"This experienced team of diverse senior leaders has an opportunity to create a structural answer to elevate diverse leaders from the arts and humanities,” says project PI Kimberly Moffitt, UMBC's...
Each graduating student’s path looks different. For many Retrievers, UMBC offers an opportunity to develop not just knowledge and skills, but also self-awareness that enables them to pursue...
“W.E.B. Du Bois’s foundational work on black consciousness, citizenship, and racial inequality is as relevant today as it was in 1903,” shares Maleda Belilgne, assistant professor of Africana...
“UMBC is giving me the ultimate opportunity of time and support to think, write, and teach about what matters to me the most—conducting research about my community,” says Fernando Tormos-Aponte,...
During the summer months, hundreds of UMBC students immersed themselves in high-value internships at companies, nonprofits, and government agencies. There, they learned about new fields, developed...
Through these programs, says Sec. Carol Beatty, Maryland recognizes the imperative to "consistently attract the best and brightest in order to best serve the needs of our state's people."
UMBC’s newest Postdoctoral Fellows for Faculty Diversity will soon begin a two-year experience focused on growing their research and refining their teaching skills through professional development...
This highly competitive award is part of $16.3 million in funding for humanities research. Through his year-long fellowship, Schwab will develop a new book manuscript examining the history of...
At 19th annual symposium, 331 students learned from workshops and received insightful feedback on their research projects from cricket behavior to breast cancer to biodegradable polymers.
“The whole experience at UMBC was gratifying,” said Simmona Simmons ‘72, American studies, who began working in UMBC's library in 1966. “As UMBC grew, I grew with UMBC.”