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The Retrievers are America East champions again, with UMBC’s men’s lacrosse reclaiming the title for the first time in a decade. Attackman Trevor Patschorke ‘21 scored a game-winning goal for UMBC with just 66 seconds left on the clock. Now, the team is heading to the opening round of the NCAA Men’s Lacrosse Championship, facing MAAC Champion Marist on May 8, 7 p.m., at Tenney Stadium in Poughkeepsie, New York.

“I am really proud of our guys’ resiliency all season,” said head coach Ryan Moran, after the 13-12 victory over Vermont. “I was extremely happy to see them rewarded on the biggest stage.”

Patschorke was named America East Tournament Most Valuable Player. He and teammates Ryan Frawley ‘20, biological sciences, and Brett MCintyre ‘20, mechanical engineering, each scored four goals during the championship game, and Steven Zichelli ‘21, media and communication studies, scored one.

Billy Nolan ‘19, political science, and Gunnar Schimoler ‘19, economics, joined Frawley and Patschorke on the All-Tournament Team.

Thinking back to that final goal, with the shot clock running down, Patschorke says, “When I had the ball in my stick, I knew my looks from practice and I just executed.” He slipped a sharp-angled shot past Vermont’s goalkeeper to claim UMBC’s victory.

After the win, the team celebrated at an NCAA Selection Show watch party on campus, May 5.

This is the team’s fourth America East title (2006, 2008, 2009, 2019). Wednesday’s game will mark UMBC’s seventh appearance in the NCAA Men’s Lacrosse Championship.

Learn more about the America East Championship victory and upcoming NCAA opening round game against Marist on umbcretrievers.com.

Featured imaged: Trevor Patschorke plays for UMBC in the America East Men’s Lacrosse Championship game. Photos courtesy of Jim Harrison.

When Angel Badewole ’19, chemical engineering, began as a first-year student at UMBC, it was her first time living apart from her family in Lagos, Nigeria. Early on, she knew her success attending college in another country would depend on finding multiple places to plug in and connect. She would need to find or build a home away from home make it through her four years abroad.

Just looking at Badewole’s résumé tells a story of connection. She lists community-building and academic excellence as her two intentional goals. She built a self-made family through Residential Life—“It pulls together people that are so different”—and with the faith-based Bethel Campus Fellowship—“It’s a great place, it has the best connections.” Badewole also discovered a distant aunt who lives in Frederick, who would quickly become her “Maryland mom.”

Badewole’s story resonates with many international students at UMBC. Maybe they heard about the institution through friends of the family, a lucky Google search, or UMBC’s reputation in their field of study. Then, often without having visited the United States, they arrived on campus, determined to make the most of their time here, both in the classroom and through connecting with people.

For doctoral students, that time is often much longer than four years.

Finding support in a time of transition

Amrita Anam, Ph.D. ’19, information systems, began her seven years at UMBC in a spring semester, meaning she moved from Bangladesh to Baltimore in January. “What is happening? Is this how I die?” laughs Anam, remembering the chilly weather in those first few weeks of adjustment.

She found her welcome in the information systems department, with professor and chair Aryya Gangopadhyay. “When I spoke to Dr. Gangopadhyay, I really liked how warm he was. There was no way I could do this without the support I got from my department.”

Sitting now on the patio in front of the campus Starbucks, Anam explains the research interests that drew her to UMBC. “I use social media data, Twitter particularly, and I use it for disaster response, but the interesting thing is that instead of using text analytics, I use signal processing.”

With her background in electrical engineering, Anam wanted to attend a school on the East Coast to be near her sister in New York. She also knew she’d need funding to see her through a Ph.D. program. She found that through her assistantship at UMBC.

“If you come here directly to a very tough Ph.D. research scenario, it takes some time to even understand what’s happening,” says the cheerful data scientist. She appreciated that her department understood how to support her during her first months at UMBC. “School is not the same in my country, people are not the same, research is not the same, so I feel like those are the things that I needed some time to cope with,” says Anam.

While she was finding her feet in the information systems world, Anam connected with the Indian Student Association, as there was no formal group yet for Bangladeshi students. As the number of Bangladeshi students grew, she co-founded the Bangladesh Student Association to celebrate Bengali holidays, serving up delicious street food and showcasing regional dance styles.

Anam’s time at UMBC has been fruitful academically and socially, but a personal tragedy recently shook her to her core. Both her parents had always encouraged her to continue pursuing her education, pushing her out of her comfort zone when she needed it. But, as she came close to finishing her Ph.D., her father—“a film director, very artsy, very nerdy”—passed away suddenly.

