UMBC receives a lot of praise for its budding and ‘innovative’ undergraduate program, but this attention often leaves the university’s graduate programs (and subsequently its…
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Another fall semester of classes has officially begun at UMBC and with each passing fall semester, the campus is greeted by the advent of incoming…
UMBC’s 50th anniversary celebrates not only a long record of higher learning, but also an environment that allows students to get involved in new hobbies…
By now, you’ve probably been informed that this year marks UMBC’s 50th anniversary and while this is fine and dandy, there is another special anniversary…
Pi Kappa Phi’s annual Ability Week ended this year in a benefit concert – or, an “Ability Jam” – co-hosted with the Mama’s Boys, a UMBC…
Earth day was on Friday, a reminder for people to celebrate the planet and make efforts toward sustainable living. To celebrate the holiday, the Students…
The Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement Day is an annual event designed to showcase the hard work of UMBC undergraduate researchers. Students have the freedom to…
Ethnic diversity at UMBC is a given. You do not need to walk through Academic Row more than once to realize that UMBC is home…
Now that the spring semester is finally on its way out, we are finally getting our first weeks of warm, sunny bliss. The cherry blossoms…
A small group of students gathered in Engineering 027 on Friday afternoon to learn about the issue of human trafficking. Not many people were in…
In an ever-growing world that pushes reusability, the environmental organizations at UMBC hope to promote sustainability of our food and resources to move towards a greener…
Today, my name was William. William Wiscott. I spent an hour as William, a seven-year-old boy who is one of the millions in the United States facing…
It was her freshman orientation in 2012 when jazz performance major Cara Dekelbaum knew that she wanted to undertake the task of being the school…
The cold weather has finally broken and it’s safe to say that “spring” is finally here. You know what that means; it’s time to brace…
It seemed that Capree Garner had been hosting events for years, but this was actually her first rodeo. In the Commons ballroom, while hurrying from…
Although UMBC has clearly been established as a home for STEM majors, many of the humanities and social science departments still have enough room to grow,…