“It is in times of great conflict and great challenge that higher education’s purpose is most revealed.” UMBC president Valerie Sheares Ashby addressed the crowd at the 2023 winter...
December 21, 2023
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Earlier this month, UMBC joined dozens of other founding institutions at the kick-off meeting of a newly launched initiative to ensure sustained resources and opportunities in tech fields for...
December 21, 2023
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Earlier this month, UMBC joined dozens of other founding institutions at the kick-off meeting of a newly launched initiative to ensure sustained resources and opportunities in tech fields for...
December 21, 2023
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12:16 PM
Many recent artificial intelligence (AI) breakthroughs—such as smartphone tools that recognize your friends’ faces or understand your spoken commands—are based on a computing approach that was...
December 21, 2023
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Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men other than skin cancer, with more than 288,000 new cases diagnosed every year, according to the American Cancer Society. The disease’s fatality...
December 21, 2023
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UMBC’s Science Learning Collaboratory buzzes with activity as small groups of students use pipettes to suck brine shrimp out of glass vials, squirt them into petri dishes set over graph paper,...
December 20, 2023
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Dear UMBC Community, With winter Commencements fast approaching, I wanted to share some updates with you before the break and express my sincere thanks to the entire UMBC community. This...
December 19, 2023
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The benches in Beuys Sculpture Garden in the south part of campus are fitted with special shelves for the journals. (Marlayna Demond ’11/UMBC). It makes sense that in a space on campus...
December 18, 2023
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At UMBC, we’re still young enough to be making traditions. Meet Thomas Locastro, biological sciences alumnus, who knew from day one on campus in 2003 that he wanted to leave behind a lasting...
December 18, 2023
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Office closed / Travel Signatures / Tax season coming up
Dear Exchange Scholars, Have a great winter break! The OISS office will be closed December 22, 2023 - January 1, 2024. We will reopen on Tuesday, January 2, 2024. Have a wonderful winter break,...
December 18, 2023
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