Anam says she felt completely supported by her department during this upheaval and, with their encouragement, was able to finish the degree she had been working so hard to earn for so many years. On a warm spring morning, the day after defending her dissertation, Anam shared, “They’ve seen me grow in all these years, so they were also very proud and happy.” She is now looking forward to her upcoming position at Amazon as a business intelligence engineer.

Keep knocking on doors. It works.

Tobi Odunsi, M.S.’19, cybersecurity, first found himself in Maryland in 2017 for the wedding of his godbrother. He wasn’t originally looking at graduate schools in the United States, but decided to visit the UMBC campus since he was in the area.

Interested in cybersecurity, Odunsi met with Toby Gouker, a faculty member in technical management, on a warm summer day. The Tobi-Toby meeting went well. “They didn’t have to do much convincing,” says Odunsi. After digging through the UMBC website, he already knew it would be a good fit. “As soon as I stepped into the school, I knew, ‘I like this.’”

Like Badewole, Odunsi is from Lagos, Nigeria, and also found comfort with a faith community near campus, attending Christ Apostolic Church and the International Friends Club. Those connections helped ease his transition, but another key component to his comfort was staying with his godmother until he found a job and a community of friends on campus. “She was my home away from home,” he says.

Before coming to UMBC, Odunsi already had a strong interest in The Internet of Things—everyday devices that connect online with users and each other, like the smartphone app that pings your coffee maker to start brewing. Odunsi knew that for his graduate degree, he needed to find an unique niche in the broad field. He eventually decided on software defined networking, an approach to cloud computing.

On campus, Odunsi was ready to hit the ground running, and to knock on a lot of doors to find the right opportunity. “It’s better to be prepared for an opportunity when you don’t have it, than for you to have an opportunity and not be prepared for it,” he says.

Before long, Odunsi knocked on just the right door. When he reached Damian Doyle, assistant vice president of enterprise infrastructure in UMBC’s Division of Information Technology and told him about his research interests, Doyle responded, “Wow, we’ve been looking for someone to actually do something like that,” describes Odunsi. “So it’s like, the stars were aligned. And now UMBC is the first school in the University System of Maryland to implement that type of technology in their data center.”

“Damian is a very great guy—his door is always open. There’s no time I’ve tried to schedule a meeting with him that he turned me down. He’s mentored me not just on work, but also given me guidance on how to proceed with my career, family, and likes of that sort,” says Odunsi, who will begin his position as a technology development program associate at Geico after graduation in May.

When Odunsi’s mother visited campus and met Dr. Hrabowski, he told her that her son had “a good head on his shoulders,” and she began to tear up. “She was so appreciative of how far I’ve come and the support they’ve given me.”

The office that makes it possible

Odunsi attributes the ease of his academic experience to the team in UMBC’s office of International Education Services (IES). “For international students…you need to always make sure you’re in the right standing,” says Odunsi. “I don’t know if it’s just me, but whenever I go there, it feels like home.”

Anam agrees wholeheartedly. “Studies are stressful,” she says, but thanks to IES, “I never have to stress about anything else.” She’s grateful to Michelle Massey, IES associate director, and other IES staff for their dedication to making sure international students can focus on their academic programs rather than spending all of their time worrying about visa paperwork.

Haixu Leng, Ph.D. ’19, physics, remembers that Massey was one of the first people to greet him on campus, and to welcome him to the United States. Whenever he thinks about UMBC, he thinks about the helpful and patient team at IES.

A Google search can change everything

Leng owes his time at UMBC to an internet search for quantum optics programs. He was then drawn to UMBC from China because “the UMBC physics department is a relatively small department, in which you can get the attention that you may not get in a very large department. I really liked it.”

As Leng settled into the physics department, he found a place in associate professor Matthew Pelton’s lab. There, using a home-built single-particle microscope, he studied the interaction between light and materials at the nanometer scale.

Over his five years on campus, “the physics building became my favorite place,” says Leng. “It almost felt like home to me.” His other favorite place on campus is the library. There, he formed a friendship with Henan Zhao, a current Ph.D. student in computer science, over long study sessions. They have since married.

Opening UMBC to the world

International students who make their home at UMBC find many ways to continue celebrating their own cultures while taking part in the wealth of communities campus has to offer. It’s a two-way exchange that Badewole appreciates.

