious NSF GRFP award or received Honorable Mention, and over 200 others won similar awards (e.g. Fulbright). The program will consist of interactive workshop sessions, and will cover everything from finding fellowship opportunities to leveraging fellowship wins with graduate school admissions.

Please click "going" below if you plan to attend so we can ensure there is sufficient food and send you reminders and resources to succeed. If you have special dietary needs beyond pizza, please email Aubrie Zepp, azepp1@umbc.edu. 

The Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture presents Somewhere Over the Rainbow of Row Homes, We Fly, an intergenerational group exhibition organized by curator Angela N. Carroll. On view from August 25 through November 24, the exhibition features artists based in or connected to Baltimore, exploring the city’s cultural landscape through experimental and interdisciplinary practices. The exhibition title is inspired by the narrative poetry of multidisciplinary artist NIA JUNE.

Somewhere Over the Rainbow of Row Homes, We Fly includes work by Kelvin Bulluck, Roy Crosse, Brianna Faulkner, Darrius Fox, Lehna Huie, Jeffrey Kent, Ada Pinkston, Kim Rice, Margaret Rorison, Ernest Shaw, Shan Wallace, and Jasmine Gabrielle Washington, and the presentation of a filmic work produced by the collective NIA JUNE + Kirby Griffin + APoetNamedNate.

Through serial compositions, photographic triptychs, floating installations, and cinema, the participating artists examine themes of home, memory, and community. The exhibition aims to offer perspective on these themes through the lens of Baltimore’s creative community.

Public Programs

Thursday, September 3, 6–8 p.m.
Opening reception and artist panel moderated by Angela N. Carroll in conversation with with Brianna Faulkner, Jeffrey Kent, Kim Rice, Margaret Rorison, and Shan Wallace.

Thursday, October 15, 6–8 p.m.
Free outdoor concert by Brandon Woody alongside public projection of The Unveiling of God / a love letter to my forefathers by NIA JUNE + Kirby Griffin + APoetNamedNate.

Thursday, November 5, 6–8 p.m.
Artist roundtable on experimental praxis, moderated by Ernest Shaw.

November 19, 6–8 p.m.
Artist talk on memory, communal and familial photographipc archives, and land sovereignty, moderated by Jasmine Gabrielle Washington.

About the Curator

In her curatorial work, Angela N. Carroll has organized exhibitions that examine and celebrate Black identity and community memory, elevating artists and historical narratives in the Upper South. Her latest effort, Jerrell Gibbs: No Solace in the Shade at the Brandywine Museum of Art is accompanied by a monograph published by Rizzoli New York. As a scholar, Carroll has contributed critical writing to exhibition catalogs published by The Baltimore Museum of Art, The Des Moines Art Center, The Banneker-Douglass-Tubman Museum, The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Nerman MOCA, and the CueArt Foundation, among many others. These writings evidence her significant contribution to contemporary art historical discourse. Carroll intermittently teaches at American University, MICA and UMBC.

Visitor Information

Admission is free.

The CADVC is open Tuesday and Wednesday from 12 to 5 p.m., and Thursday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Please visit here for directions and parking information.

Visitors who need specific accommodations to attend the exhibition or events should contact the CADVC at cadvc@umbc.edu or 410-455-3188.

All events at CADVC are open for full participation by all individuals regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, or any other protected category under applicable federal law, state law, and the University’s nondiscrimination policy.

Photo by Tedd Henn for UMBC.

Yoga on the ball is based on the foundation of Hatha yoga, using the ball to support and enhance each pose. By moving the ball in harmony with your breathing, students can create a deeper connection between mind and body. This practice helps support the joints and spine, improve balance, build core strength, and deepen yoga poses.

The class begins with a 15 minutes warm-up, followed by a progression toward the peak pose. The session concludes with cool-down and a relaxing Savasana. The class is suitable for beginners as well as students of all experience levels.

