Congratulations to the UMBC chess team for placing third in the 2014 Pan American Intercollegiate Team Chess Championship and qualifying to advance to the President’s Cup on April 5-6 at the New York Athletic Club.  This tournament, known as the Final Four of College Chess, will determine the 2015 U.S. college team chess champion.

The UMBC team in this year’s Pan-Am consists of GM Niclas Huschenbeth, IM Levan Bregadze, IM Tanguy Ringoir, GM Akshayraj Kore and WGM Nazi Paikidze (alternate).

The final standings were: Webster University A (5.5 points), the University of Texas at Dallas A (5 points), the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (5 points) and Texas Tech University A (4.5 points). UTD placed ahead of UMBC by virtue of winning their match.

You can view the final results on the tournament website and review selected games on Monroi.

reposted from the CSEE Web site.

News Coverage

UMBC chess team advances to national championship (Baltimore Sun)

Competitive UMBC Team Excels In Intellect (CBS Baltimore)

The Women's Center is excited to announce that the Returning Women Students Scholarships Application for 2015-2016 is now available. The deadline for submission is Friday, April 3, 2015.

This common application enables eligible students to apply for more than one of the Returning Women Students Scholarships using the same application. The three available scholarships are:

• Charlotte W. Newcombe Scholarship & The UMBC Scholarship for Mature Students
• AEGON Scholarship
• The Richard & Roselyn Bryson Neville Memorial Fund for Returning Women Scholarship

All undergraduate students over the age of 25 and with at least 60 credits may be eligible. You must be completing your first undergraduate degree. 

Each scholarship has additional eligibility requirements which can be found on the common application instructions. 

The application is attached to this announcement. Please be sure to read over the eligibility requirements before applying. 

If you have any questions concerning the application process or the scholars program requirements, please contact Jess at womens.center@umbc.edu. 

We will also be hosting 2 informational sessions related to the application process and scholars program requirements. The information sessions will be held in the Women's Center on Wednesday, February 25th from 12-1pm or Wednesday, March 26th from 4-4:45pm.

Applications are due Friday, April 3rd at 4pm

Hope you all had a great holiday and took a little time to relax.

For those enrolled in the winter session, welcome back and good luck.

Farewell...for now

So I am excited and a little sad to say that my time at UMBC, as an undergraduate student, has come to an end. It has been a great experience and I can’t begin to thank everyone who has helped to make it so. entreSpace has become second homes on campus for me. Gib Mason and Vivian Armor have been like family to me and I can't begin to say 'Thank You' enough. But, most of all, the relationships I have built with many of you (student entrepreneurs) has been fantastic and I am so excited to see the businesses, products, services, you create and the social issues you solve. I live in Baltimore, will still be on campus occasionally (working on Banana Bones), and am more than happy to go grab coffee with any of you to chat business.

Moving Forward

It is now my honor to introduce you all to Amanda Mancuso, the newest Alex. Brown Center for Entrepreneurship marketing intern. Amanda is working on her degree in human centered computing and will be transitioning into her Master’s Program in the summer. She is a very active member of Delta Phi Epsilon and has been working as a social media marketing guru for a local energy company for over a year.

I have no doubt that she is going to do amazing things with this role and take it to levels I wasn’t able to.

Good luck with the upcoming semester and thanks for all the great memories. Many more to come!

Feel free to throw some comments in our my.UMBC group to welcome Amanda!

~josh massey

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