Meet Maria Bruno ’19, social work, a first-generation college student who transferred to UMBC at The Universities at Shady Grove from Montgomery College. Currently working as a mental health...
November 23, 2022
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10:52 AM
Meet UMBC Retriever Phil Shockley ’04, political science and information systems, M.P.P. ’09. As an undergraduate, he was Student Government Association president and took part in leadership roles...
November 17, 2022
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3:38 PM
David L. Di Maria, Associate Vice Provost for International Education, UMBC. India is up. China is down. Very few U.S. students studied abroad during the first year of the pandemic....
November 15, 2022
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12:10 PM
The photographer Lewis Hine secured a place in history as a documentarian of early 20th century life, including a transformational investigation into the conditions for child laborers. From...
November 14, 2022
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3:22 PM
Today, millions of college students across the country are voting. Other students are not voting—they might be discouraged that their voice can make a difference, uninformed about their voting...
November 8, 2022
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11:12 AM
Richard Forno, principal lecturer in Computer science and Electrical Engineering, UMBC A warning about the threat of political violence heading into the 2022 midterm elections was issued to...
November 7, 2022
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2:15 PM
Meet Janerra Allen, M.S. ’22, electrical engineering, who is pursuing a Ph.D. in the same subject to kick off a career in brain imaging research. A first-generation college student from Brooklyn,...
October 31, 2022
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8:56 AM
Meet Jok Abraham Thon, UMBC’s first Peaceworker Global Fellow and the first Retriever from South Sudan. Thon is pursuing his master’s in entrepreneurship, innovation, and leadership and plans to...
October 26, 2022
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2:56 PM
Meet Evangeline Kirigua ’21, political science, who transferred from Montgomery College and is now working as an intake officer with the Maryland Department of Transportation. Evangeline, who...
October 26, 2022
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1:53 PM
Every year, Retrievers of all ages (including some actual Retriever pups) and community members gather together for UMBC’s Homecoming—and as always, this year had something for everyone. For those...
October 20, 2022
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10:23 AM
