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Baltimore mayor plans for free community college starting in 2018
Mayor Catherine Pugh’s recent plan to offer free community college for all Baltimore public high school students continues to gather momentum. Her original announcement was included in her August...
October 22, 2017 · 2:19 PM
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UMBC Professor awarded $1.5 million for groundbreaking research
UMBC’s very own Gymama Slaughter, a professor of computer science and electrical engineering, was recently awarded a $1.5 million research grant by the U.S. Army Medical Research and Material...
October 11, 2017 · 5:00 PM
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MTA to introduce 140 new buses for Baltimore public transit
The Maryland Transit Administration has finalized plans for the purchase of 140 new buses to be used in Baltimore’s public transit system. The deal for the new clean-diesel buses was struck for...
October 11, 2017 · 4:00 PM
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Climate Action Plan review critiqued for slow progress
As UMBC looks to revise its Climate Action Plan, concern grows among students and faculty over whether the school is doing enough to promote sustainability. In 2007, President Hrabowski signed...
October 11, 2017 · 3:00 PM
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UMBC student helping those with disabilities like her own
For one UMBC student working on her dissertation in robotics, the grind never stops. Even when she is completing monumental tasks for others against the pressure of a crippling disease: spinal...
October 11, 2017 · 3:00 PM
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UMBC launches program to address food insecurity
UMBC has recently launched Retriever Essentials, a partnership-based project aimed at combating food security in the university community. The program will allow students in need to have access to...
October 11, 2017 · 12:00 PM
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Baltimore’s school board applications now in hands of mayor
Baltimore City school board applications have recently closed, marking the first time in 20 years that the mayor will have sole discretion over who lands a job and who doesn’t. On March of this...
October 7, 2017 · 11:11 AM
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Salsarita’s price hikes upset students
As of the Fall 2017 semester, the Salsarita’s on campus began increasing prices for certain food items such as beans and rice, which now cost an extra dollar each when added to nachos and...
September 27, 2017 · 5:00 PM
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Alumnus Jerome Adams tapped to become U.S. Surgeon General
Dr. Jerome Adams, UMBC alumnus and former Indiana Health Commissioner, was confirmed as U.S. Surgeon General last August by President Trump. During the U.S. Senate hearing for Adams’...
September 27, 2017 · 5:00 PM
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Two students to lead Steering Committee for first time
For the first time ever in the history of the university’s Steering Committee, members elected two students to lead the group.  Prior to this, at least one of the officer positions was always...
September 27, 2017 · 3:00 PM
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