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Top Dawgs “We’re Number One! We’re Number One!” It isn’t often that UMBC President Freeman A. Hrabowski, III’s “State of the University” address is interrupted by an impromptu chant. But this...
UMBC assistant professor of sociology Zeynep Tufekci investigates how we use Facebook, Twitter and other new social-networking services to define ourselves. By Joab Jackson ’90 Illustration by...
I am delighted that one of the features in this issue is written by John Strausbaugh ’74, interdisciplinary studies. Strausbaugh has had a successful career in journalism and cultural criticism,...
UMBC President Freeman A. Hrabowski, III takes your questions. Q. What book do you recommend that every young person read before they go out into the “real world?” — Shivonne L. Laird ’99,...
Many theatre companies are born out of a mixture of inspiration and frustration. Take The Venus Theatre in Laurel, for instance. When its founder, Deborah Randall ’94, theatre, graduated from...
[Video] From UMBC Magazine Summer 2009, Early Risers, featuring Crew Club practice, ROTC morning routine, True Grits dining hall, and other UMBC voices — including one hungry squirrel. Video...
We Are Commonvision There’s a Quadmania T-shirt hanging on the wall, photographs of squirrels and a flyer about baked potatoes. There are smaller note cards, large posters and textured frames...
UMBC President Freeman A. Hrabowski, III, takes your questions. Q. How does UMBC prepare students for the real world? What is UMBC doing to instill a work ethic in students? — Monique Jones...
According to Google Maps, it takes a little over three hours to get from Catonsville to Morgantown, West Virginia. For James P. Clements ’85, computer science, and ’91 M.S. and ’93 Ph.D.,...