UMBC’s student-athletes posted a record-setting semester in the classroom in the fall of 2011. Sixty-two percent (209) of Retriever student-athletes recorded grade-point averages of 3.00 or...
February 2, 2012
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On February 16, Nicole King, assistant professor of American studies, will present “Mapping Baybrook: Environmental Justice in Industrial South Baltimore” as part of a series of “Baltimore History...
February 2, 2012
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Jessica Berman, Associate Professor and Chair of English, has just published a book, Modernist Commitments: Ethics, Politics and Transnational Modernism. In the book Berman explores how modernist...
January 31, 2012
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It may still be January, but UMBC’s students are already thinking ahead to Spring Break — and not for the reasons you may be thinking. UMBC’s Alternative Spring Break, which gives students a...
January 31, 2012
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As GOP presidential candidates vie for support in Florida, immigration politics and the fight for the Latino vote have moved front-and-center, notes UMBC political science professor Thomas...
January 30, 2012
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Maryland’s Republican and Democratic senators have recently come together to support a group of bipartisan bills on education, tax and identity theft issues, but will this collaboration have a...
January 30, 2012
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Baltimore social media entrepreneur Sean Carton ’90, English, headlined UMBC’s inaugural Social Media Strategy Summit today, speaking to a group of more than 80 from local colleges and...
January 27, 2012
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UMBC political science professor Thomas Schaller continues his commentary on the presidential election today with new columns in Salon and the Baltimore Sun. In “Obama takes his case to the...
January 25, 2012
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Is there water on Vespa? Timothy Stubbs and his colleague, Yongli Wang think so. In a NASA special Web feature Stubbs talks about their findings. “”Near the north and south poles, the...
January 25, 2012
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At the November meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Robert Provine, professor of psychology, and his student co-authors presented a poster entitled “When the whites of the eyes are red,...
January 25, 2012
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