Education In Motion It’s a bright Saturday morning in mid-July, and the first floor of the Fine Arts Building is covered in plastic grocery bags, chicken wire, and paint buckets. A four-person...
UMBC Magazine answers alumni questions about True Grit, secret campus tunnels, football, Hillcrest and more… Even though UMBC is a fairly young university, it still has mysteries and legends and...
Mike Adelstein ’96, biochemistry and molecular biology, gets excited by the littlest things. As president and CEO of Potomac Photonics Inc., he leads a company that uses advanced manufacturing...
Like many UMBC alumnae, Kavita Krishnaswamy ’07, mathematics and computer science, feels driven to create a better world for the next generation. More than most alumnae, however, she has a...
What does it take to be the Miss Exotic World, Reigning Queen of Burlesque? And, what’s more, to make a career from an art form that you love? Ask Trixie Little (aka Keri Burneston ’99, visual and...
Alex Pyles ’09, English and media and communication studies, had loyal friends during his UMBC days. One night, when he returned to his UMBC dorm room after covering a Baltimore Orioles player’s...
UMBC President Freeman A. Hrabowski, III, takes your questions. “Was there ever a time when asking a question had a tremendous impact on your life or changed its course? — Monica Berron ’13,...
Even though UMBC isn’t quite 50 years old, our university has already developed intriguing rumors and legends. One of the most persistent of these legends – submitted by Tal Levitas ’08, political...
Anchors Aweigh The U.S. Navy has a proud history in Maryland. And with two new agreements concluded in April, UMBC deepened its educational and research ties with the Navy in significant...
Nimble Fingers Classical guitarist and UMBC affiliate artist Zane Forshee has lived a number of musical lives. First it was choosing an instrument. A well-meaning elementary school band teacher...