For safety, it is important to choose the correct ball size based on student height. To determine the proper size, sit on the ball with your feet flat on the floor, your knees should be bent at a 90-degree angle. Please plan arrive before the class begins, instructor will assist you in selecting the appropriate ball size.

The Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery presents Lewis Hine in Maryland, on display from August 24 through December 18. The exhibition will be accompanied by Lisa Oppenheim/Lewis Hine: Spine/Verso.

From 1908 to 1924, documentary photographer Lewis Hine (American, 1874–1940) traveled throughout the United States, using his camera to document child labor on behalf of the National Child Labor Committee (NCLC). He photographed children working in coal mines, cotton mills, farms, tenements, and city streets. The NCLC used Hine’s photographs and eyewitness reports to support its campaigns for labor regulation and reform. His images appeared in pamphlets, posters, traveling exhibitions, and lantern-slide presentations across the country. Ultimately, these searing photographs helped shape labor legislation in the United States and established a model for documentary photography.

In July 1909, Hine visited Maryland, photographing child workers at Bottomley berry farms in Anne Arundel County and at the J. S. Farrand Packing Company in Baltimore. Drawn from UMBC’s Photography Collections, this exhibition explores the places and people behind these photographs. A selection of Hine’s most iconic and enduring images situates his Maryland work within the broader context of his documentary project. The exhibition also examines how Hine’s photographs functioned as tools of visual persuasion, working in tandem with captions, pamphlets, slogans, and posters to shape public opinion — and ultimately legislation — regarding the changing role of children in the workforce and in American society.

This exhibition commemorates MD250 and the U.S. Semiquincentennial, exploring themes foundational to the nation’s history, including immigration and migration, the power of documentary photographs, and social justice.

Public Programs

Curatorial tour and opening reception
Thursday September 17, 5 p.m.

Panel Discussion: Food and Labor in Maryland
Thursday October 22, 6 p.m., followed by a reception
This event is co-organized with Department of American Studies and the Orser Center for Public Humanities at UMBC.

Closing reception
Thursday December 3, 6 p.m.

All public program are free and open to the public.

Lisa Oppenheim/Lewis Hine: Spine/Verso

Lewis Hine in Maryland is accompanied by an installation of two works from artist Lisa Oppenheim’s Spine series, in which she appropriates images by Lewis Hine from the Library of Congress. Enlarged to life size, the photographs depict the backs of adolescent textile workers whose bodies were curved and misshapen by their labor. Oppenheim has bifurcated each image along the vertical axis of the spine, emphasizing the physical impact of repetitive work on the body. Lisa Oppenheim/Lewis Hine: Spine/Verso places Oppenheim’s works in dialogue with a selection of photographs from UMBC’s Lewis Hine Collection, displayed with their versos — or backs — visible to viewers.

In 2023, with support from a National Endowment for the Humanities Preservation Assistance Grant, Special Collections staff undertook a major initiative to rehouse the Lewis Hine photographs and digitize their versos. The backs of the photographs bear captions, annotations, and inscriptions by Hine and others employed by the NCLC, testifying to their use in the organization’s publications and promotional campaigns. Together, these materials reveal the many forms of labor documented in Hine’s work and the ways that labor is imprinted upon — and remains legible within — the bodies of his subjects.

Lisa Oppenheim was born in 1975 in New York, New York. She received a BA in art and semiotics from Brown University in 1998 and an MFA in film and video from Bard College in 2001. She attended the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program for studio art in 2003. Oppenheim’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at MUDAM, The Contemporary Art Museum of Luxembourg (2025); Huis Marseille, Amsterdam (2024), Museum of Contemporary Art Denver (2017), and the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (2016). In 2014, Oppenheim was the recipient of the AIMIA|AGO Photography Prize from the Art Gallery of Ontario and the Shpilman International Photography Prize from the Israel Museum. Her work is held in the permanent collections of The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Museum of Modern Art, New York, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, among others. She lives and works in Brooklyn.

