Meet Alan Aymie’94, theatre. After graduating from UMBC, Alan went on to work professionally in D.C., New York City, and Los Angeles. As a playwright, he has been produced across the country and...
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In her day job as a vice president at the advanced technology company Booz Allen Hamilton, Catherine Ordun, Ph.D. ’23, information systems, leads teams of engineers working on far-out AI tech. In...
May 30, 2025
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Meet Brandon Dudley ’04, English. Since graduation, Brandon has pursued his passion for writing and teaching—skills he honed while at UMBC. For almost 20 years, Brandon has been teaching English,...
May 30, 2025
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Meet Margaret Chisolm ’80, visual arts with a concentration in film. After graduating from UMBC, Margaret was accepted into graduate school at NYU in cinema studies, but decided to go to medical...
May 30, 2025
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One way to describe Dave Anguish’s journey with UMBC is as a trip around the world and back again. Anguish came to UMBC in 2008 to study political science as well as modern languages, linguistics,...
May 30, 2025
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Tanya Olson, associate professor of English, UMBC. On March 15, 1974, the Grand Ole Opry country music radio show closed its run at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee, with...
May 30, 2025
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The Retriever Weekly announces the new dorms opening in 1970. (UMBC Special Collections) “Hey UMBC, and welcome to my crib!” That’s probably not verbatim what students said when UMBC’s first...
May 30, 2025
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On a pleasant Saturday in early May, nearly 30 teams gathered in Baltimore to pedal elaborate all-terrain sculptures 15 miles through a course featuring pavement, water, sand, and mud. The 25th...
May 29, 2025
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On Wednesday, May 21, more than 300 high school students from the high school Baltimore Polytechnic Institute (Poly), family members, teachers, and faculty and staff from area universities filled...
May 29, 2025
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Jianyu “Kevin” Zheng, a postdoctoral fellow with the Goddard Earth Sciences Technology and Research (GESTAR) Center II, whose work focuses on remote sensing for dust aerosols, is the recipient of...
May 28, 2025
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