“There are so many different people here,” says Badewole, “and that’s good in two ways. One, you will find people who are like you in many different respects: a community in your academic area, a community in whatever you believe in, a community in your interests; and two, you get to find a lot of people who are different than you and who you can then learn from.”

Odunsi sees the campus’s welcoming atmosphere as a trickle-down effect from the values of UMBC leadership. “There’s this community of international students at UMBC—it keeps growing—and Dr. Hrabowski has been monumental in that effort to bring international students here,” says Odunsi. “He’s opening the school to not just a few set of people, but to the world at large.”

Featured imaged: Angel Badewole, right, with friends from Bethel Christian Fellowship. Photo courtesy of Angel Badewole.

This article was written by Randianne Leyshon ’09, assistant editor of UMBC Magazine.

UMBC made history again yesterday as alumna Adrienne A. Jones ‘76, psychology, was unanimously voted Maryland’s next Speaker of the House. Her swearing in was a historic moment for the state. Jones – who has served as Speaker Pro Tem since 2003, and a delegate since 1997 – is both the first African American and the first woman to serve in this role.

The vote followed an intense day of caucusing during which the two Democratic front-runners wound up stepping back to endorse Jones, reported the Baltimore Sun. With the final vote for Jones – 139-0 – and a standing ovation from all, the room burst into applause.

“I think the last time I felt this ecstatic was when UMBC beat UVA,” said Del. Mark Chang ‘99, psychology, who jumped from his seat to second the motion to close nominations before the final vote was made. “It couldn’t have happened to a better person. I’ve always had such respect for Adrienne, especially because she’s a UMBC alum, and a fellow psychology major.”

Jones stepped in to lead the General Assembly several times during this year’s session while former Speaker Michael Busch was in the hospital. When he passed away on April 7, just a day before the end of the legislative session, Jones stepped in yet again to close the session on a somber note. The vote yesterday was conducted in a special session.

“Delegate Jones exemplifies what we want to see in elected office today – leaders who are working hard for the good of all people,” said UMBC President Freeman Hrabowski. “Like so many of our alumni, she is making a real difference in people’s lives. We are so proud of her.”

Fellow UMBC legislators and other members of the Retriever community quickly took to social media to share their excitement about the vote.

So very proud of my fellow @umbc alum @DelegateAJones elected as Maryland’s Speaker Of The House Of Delegates! pic.twitter.com/vEYImNcncx

— Mark Chang (@marksoochang) May 1, 2019

.@DelegateAJones poses for unity photo after unanimous vote pic.twitter.com/1VU1QMpyMC

— Luke Broadwater (@lukebroadwater) May 1, 2019

“As a UMBC alum, I am incredibly proud today that one of our own has ascended to the Speaker’s position,” said Del. Haven Shoemaker ‘87, political science. “Speaker Jones is a tireless worker, extremely dedicated, and will undoubtedly leave an indelible mark on the State of Maryland. I wish her nothing but the best.”

“This is a big deal,” said Del. Charles Sydnor, III, ’00, policy sciences, noting the historic overtones of Jones’ accomplishment. “I’m extremely excited. She’s the right person for the job.”

Todd Eberly, Ph.D. ’06, public policy, an associate professor at St. Mary’s College, tweeted: “Last week Adrienne Jones was willing to walk away from the Speaker race and now she is the Speaker. A person willing to give up power is precisely the type of person we should entrust with power.”

Jones, who in 2003 was named a UMBC Outstanding Alumna of the Year, discussed the importance of public service at an alumni reception in Annapolis last year.

“Having UMBC alumni in the Senate, House of Delegates, the Governor’s Office, state agencies, advocacy groups and nonprofits is a great asset,” she said.

“As public service professionals, we share the same camaraderie and ‘True Grit’ as we did as UMBC students.”

See additional coverage in The Baltimore Sun.

Featured image: Adrienne A. Jones celebrates UMBC’s 50th anniversary. All photos by Marlayna Demond ‘11 for UMBC.

In the corner of the Performing Arts building, a haunting melody rises up in goosebump-inducing refrain and is suddenly interrupted by a quick stamping foot and an insistent correction. In a gruff but kind voice, the director of UMBC’s Russian Chorus rectifies the soloist’s rolled “r”s and the group immediately begins singing again, at ease with the complex syllables of the Russian ballad, even though some of them speak no Russian outside of this hour long course twice a week.