Image: Lisa Oppenheim, Correct posture for 4663. Need for advice of examining physician, 2016. Dye sublimation print on aluminum, 41 3/4 x 61 1/2 inches; 106 x 156.2 cm (overall). Courtesy the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York.

Visitor Information

Admission is free. For driving directions and parking information, please visit here.

Library Gallery hours:
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday: 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Thursday: 10 a.m. – 7 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday: 12 p.m. – 5 p.m.

Top image: Lewis Wickes Hine, Dangerous Business. Boy working at canning machine with open gearing. Many such machines and boys too. J. S. Farrand Packing Co., Baltimore, Maryland, 1909. Gelatin silver print, 5 x 7 in. The Photography Collections, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), P858.

Get cozy with (seb) while watching Scott Pilgrim vs the World. Snacks will be provided!!!

Join us at Retriever Soccer Park on Saturday, September 26 as UMBC opens up America East Conference play versus UMass Lowell. 

Saturday night's game is Greek Night w/ all UMBC Greek Life students encouraged to come out to the game, bring flags, and sit at midfield to cheer on the Retrievers. 

The first 150 fans in attendance will also receieve Dawghouse-branded Pajama Pants!

The UMBC Department of Music invites you to the 2026 Annual UMBC Brass Day! This event is FREE and open to all brass players, friends, family, and colleagues.

Participants will have the opportunity to meet brass faculty, tour our facilities, attend masterclasses, and perform with the brass faculty and current UMBC students in the incredible Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall! There will be plenty of music, food, fun, and all things brass!

You can learn more about this event here.

The Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery presents Lewis Hine in Maryland, on display from August 24 through December 18. The exhibition will be accompanied by Lisa Oppenheim/Lewis Hine: Spine/Verso.

From 1908 to 1924, documentary photographer Lewis Hine (American, 1874–1940) traveled throughout the United States, using his camera to document child labor on behalf of the National Child Labor Committee (NCLC). He photographed children working in coal mines, cotton mills, farms, tenements, and city streets. The NCLC used Hine’s photographs and eyewitness reports to support its campaigns for labor regulation and reform. His images appeared in pamphlets, posters, traveling exhibitions, and lantern-slide presentations across the country. Ultimately, these searing photographs helped shape labor legislation in the United States and established a model for documentary photography.

In July 1909, Hine visited Maryland, photographing child workers at Bottomley berry farms in Anne Arundel County and at the J. S. Farrand Packing Company in Baltimore. Drawn from UMBC’s Photography Collections, this exhibition explores the places and people behind these photographs. A selection of Hine’s most iconic and enduring images situates his Maryland work within the broader context of his documentary project. The exhibition also examines how Hine’s photographs functioned as tools of visual persuasion, working in tandem with captions, pamphlets, slogans, and posters to shape public opinion — and ultimately legislation — regarding the changing role of children in the workforce and in American society.

This exhibition commemorates MD250 and the U.S. Semiquincentennial, exploring themes foundational to the nation’s history, including immigration and migration, the power of documentary photographs, and social justice.

Public Programs

Curatorial tour and opening reception
Thursday September 17, 5 p.m.

Panel Discussion: Food and Labor in Maryland
Thursday October 22, 6 p.m., followed by a reception
This event is co-organized with Department of American Studies and the Orser Center for Public Humanities at UMBC.

Closing reception
Thursday December 3, 6 p.m.

All public program are free and open to the public.

Lisa Oppenheim/Lewis Hine: Spine/Verso

Lewis Hine in Maryland is accompanied by an installation of two works from artist Lisa Oppenheim’s Spine series, in which she appropriates images by Lewis Hine from the Library of Congress. Enlarged to life size, the photographs depict the backs of adolescent textile workers whose bodies were curved and misshapen by their labor. Oppenheim has bifurcated each image along the vertical axis of the spine, emphasizing the physical impact of repetitive work on the body. Lisa Oppenheim/Lewis Hine: Spine/Verso places Oppenheim’s works in dialogue with a selection of photographs from UMBC’s Lewis Hine Collection, displayed with their versos — or backs — visible to viewers.

