Researching a Cure for Alzheimer’s In UMBC’s recently renovated Chemistry Building, Jesse Karr, a chemistry and biochemistry Ph.D. student, is standing over a brand-new electron...
Inside the New York Times Last semester, UMBC Retriever Weekly editors were invited to go “Inside the New York Times” to learn about day-to-day operations and to develop their journalistic...
Ph.D. Students Analyze Baltimore’s Inner Suburbs “In scholarly literature, there is a lot of interest about inner suburbs, those older suburban communities near the central city. We found...
A Global Action Plan for Women in IT For the first time, technology leaders from 22 countries and six continents will gather to explore concrete ways in which access by girls and women...
Celebrating the Class of 2005 This year, UMBC will award degrees to 1200 undergraduates and more than 200 graduate students in the arts and sciences, engineering and social work....
Creating Interactive Memories Associate Professor of Visual Arts Lisa Moren was recently recognized for her new media art—including installations, videos, books and interactive...
Shared Values Set in Stone UMBC honors Walter Sondheim, Jr., a pivotal leader of school desegregation and economic revitalization in Baltimore, for his achievements in community...
Writing a Biography of “No Place” Assistant Professor of History Kate Brown recently received two significant awards for A Biography of No Place: From Ethnic Borderland to Soviet...
Supporting Undergraduate Research UMBC’s emphasis on undergraduate research is one of its most distinctive strengths. Opportunities to conduct independent research—both on and off...
Conducting Research for the Iraqi Special Tribunal In his last semester of law school, Ian Ralby, modern languages and linguistics/M.A. intercultural communication ’02, is taking an...