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A web of mentorship: Weaving support and arachnid research at UMBC

A web of mentorship, as intricate as the arachnids Mercedes Burns studies, stretches from her UMBC lab to University of North Carolina at Charlotte and University of Nevada, Las Vegas. At the...

August 12, 2025 · 12:53 PM

Summer Update on Our Response to Federal Actions and Orders

Dear UMBC Community, While campus may seem quiet over the summer, the news from beyond campus has been anything but. I write today with an update on the impacts of federal actions and orders...

August 7, 2025 · 6:18 PM

Summer Update on Our Response to Federal Actions and Orders

Dear UMBC Community, While campus may seem quiet over the summer, the news from beyond campus has been anything but. I write today with an update on the impacts of federal actions and orders...

August 7, 2025 · 2:18 PM

Jane Austen as an abolitionist? Margie Burns unpacks the loaded history of the phrase “pride and prejudice”

Figuring out what to get someone for their birthday can be both fun and daunting, especially when it’s their 250th birthday. On December 16, 1775, Jane Austen was born in Steventon, Hampshire,...

August 7, 2025 · 12:57 PM

UMBC mathematician honored with invitation to Stephen Smale’s 95th birthday conference

Matthew Kvalheim, assistant professor of mathematics, was one of only about 20 scholars who spoke at a conference celebrating the 95th birthday of Stephen Smale, one of the most influential...

August 5, 2025 · 2:22 PM

PNC Bank On Campus

Join the team from PNC Bank for a "Banking in the USA" seminar. Following the seminar, the team will be available to help interested students apply for a bank account. Location: University...

August 5, 2025 · 2:03 PM

Nurturing peace through daily acts, collaborative research with Afro-Colombian women in Colombia’s Pacific Northwest

Over 10 years ago, Tania Lizarazo met with Justa Mena Córdoba in Chocó, Colombia. Before Mena Córdoba passed away, Lizarazo promised to tell her story as one of the founding commissioners of the...

August 5, 2025 · 8:58 AM

The evolution, existence, and extinction of butch culture

Ever wonder what dinosaur poets would write about if they knew their moment of extinction was near? That’s one of the questions poet Tanya Olson, associate teaching professor of English,...

August 1, 2025 · 3:28 PM

UMBC’s human services psychology doctoral program is inspiring careers to serve people with opioid use disorders and post-traumatic stress

If you could develop a treatment to improve the care of millions of people with opioid use disorder (OUD) and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), where would you start? For doctoral students...

August 1, 2025 · 12:16 PM

UMBC and Building STEPs partner to help Baltimore City high school students reach their potential in STEM

Boing! Bouncy balls strike the hallway floor as small groups of students measure bounce heights with a meterstick and record data. They repeat the test in a carpeted classroom, then analyze...

August 1, 2025 · 12:07 PM

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