The chorus is one of only three like it in the whole country. Yale and the University of Chicago also boast ensembles, making UMBC’s group something of an anomaly. At the heart of the choir is the director: Slava Liberman, a formally trained choral director from Belarus who moved to Maryland with his family in the early 1990s. His passion for the folk traditions in Russian classical music has not faded in the two decades directing at UMBC; and his current group of students and alumni performers are enthralled with the world of Russian music to which Liberman holds the key.

“I love working with Slava,” says junior Felicia Jones, modern languages and linguistics. “He is the first chorus instructor I have ever had that is so passionate about what he does. He gives me a clear idea of how he wants things sung, and he always will make time for me if I feel that I need extra time to work on a certain song.”

Vira Zhdanovych, the Russian Club advisor, instructor of Russian, and herself an accomplished mezzo-soprano, sees the chorus as a compelling aspect of the Russian community on campus. Often, she says, her students need to be encouraged with a little extra credit to begin participating, but once Liberman connects them to these historic songs, they keep coming back—even as alumni.

“The chorus was an amazing way to learn a language through experience,” says Logan Dean ’17, political science and social work, who joined the group in 2017 while in Russian 101. Currently a financial aid counselor at UMBC, Dean says that Liberman is the reason he spends his lunch breaks returning to sing songs like Katyusha, The Long Road, and Moscow Nights.

“There is something about seeing someone so passionate about something, it just really motivates you,” Dean says. “He regularly tells us to stop laughing at him when he’s stomping his feet and shouting in Russian, but all his actions happen because he has a vision for us and for the music and it gives him this intense energy about directing.”

Liberman says he plans on continuing the Russian Chorus until he’s no longer able or allowed. He turns to a poetic Russian phrase to describe its effect on the students and campus alike: “Луч света в тёмном царстве,” which translates as “the brightest light in the darkest kingdom.” Watching his American students overcome linguistic barriers, learn to sing Russian vowels, or fall in love with folk music of the 20th century is a moment of watching that light shine. “For me, it’s a big privilege to work with these American students. Each time when I hear they are doing better, it’s like a victory.”

“I think everyone should find their version of Russian Chorus,” says Dean. “Something weird and maybe unusual that they enjoy. It makes life more interesting and opens doors to new things that you may have never experienced otherwise.”

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Header image: Sheets of Russian choral music with student notes. Photo courtesy of Randianne Leyshon ’09.

It’s a cozy space decorated in lively yellows, blues, and reds, a perfect representation of the dynamic individuals present and the discussions taking place here, coloring the UMBC campus. The Mosaic: Center for Culture and Diversity makes its home on the second floor of The Commons and has been an influential presence, shaping conversations at UMBC for the past 15 years.

Immediately behind the front desk sits a roundtable area—an inviting corner for group meetings, events, or simply a spot where students can come chat and unwind in between classes. On this day, eight of the center’s interns sit in its space, offering up generous amounts of finger-snaps and support as they each recall what initially drew them to The Mosaic. While each intern differs in graduation year, major, and internship specialization, the thread that binds them together is the warmth and immediate acceptance they felt when first introduced to Mosaic and its community.

For Sylvia C. Anokam ’20, gender, women’s, and sexuality studies, and Mosaic Intern for Black and Africana Student Engagement, the center is integral in helping to develop her sense of purpose both in and outside of UMBC. “As I started working at Mosaic, I started thinking about all the various identities that I hold,” said Anokam. “I know I’m a woman and I’m a black woman, but I never thought of my immigrant identity and how it played a role in my life.” This past February, Anokam participated as a panelist in the Mosaic’s Fifteenth Anniversary Celebration where she shared her journey with other students, faculty, alumni, and guests.

In its 15 years, The Mosaic has grown to include Associate Director for Student Diversity and Inclusion Lisa Gray; two Coordinators for Student Diversity and Inclusion, Carlos Turcios ’15, psychology and sociology, M.A. ’17, applied sociology, and Erin Waddles; 10 student staff; and two additional sister spaces—Campus Life’s Interfaith Student Lounge and Campus Life’s Queer Center.

Turcios, who originally joined The Mosaic as the first Intern for Hispanic and Latinx Student Community Outreach, believes UMBC’s practice of inclusive excellence, as well as the sociopolitical challenges present in our country over the past few years, have helped to bring focus to the crucial social justice and intersectional based work being done by The Mosaic. As students and their families affected by travel bans and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) deal with the ongoing policy changes, The Mosaic has maintained an inclusive and supportive environment for anyone looking for a place to speak freely. And while The Mosaic stresses that the staff are not counselors, they believe in fully supporting their student community however they can.

