By Matthew Fagan, UMBC; Leighton Reid, University of Missouri-St. Louis, and Margaret Buck Holland, UMBC Tropical forests globally are being lost at a rate of 61,000 square miles a year. And...
March 20, 2019
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Fan support has been invaluable throughout the season. Here, Retriever Nation gathers at the UMBC Event Center to cheer on the team during their America East championship bid. This season has...
March 16, 2019
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A delegation of UMBC Africana studies students recently joined teams from three continents for the 17th annual International Model African Union (MAU) Conference in Washington D.C., hosted by...
March 15, 2019
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Q: What’s the real story behind True Grit? Why was a Chesapeake Bay Retriever chosen as the school’s mascot? —Zozscha Bomhardt ’93 Campus Sam was UMBC’s very first live mascot. A contest during...
March 15, 2019
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Good luck, Retrievers! UMBC men’s basketball is officially heading to the America East championship final to defend our title. The Retrievers take on the Vermont Catamounts this Saturday, March...
March 15, 2019
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Frances Carter-Johnson, M.S. ’07, applied physics, and Ph.D. ’11, public policy, is used to getting questions about why she jumped from physics to public policy and explaining how, in her career...
March 14, 2019
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Maryland Historical Society to launch year-long display of quilts by Mimi Dietrich ’70, American studies When Mimi Dietrich sews, the corners of her mouth form a soft, confident smile as she...
March 14, 2019
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They never said it would be easy, but they did say it would be exciting. After battling through two rounds of fatiguing overtime, UMBC men’s basketball bested Hartford 90-85 to advance to the...
March 13, 2019
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According to U.S. News rankings released today, UMBC graduate programs are some of the best in the nation for 2020. The rankings are developed based on expert opinions and statistical indicators...
March 12, 2019
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UMBC men’s basketball team captain Joe Sherburne ‘18, financial economics, has nabbed top national honors as the 2018-19 Google Cloud Academic All-America® Team Member of the Year for Division I...
March 11, 2019
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