In 2023, with support from a National Endowment for the Humanities Preservation Assistance Grant, Special Collections staff undertook a major initiative to rehouse the Lewis Hine photographs and digitize their versos. The backs of the photographs bear captions, annotations, and inscriptions by Hine and others employed by the NCLC, testifying to their use in the organization’s publications and promotional campaigns. Together, these materials reveal the many forms of labor documented in Hine’s work and the ways that labor is imprinted upon — and remains legible within — the bodies of his subjects.

Lisa Oppenheim was born in 1975 in New York, New York. She received a BA in art and semiotics from Brown University in 1998 and an MFA in film and video from Bard College in 2001. She attended the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program for studio art in 2003. Oppenheim’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at MUDAM, The Contemporary Art Museum of Luxembourg (2025); Huis Marseille, Amsterdam (2024), Museum of Contemporary Art Denver (2017), and the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (2016). In 2014, Oppenheim was the recipient of the AIMIA|AGO Photography Prize from the Art Gallery of Ontario and the Shpilman International Photography Prize from the Israel Museum. Her work is held in the permanent collections of The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Museum of Modern Art, New York, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, among others. She lives and works in Brooklyn.

Image: Lisa Oppenheim, Correct posture for 4663. Need for advice of examining physician, 2016. Dye sublimation print on aluminum, 41 3/4 x 61 1/2 inches; 106 x 156.2 cm (overall). Courtesy the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York.

Visitor Information

Admission is free. For driving directions and parking information, please visit here.

Library Gallery hours:
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday: 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Thursday: 10 a.m. – 7 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday: 12 p.m. – 5 p.m.

Top image: Lewis Wickes Hine, Dangerous Business. Boy working at canning machine with open gearing. Many such machines and boys too. J. S. Farrand Packing Co., Baltimore, Maryland, 1909. Gelatin silver print, 5 x 7 in. The Photography Collections, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), P858.

Welcome Picnic at Patapsco State Park

Annual WISE Picnic — Save the date for Sunday, September 27, 1–5 PM. We'll be at Patapsco Valley State Park, Hilton area, Site 201. 

*Please RSVP and included the food/drinks/snacks/cutlery that you would like to bring to the picnic. 

The co-chairs of ADVANCE/WISE Phyllis Robinson and Theodosia Gougousi will be providing some traditonal BBQ food.

UMBC Affinity Groups are open for full participation by all individuals regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, or any other protected category under applicable federal law, state law, and the University’s nondiscrimination policy.

Join us at Retriever Soccer Park for Faculty & Staff Appreciation Day as the Retrievers host New Hampshire at 1 p.m. 

All UMBC Faculty & Staff can claim up to two free tickets to the contest! Just head to tickets.umbc.edu (or click the ticket link below), put in your myUMBC credentials, and claim your tickets under Faculty/Staff tickets!

Join us for Sundays with the Catholic Retrievers - part or all of the evening! All are welcome!!

4:00 pm | Adoration & Confession In Physics 101
5:15  pm | Mass In Physics 101
6:00 pm | Sunday Supper We will make a pilgrimage to the CWB Gathering Space for dinner!

The Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery presents Lewis Hine in Maryland, on display from August 24 through December 18. The exhibition will be accompanied by Lisa Oppenheim/Lewis Hine: Spine/Verso.

From 1908 to 1924, documentary photographer Lewis Hine (American, 1874–1940) traveled throughout the United States, using his camera to document child labor on behalf of the National Child Labor Committee (NCLC). He photographed children working in coal mines, cotton mills, farms, tenements, and city streets. The NCLC used Hine’s photographs and eyewitness reports to support its campaigns for labor regulation and reform. His images appeared in pamphlets, posters, traveling exhibitions, and lantern-slide presentations across the country. Ultimately, these searing photographs helped shape labor legislation in the United States and established a model for documentary photography.