Among the many educational, outreach, and training programs developed by The Mosaic, there is What’s the T? A Social Justice Dialogue Series and How to Be a Better Ally: Workshop Series, both of which use Brave Space Guidelines as their foundation. Originally created by The Women’s Center, The Mosaic’s key partner, Brave Space Guidelines assist in fostering meaningful, social justice-based conversations that promote accountability and learning from a place of positive intent. “[Brave spaces] allow us to address things that might seem small to the folks who are saying it but have a larger impact if they keep using those terms,” said Turcios.

Going forward in the next 15 years, Waddles, Turcios, and Gray hope that the growing recognition The Mosaic is receiving will result in increased staffing and resources, all of which will aid them in providing larger spaces and innovative programming for their students and community.

“My hope is that we work our way out of a job.” says Gray, who has led The Mosaic’s mission for more than 12 years. “There will not need to be a need for these spaces anymore, because the entire campus will be The Mosaic.”

As the interns wrap up their group discussion for the day and head to other obligations, Hispanic, Latinx, and Indigenous Student Engagement Intern Karina Aquiahuatl Villagran ’19, individualized studies, offers one final sentiment, perfectly summing up the empowered collective voice of The Mosaic community: “I love The Mosaic because I can have real conversations here. Society has normalized keeping the difficult conversations to ourselves, but Mosaic is a part of society and it can branch out from this space to whatever we do in the future.”

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Header photo: The Mosaic staff and students gather to talk regularly. All photos courtesy of Marlayna Demond ’11.

By Mariano R. Sto. Domingo, Department of Psychology Faculty, UMBC, and Viji Sathy, Teaching Associate Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Jerome Adams is the 20th surgeon general of the United States and former Indiana state health commissioner.

Angelique Johnson is a co-founder and CEO of MEMStim, a company that produces implantable electronics to treat brain disorders.

Isaac Kinde is the chief scientific officer at PapGene, Inc., a company that sells molecular tests meant to detect cancer early. He is also a recognized national expert in molecular cancer diagnostics.

All three graduated from the Meyerhoff Scholars Program. The program was co-founded by Robert Meyerhoff, a Baltimore philanthropist, and University of Maryland, Baltimore County President Freeman Hrabowski in 1988 with the goal of increasing representation of minority students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics programs at UMBC.

Since then, about 1,500 students have gone through the program and pursued careers that range from public health practitioners to entrepreneurs. Many alumni are professors.

What makes the Meyerhoff work?

The Meyerhoff Scholars program has been called the “gold standard” for providing a path into STEM research for African Americans, Hispanics, and economically disadvantaged white students who are underrepresented in the field. It has also been credited with changing the culture of the campus at UMBC.

Based on the success of the Meyerhoff program at UMBC, we wondered if the program could be successfully replicated on other college campuses, particularly in light of the fact that earlier attempts at other schools did not succeed.

In a study published April 26, we conclude that the answer is: yes. We conducted the study with funding and advisory support from Howard Hughes Medical Institute. We are part of the inter-institutional research team that has tracked the academic performance of the students on our campuses.

Before we get into the details of our findings, first here’s a bit of background on the Meyerhoff Scholars Program and how it works.

Practice for success

For the past 30 years, minority students who are part of the program are coached to sit in the front rows of their classes, raise their hands to ask challenging questions, and stay after class to engage their professors. These cohorts of students attend a summer bridge program before their first semester in college, live on the same residence hall and form study groups. They also volunteer in communities, work in laboratories on campus during the semesters and off-campus during summers throughout college.

Faculty and campus leaders serve as champions for their success until and after they complete bachelor’s degrees.

The cohort-based program recruits high achieving high school students to work closely and excel together. Critics have said that practice of picking top students is “elitist.” But Hrabowski, the co-founder, has defended the program as being responsive to students who want to earn an advanced STEM degree.

The program includes 13 key program components designed to provide academic, social and professional support to equip students for STEM graduate programs. These components include advising and counseling, tutoring, quality research experience and mentorship.

Payoffs and benefits

Evidence shows that African American Meyerhoff scholars earn higher grades in STEM majors – 0.25 points higher on a 4.0 GPA, to be exact. Evidence also shows that African American Meyerhoff scholars are twice as likely to graduate from STEM majors than similar students. They are also 7.5 times more likely to pursue and complete advanced degrees versus those who decline the scholarship.

UMBC is now the second top producer of black STEM-Ph.D. degree recipients, second only to Howard University, and the number one producer of MD-Ph.D. degree recipients.

