Helena Mentis, assistant professor of information systems at UMBC, was recently awarded the CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation for her research in surgical…
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The Cyber Defense Team, a UMBC club focusing on computer and network security, recently competed in and won the 2015 Maryland Cyber Defense Challenge, or…
Student Support Services is undergoing a lot of change lately, with the most publicized shift being a change in name. Student Support Services is now…
On Jan. 21, 2016 UMBC’s Maryland Quitting Use and Initiation of Tobacco program held its 10th Annual Best Practices Conference. The event focused on tobacco cessation…
Erin Lavik, chemical, biochemical and environmental engineering professor at UMBC, along with members of the Lavik Lab, a lab which collaborates with UMBC, have developed…
UMBC has announced that beginning in early February, the university will begin constructing the Retriever Event Center, an advanced athletics venue and multi-use facility. The…
A recent decision made by UMBC’s Office of Environmental Safety and Health has led to a campus-wide ban on hoverboards and drones. This decision was…
On Sunday, Jan. 24, UMBC announced that campus will be closed Saturday the 23 and Sunday the 24. Furthermore, the move-in date for residents will be…
The UMBC community lost a critical figure from its history earlier this month. Homer W. Schamp Jr., UMBC’s founding dean of faculty and provost, passed…
On November 17, UMBC student Vanessa D. Barksdale gave an educational lecture regarding her research about the evolution of collegiate activism in Maryland colleges. “Given…
On Wednesday, Nov. 11, the department of Africana studies at UMBC hosted the 37th Annual W.E.B. Du Bois Distinguished Lecture. The lectures offer new contributions…
The National Taiwan University Ranking has included UMBC in its 2015 Performance Ranking of Scientific Papers for World Universities. The NTU Ranking is calculated based…
A team of four individuals came before the SGA Senate on Monday, October 12, to present an initiative that has been in the making for…
Yet another construction project has broken ground on campus. A large portion of The Commons is being re-roofed. “The roof of The Commons has become…
Solar-powered tables have been installed in front of The Commons, Harbor Hall and the RAC. Students can now use these tables to charge their electronics using this…
Parking at UMBC has now become increasingly more difficult for residents of the Westhill and Terrace apartments. Severn, an apartment block in the Westhill complex,…