In July 1909, Hine visited Maryland, photographing child workers at Bottomley berry farms in Anne Arundel County and at the J. S. Farrand Packing Company in Baltimore. Drawn from UMBC’s Photography Collections, this exhibition explores the places and people behind these photographs. A selection of Hine’s most iconic and enduring images situates his Maryland work within the broader context of his documentary project. The exhibition also examines how Hine’s photographs functioned as tools of visual persuasion, working in tandem with captions, pamphlets, slogans, and posters to shape public opinion — and ultimately legislation — regarding the changing role of children in the workforce and in American society.

This exhibition commemorates MD250 and the U.S. Semiquincentennial, exploring themes foundational to the nation’s history, including immigration and migration, the power of documentary photographs, and social justice.

Public Programs

Curatorial tour and opening reception
Thursday September 17, 5 p.m.

Panel Discussion: Food and Labor in Maryland
Thursday October 22, 6 p.m., followed by a reception
This event is co-organized with Department of American Studies and the Orser Center for Public Humanities at UMBC.

Closing reception
Thursday December 3, 6 p.m.

All public program are free and open to the public.

Lisa Oppenheim/Lewis Hine: Spine/Verso

Lewis Hine in Maryland is accompanied by an installation of two works from artist Lisa Oppenheim’s Spine series, in which she appropriates images by Lewis Hine from the Library of Congress. Enlarged to life size, the photographs depict the backs of adolescent textile workers whose bodies were curved and misshapen by their labor. Oppenheim has bifurcated each image along the vertical axis of the spine, emphasizing the physical impact of repetitive work on the body. Lisa Oppenheim/Lewis Hine: Spine/Verso places Oppenheim’s works in dialogue with a selection of photographs from UMBC’s Lewis Hine Collection, displayed with their versos — or backs — visible to viewers.

In 2023, with support from a National Endowment for the Humanities Preservation Assistance Grant, Special Collections staff undertook a major initiative to rehouse the Lewis Hine photographs and digitize their versos. The backs of the photographs bear captions, annotations, and inscriptions by Hine and others employed by the NCLC, testifying to their use in the organization’s publications and promotional campaigns. Together, these materials reveal the many forms of labor documented in Hine’s work and the ways that labor is imprinted upon — and remains legible within — the bodies of his subjects.

Lisa Oppenheim was born in 1975 in New York, New York. She received a BA in art and semiotics from Brown University in 1998 and an MFA in film and video from Bard College in 2001. She attended the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program for studio art in 2003. Oppenheim’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at MUDAM, The Contemporary Art Museum of Luxembourg (2025); Huis Marseille, Amsterdam (2024), Museum of Contemporary Art Denver (2017), and the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (2016). In 2014, Oppenheim was the recipient of the AIMIA|AGO Photography Prize from the Art Gallery of Ontario and the Shpilman International Photography Prize from the Israel Museum. Her work is held in the permanent collections of The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Museum of Modern Art, New York, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, among others. She lives and works in Brooklyn.

Image: Lisa Oppenheim, Correct posture for 4663. Need for advice of examining physician, 2016. Dye sublimation print on aluminum, 41 3/4 x 61 1/2 inches; 106 x 156.2 cm (overall). Courtesy the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York.

Visitor Information

Admission is free. For driving directions and parking information, please visit here.

Library Gallery hours:
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday: 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Thursday: 10 a.m. – 7 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday: 12 p.m. – 5 p.m.

Top image: Lewis Wickes Hine, Dangerous Business. Boy working at canning machine with open gearing. Many such machines and boys too. J. S. Farrand Packing Co., Baltimore, Maryland, 1909. Gelatin silver print, 5 x 7 in. The Photography Collections, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), P858.