Brent Staples, an editorial writer for The New York Times, has noted that the Meyerhoff Scholars Program is “so well known that the university no longer needs to recruit for it.”

“Critics have sometimes accused the Meyerhoff program of cherry-picking bright students who would perform spectacularly well wherever they went to school,” Staples wrote. “But the numbers suggest that the school’s instructional strategy makes a real difference.”

Can the program be replicated?

“Some critics have argued that although the Meyerhoff program is successful at UMBC, its success could not be replicated elsewhere,” Freeman Hrabowski acknowledged in an article he co-authored for Issues in Science and Technology. “They maintain that UMBC is a unique place with a president who is African American and a program champion in a way that cannot be copied. They also claim the program is expensive.”

To put the issue of whether the program could be copied to the test, we looked at two different programs that were patterned after the Meyerhoff Scholars program – the Millennium Scholars program at Penn State University, which began in 2012, and the Chancellor’s Science Scholars program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, which began in 2013.

Prior to these programs, UNC and Penn State each had between 100 and 200 graduates who went on to earn STEM doctoral degrees but only four to six of the students were African American students. While it’s too early to tell what the outcome will be, preliminary indicators suggest that both programs are on target to surpass early Meyerhoff rates of entry into STEM Ph.D. and MD-Ph.D. programs. For instance, the rate for the first group of Meyerhoff scholars back in 1993 was 10%, whereas the rates for UNC and Penn State in 2017 were 21% and 50%, respectively. The current Meyerhoff rate of entry into STEM Ph.D. and MD-Ph.D. programs is 48% immediately after graduation.

Some may think that the programs got these results by cherry-picking exceptionally talented students. To address this question, we looked at students who were in the programs and compared them to students of similar demographics and academic strength and interest who were not in the programs. The study involved nearly 1,500 students across the three campuses.

We found that students who are part of the programs stayed in their STEM majors at a rate of between 91% and 94%, versus 78% to 80% for non-participants. And program participants earned GPAs of between 3.48 to 3.59, versus 3.15 to 3.22 for those who were not in the program.

Adopting the model

What our findings show is that in order for a Meyerhoff-type program to work, the program can’t be implemented in just any old way. Success requires a full commitment to the entire Meyerhoff model. It also takes training program staff and faculty on how to follow the model fully. Unlike earlier attempts at other schools, UNC and Penn State implemented all aspects of the program.

It also takes money. For instance, the programs at Penn State and North Carolina run off endowments of US$7.1 million and $15.5 million, respectively. Both endowments were created by dedicated fundraising campaigns, much of it going to scholarships to cover the cost of tuition, research and travel experiences for the students.

Finally, there should be a rigorous evaluation of the program that provides ongoing feedback and that tracks the academic performance of program participants.

If more colleges follow the Meyerhoff Scholars Program, it stands to reason that years from now there will be more individuals from diverse backgrounds excelling in STEM careers, much like Jerome Adams, Angelique Johnson and Isaac Kinde are now.

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Header image: Joshua Brown, an IMSD Meyerhoff Graduate Fellows, works in the lab at UMBC. Photo courtesy of Marlayna Demond ’11.

Editor’s Note: The Conversation has received funding from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

Mariano R. Sto. Domingo, Assistant Research Scientist, University of Maryland, Baltimore County and Viji Sathy, Program Evaluator, Chancellor’s Science Scholars; Teaching Associate Professor, Dept of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.

Business First has named UMBC one of the best U.S. public colleges and universities in a national report issued this month. The publication notes that their study “pinpoints the public universities and colleges that offer the best educational experiences to their students.”

The ranking assesses over 500 four-year higher education institutions based on 22 key indicators. These factors measure a combination of academic excellence, affordability, diversity, and the economic strength of communities.

Three Maryland institutions are featured in the top 70, including UMBC; the University of Maryland, College Park; and St. Mary’s College of Maryland.

Other universities featured prominently include UC Berkeley and UC San Diego, UMBC’s partners for a recently announced $6.9 million replication of UMBC’s gold-standard Meyerhoff Scholars Program. Also highlighted are Penn State and UNC Chapel Hill, UMBC’s partners for the inaugural Meyerhoff replication, whose success was just featured in Science.

A full list of the top 250 ranked public universities is available through Business First.

Featured image: Students walk down the stairs near UMBC’s Albin O. Kuhn library in April 2019. Photo by Marlayna Demond ’11 for UMBC.

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