Each year over 1,500 incoming UMBC students are required to attend a mandatory orientation that includes advising and registration. Without guidance counselors and parents, these students…
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The Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture invited four outstanding artists to display their creations in Spectrum: 2017 Visual Arts Faculty Exhibition on November…
“No programming experience required,” is bolded across the top of the myUMBC event page for the “Intro to Game Developing” workshop, which was held this…
If you have never been to MGM National Harbor, it is similar to being inside of an airport. There are an assortment of high-class restaurants…
On Wednesday evening, 32 local, national and international companies met in the University Center Ballroom for the annual Diversity Recruitment event. Although the companies ranged…
Reports of antisemitic and racist acts of intolerance on the UMBC campus have continued to rise since the beginning of the academic year. Campus police…
UMBC professor Glenn Fiedelholtz won the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Computing Conference Award last summer. Fiedelholtz, who teaches under the department of information…
Several Baltimore area private schools have come under fire after photos arose of some students and alumni wearing racially insensitive Halloween costumes. One of the…
In the mid-1970s, groups of women settled in Oregon, California and New Mexico in order to occupy a land-based community, by women, for women, that…
On Wednesday Oct. 25, the English department sponsored a colloquium featuring Rafael Walker, visiting professor of English at UMBC. Walker’s interest in American and African…
Writing papers can be an intimidating aspect of university life. To be honest, even writing a 280-character tweet is challenging, so professors are really expecting…
President Trump is known to be “eccentric” when it comes to issues regarding the LGBTQ+ community, so it is not surprising that his administration is…
Tuesday evening, ghouls, ghosts and monsters alike took over the game room from 6-10 p.m. Although these haunted figures were only embodied by creative costumes,…
How does it change your approach, now that you only have to teach the system to newcomers, and the guys coming back can assist in…
Being a college student is hard enough without worrying about where the next meal is coming from. Most students spend their time worrying about balancing…
UMBC likes to promote its “nerdy” culture. It is an identity that separates UMBC from other schools in the University of Maryland system. Other schools…