Join the Meyerhoff Scholars Program on September 28, 2026 from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM in the University Center Ballroom, for the first of four events (three in-person, one virtual) welcoming representatives from Graduate and Professional School progams in STEM.

All students with an interest in pursuing an advanced degree in a STEM discipline are welcome!

For the September 28th event, the following programs are expected to participate:

Exhibitors seeing Life Science students:

University of Minnesota, Medical School
NIH Oxford Cambridge
Georgetown University
University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine
NIH/NIAMS
Duke University, School of Medicine
Ragon Institute
CUNY City College of New York
Howard University, School of Pharmacy

Exhibitors seeing Engineering & Tech students:

University of Maryland, Mechanical Engineering
University of Maryland, Applied Graduate Engineering
Hertz Foundation
Stanford University
George Mason University
Clemson University

Exhibitors seeing Both Life Sciences and Engineering & Tech students

Harvard University
Johns Hopkins University
Princeton University
Stony Brook University

TIP: If you don't have class from 11 AM - 12 noon, you might find shorter lines to speak with representatives than you would if you wait until Free Hour!

Sponsored by the Meyerhoff Scholars Program

Join us in the Mosaic for Counselor Chats next Monday at 11am! Come meet the program leader, Noemi Girón, a counselor from Retriever Integrated Health and the new wellbeing coordinator!  

The Mosaic Center and all events are open for full participation by all individuals regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, or any other protected category under applicable federal law, state law, and the University's nondiscrimination policy.

Join The Mosaic Center & Center for Religion, Spirituality, and Pluralism as we read and highlight Hispanic & Latine/x stories through children’s literature. This event is in celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month! Children's literature will be on display, centering the stories and experiences of the Hispanic & Latine/x community.

Monday, September 28th, 2026

11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m.

Commons Mainstreet

(in front of the Bookstore)

The Mosaic Center and Center for Religion, Spirituality, and Pluralism events are open for full participation by all individuals regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, or any other protected category under applicable federal law, state law, and the University's nondiscrimination policy.

Whether you are motivated by personal circumstances or just generally want to be more aware of UMBC's accessibility with October's Disability Pride month on the horizon - join us!  Navigating UMBC's campus-on-a-hill as a person with a disability brings out overt and sometimes more subtle features of its accessible design.  Join us to learn more (which can extend to being an effective Accessibility Ally!) and discuss: 
What are the features? We have many, including a Skywalk and several upgrades (lecture halls and elevators) and more on the way.

What are the bugs?  Learn more about how work with situations, whether it's contacting Work Control for a repair (410-455-2550), reporting an accessibility concern, or working with campus partners, such as Facilities Management  and DoIT to support inclusion.  Accessibility is everyone's responsibility.

We will gather in the Disability Access and Resources Conference Room MP 222 - learn the skywalk and tunnel connections within the Academic Core, review Adaptive Computing within the Library, and visit the reception area of Retriever Integrated Health - which supports both physical and mental health.  The tour is limited to a small group, and please know that mask use is VERY WELCOME.

UMBC is committed to creating an accessible and inclusive environment for all.  To request accommodation(s) or to inquire about event accessibility, please contact us via slazar@umbc.edu with "September 28 Accessibility Tour" in the subject line.

Can't make the day or time? More tours are planned.  Have a (small) group? Email us to set up a day and time that works for the occasion.  

Students who started in CBEE at UMBC in Spring, Summer, or Fall 2026 (YOU!) are invited to Lunch with the Chair. In this casual lunch meeting, you will meet Dr. Mark Marten, Chair of CBEE, along with other students and discuss classes, clubs, internships, and careers in chemical engineering. 

Pizza and a free CBEE t-shirt will be provided! 

RSVP is required. There are a limited number of spots available for each session. Register now to secure your preferred date by clicking HERE or by pasting this link into your browser: https://umbc.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0P1KZjZBaKMaCJU