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English alumna Loris Nebbia ’95 has published her first novel, Solomon’s Puzzle. A modern-day take of an age-old Bible tale, an excerpt of the 700-page book won the Maryland Writers’ Association’s...
March 15, 2011
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9:32 AM
“Ace of Cakes” star baker Jeffrey “Duff” Goldman ’97, philosophy, is expanding his brand to include a line of cake-inspired Blue Bunny ice cream flavors, the Baltimore Sun reports. Read the full...
March 15, 2011
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8:46 AM
Benyam Kinde ’10, biological sciences, is one of 10 students in 2011 to be named a Gilliam Fellow by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). Kinde, who was UMBC’s 2010 valedictorian and a...
March 14, 2011
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11:16 AM
When Mary Wyatt ’74, American studies, was a little girl, she loved to retreat to a secret space in her backyard. There, in a patch of grass surrounded by a grove of apple trees, she spent lazy...
February 24, 2011
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11:02 AM
Back in 2001, Kaliope Parthemos ’93, psychology, got some career advice that has resonated with her over a decade of public service. Parthemos was clerking for Baltimore Judge John C. Themelis...
February 24, 2011
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11:01 AM
In an office on Chase Street in Baltimore, a fiery one-woman pep rally for a young African-American professional is under way. Diane Bell-McKoy ’73, sociology, is holding forth on the necessity...
February 24, 2011
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10:53 AM
Zombies have been multiplying rapidly in our popular consciousness in recent years. Whether it’s the high drama of AMC’s new television hit The Walking Dead or the high comedy of Seth...
February 24, 2011
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10:51 AM
A well-known proverb appears on a wall near the entrance to the Columbus Center on Baltimore’s Inner Harbor: Give a man a fish, he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish and he eats for a lifetime....
February 24, 2011
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10:45 AM
The very thought of a website devoted to Sherman’s March may inspire mild dread. After all, the path of destruction that General William Tecumseh Sherman and the Union Army blazed across Georgia...
February 24, 2011
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10:43 AM
Like any campus, UMBC is a blur of movement when school is in session. But when that motion is concentrated, studied, refined or performed – it can become truly special. UMBC’s Dance Department...
February 24, 2011
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10:41 AM