UMBC’s new Make Your Research Come Alive (MyRCA) program is helping faculty translate their scholarship into compelling stories that resonate across disciplines, sectors, and audiences. Launched...
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Pete Fitzpatrick ’96 completed his paramedic training in a speeding ambulance in West Baltimore over 30 years ago. It wasn’t the career he had envisioned, but after a friend gave him a textbook...
October 30, 2025
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Before 1960, the United States didn’t have a shock trauma center. That was until the construction of the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center at the University of Maryland, which marked a turning...
June 16, 2025
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Written by Ming Xie, assistant professor of emergency health management and public health systems, UMBC. Imagine a world in which a hurricane devastates the Gulf Coast, and the U.S. has no...
February 10, 2025
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Meet Matthew J. Levy ’00, M.S. ’08, emergency and disaster health services (EDHS), who has dedicated his career to Maryland communities. His expertise, as a physician of emergency medicine and...
November 19, 2024
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Written by Farah Nibbs, assistant professor of emergency and disaster health systems at UMBC Long before colonialism brought slavery to the Caribbean, the native islanders saw hurricanes and...
October 22, 2024
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In 1987, Paul Flinton, then a 23-year-old senior studying at UMBC, decided to make a short documentary focused on the tollbooth workers on the Francis Scott Key Bridge. The six-minute...
June 13, 2024
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Written by Farah Nibbs, assistant professor of emergency and disaster health systems at UMBC The Caribbean’s sandy beaches, clear turquoise water and vibrant coral reefs filled with an...
June 4, 2024
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Written by Farah Nibbs, assistant professor of emergency and disaster health systems at UMBC. In the popular imagination, the Caribbean is paradise, an exotic place to escape to. But behind...
May 14, 2024
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The increasing impact of global disasters on health systems has created a growing need for experts to help manage disaster risks and reduce their impact. In keeping with that demand, UMBC’s...
January 29, 2024
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