Meet Margaret Chisolm ’80, visual arts with a concentration in film. After graduating from UMBC, Margaret was accepted into graduate school at NYU in cinema studies, but decided to go to medical...
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One way to describe Dave Anguish’s journey with UMBC is as a trip around the world and back again. Anguish came to UMBC in 2008 to study political science as well as modern languages, linguistics,...
May 30, 2025
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Tanya Olson, associate professor of English, UMBC. On March 15, 1974, the Grand Ole Opry country music radio show closed its run at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee, with...
May 30, 2025
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The Retriever Weekly announces the new dorms opening in 1970. (UMBC Special Collections) “Hey UMBC, and welcome to my crib!” That’s probably not verbatim what students said when UMBC’s first...
May 30, 2025
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On a pleasant Saturday in early May, nearly 30 teams gathered in Baltimore to pedal elaborate all-terrain sculptures 15 miles through a course featuring pavement, water, sand, and mud. The 25th...
May 29, 2025
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On Wednesday, May 21, more than 300 high school students from the high school Baltimore Polytechnic Institute (Poly), family members, teachers, and faculty and staff from area universities filled...
May 29, 2025
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Jianyu “Kevin” Zheng, a postdoctoral fellow with the Goddard Earth Sciences Technology and Research (GESTAR) Center II, whose work focuses on remote sensing for dust aerosols, is the recipient of...
May 28, 2025
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Dear UMBC Community, We write today to provide an update on our budget planning for fiscal year 2026 (FY26) and to share with you a sense of the near-term financial picture for UMBC in...
May 28, 2025
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Before Joy Gabrielle Ware walked off the Commencement stage, she stopped mid-stage to face her peers and shouted, “UM!” prompting a booming “BC!” response from the undergraduates and their...
May 27, 2025
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Imagine cells navigating through a complex maze, guided by chemical signals and the physical landscape of their environment. At UMBC, a team of researchers has contributed an important discovery...
May 27, 2025
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