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Awarding 100,000 dreams and counting—UMBC’s Class of 2025
UMBC awarded its historic 100,000th degree since UMBC’s first Commencement class in 1970, which had 241 students—a stark contrast to the 1,528 undergraduate and 700 graduate degrees awarded to the Class of 2025. To celebrate this historic moment, President Valerie Sheares Ashby rejoiced in the milestone. “What a profound impact UMBC has had on the…
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Janerra Allen, Ph.D. ’25: A first-generation engineering college grad uplifts fellow students
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Samuel Barnett ’25: Biochemistry researcher with a commitment to giving back
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Gathering a humanities research tool kit to understand a fascinating world
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Tree sap batteries: Student entrepreneur Samuel Bendek imagines a clean energy future less reliant on critical minerals
UMBC Magazine
Fall 2024 Issue
Everyone Is Watching Women’s Sports
Magazine
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Then & Now—Home Sweet Home
UMBC opened its residential doors to the first cohort of 118 on-campus Retrievers on March 15, 1970. More dorms would follow, and apartments, and living learning communities, and here we are in 2025…
Quick Posts
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UMBC researchers partner with UMB to advance healthcare technology
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UMBC team leads research into AI tools that can assess the feasibility of scientific claims
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TowerCares Foundation makes $300,000 commitment to support UMBC cybersecurity students
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Students celebrate Engineering and Computing Week with fun and networking
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Bio-inspired ‘batteries’ will use phytoplankton to power underwater sensors
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UMBC delegates build international connections at prestigious science and technology conference in India
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Carla Guarraia, Ph.D. ’06, receives Presidential Award for Teaching
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Mechanical engineering Ph.D. student Md Badrul Hasan recognized for research modeling hurricanes with machine learning
Community
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UMBC teams up with disability advocacy organization on Kinetic Sculpture Race—and wins best art award
UMBC competed in the 25th year of the Kinetic Sculpture Race, partnering with The IMAGE Center of Maryland, a non-profit organization dedicated to “new thinking about disability,” to build and race a sculpture named IMAGE Man. The team won the best art award and was second in the overall rankings. Continue Reading UMBC teams up…
Policy & Society
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ICARE Day celebrates 5 years of environmental research, community partnerships
ICARE began with a handful of faculty members from all three colleges at UMBC who wanted to collaborate more closely. Over time, it grew into an NSF-funded training program that today includes more than 100 people and 36 organizations. Today, trainnes are “combining the skills, knowledge, and perspectives you gained here in ICARE with your already…
Science & Technology
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Multiplying community connections: UMBC math and stat and the Ingenuity Project at a Baltimore high school forge thriving STEM partnership
On Wednesday, May 21, more than 300 high school students from the Baltimore Polytechnic Institute (Poly) and other guests participated in the Ingenuity Project’s 2025 STEM Student Research Symposium. The symposium capped a semester of interaction between UMBC and the Ingenuity Project, building on two years of collaboration. Continue Reading Multiplying community connections: UMBC math…
Arts & Culture
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New Art of Science award recognizes UMBC students who communicate research visually
The Havelock and Jennifer Brewster Art of Science Award recognizes one student per year who produces original, visually stunning photographs, illustrations, or data visualizations that effectively communicate an important aspect of research. “There is endless complexity and beauty captured in the images we generate using increasingly advanced imaging technologies,” Brewster says. “To me, this is…
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UMBC teams up with disability advocacy organization on Kinetic Sculpture Race—and wins best art award
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Multiplying community connections: UMBC math and stat and the Ingenuity Project at a Baltimore high school forge thriving STEM partnership
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Dust aerosol research earns Jianyu Zheng, Ph.D. ’23, outstanding early-career award
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Awarding 100,000 dreams and counting—UMBC’s Class of 2025