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UMBC scientists and engineers celebrate launch of HARP2 instrument on NASA’s PACE mission
After over a decade of concerted effort, full of setbacks and recoveries, UMBC’s HARP team celebrated as the instrument they designed and built launched on PACE, a major NASA mission set to study Earth’s atmosphere and oceans. Continue Reading UMBC scientists and engineers celebrate launch of HARP2 instrument on NASA’s PACE mission
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UMBC students receive prestigious Goldwater Scholarship for fifth consecutive year
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Ph.D. student Jonas Miller receives USM Student Excellence Scholarship
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Nancy Kusmaul, social work, receives “Outstanding Individual in Academia” award from the Congressional Research Institute for Social Work and Policy
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Watch: A recap of URCAD 2024
UMBC Magazine
Fall 2023 Issue
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Magazine
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Meet a Retriever—Christian Jassani ’27, a first-year ambassador and active student leader
Meet Christian Jassani, a first-year political science and global studies major. Christian is a member of the Honors College, Susquehanna Community Council, Honors Council, and SGA. He has taken advantage of the many…
Quick Posts
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Students inspire William Blake’s paper on constitutional amendments in the prestigious ‘American Political Science Review’
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First CNMS GradFest fosters interdepartmental interaction among grads, postdocs
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CAHSS dean establishes a $400,000 education abroad scholarship
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Inaugural CNMS Science Discovery Series hits the mark with community audience
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Going the distance—virtual classrooms allow 300 former students to earn their degrees
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UMBC joins BRAIN Center to advance innovations in neurotechnologies
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Mellon Foundation grants CAHSS $750K to establish Global Asias Initiative
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Hundreds of East Coast chemical engineering students to gather at UMBC for regional conference
Community
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UMBC students receive prestigious Goldwater Scholarship for fifth consecutive year
For the fifth consecutive year, multiple UMBC students have been awarded a Barry Goldwater Scholarship. Gabriel Otubu ’25, biochemistry, Nathaniel Glover ’25, chemical engineering, and Samuel Barnett ’25, biochemistry, were recently named among the 2024 Goldwater Scholars recipients, joining UMBC’s growing list of students to receive this prestigious research scholarship. Continue Reading UMBC students receive…
Policy & Society
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Nancy Kusmaul, social work, receives “Outstanding Individual in Academia” award from the Congressional Research Institute for Social Work and Policy
UMBC’s Nancy Kusmaul, associate professor of social work, a scholar and advocate for the rights of older adults and professional caregivers, received the “Outstanding Individual in Academia” award from the Congressional Research Institute for Social Work and Policy in March 2024 at a ceremony on Capitol Hill. Kusmaul’s work is informed by her 10 years…
Science & Technology
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Month of Earth Day events culminates with 8th Annual Earth Day Symposium
This year, UMBC partnered with the EPA to host more events than ever before for Earth Day: a total of 18 throughout the month of April. “A tradition we are really proud of is that this event is 100 percent planned and implemented by our graduate students,” shared Zhibo Zhang about the concluding Earth Day…
Arts & Culture
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Three UMBC artists—Kelley Bell, Corrie Francis Parks, and Katie Hileman—named Baker Artist Award finalists
Kelley Bell, M.F.A. ’06, associate professor of visual arts, Corrie Francis Parks, associate professor of visual arts, and Katie Hileman ’12, theatre, and general associate in the department of theatre, are among the finalists for the prestigious 2024 Baker Artist Award. Established in 2009, the Baker Artist program was created to support artists and promote…
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