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    <Title>Each journey unique: UMBC students complete their degrees after returning mid-pandemic</Title>
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          <div class="html-content">Of the more than 120 students who returned to complete their UMBC degree through the Finish Line program after years away from college, roughly a fourth of them only needed one more semester to do so. These returning students are graduating this week.</div>
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    <Summary>Of the more than 120 students who returned to complete their UMBC degree through the Finish Line program after years away from college, roughly a fourth of them only needed one more semester to do...</Summary>
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    <PostedAt>Tue, 15 Dec 2020 16:10:13 -0500</PostedAt>
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    <Title>UMBC&#8217;s newest arts grads forge ahead with creative work, despite a year apart</Title>
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          <div class="html-content">As the pandemic surged across the country last spring, university arts venues closed their doors, but that didn’t stop UMBC artists from creating. Without the traditional  opportunities for collaboration that can be so important in dance, music, theatre, and the visual arts, they turned to new approaches and to individual projects with determination and passion.</div>
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    <Summary>As the pandemic surged across the country last spring, university arts venues closed their doors, but that didn’t stop UMBC artists from creating. Without the traditional  opportunities for...</Summary>
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    <PostedAt>Mon, 14 Dec 2020 21:13:10 -0500</PostedAt>
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    <Title>New UMBC grads honor parents&#8217; immigrant journeys by forging their own paths</Title>
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          <div class="html-content">Graduating seniors Anthony Cano, Renato Zanelli, and Maya Scheirer came to UMBC with pride and hunger instilled by their immigrant parents’ work ethic. They brought rich cultures, languages, and hearts full of dreams and aspirations with the goal of forging futures of their own. “As a first-generation college student," Zanelli says, "I can now be a role model for my younger cousins. I can help and inspire them. They will not have to do it alone.”</div>
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    <Summary>Graduating seniors Anthony Cano, Renato Zanelli, and Maya Scheirer came to UMBC with pride and hunger instilled by their immigrant parents’ work ethic. They brought rich cultures, languages, and...</Summary>
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    <PostedAt>Mon, 14 Dec 2020 16:29:36 -0500</PostedAt>
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    <Title>UMBC&#8217;s newest computing grads, from bachelor&#8217;s to Ph.D., share stories of connection, support, opportunity</Title>
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    <Summary>UMBC’s newest graduates in computing and data science fields include students at all stages in their education and careers. Undergraduates, master’s students seeking to access new career...</Summary>
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    <Title>UMBC&#8217;s newest biotech grads launch careers that will make a difference</Title>
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          <div class="html-content">UMBC's Translational Life Science Technology degree is one of UMBC's newest academic programs. The interdisciplinary program "is different from other majors," says Titina Sirak '20, "because you take a whole range of classes. It helps you open up your mind to different sides of biotech.”</div>
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    <Title>Acting locally and globally: Four UMBC students embark on community-engaged careers</Title>
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          <div class="html-content">Community-engaged work has been integral to the UMBC experience for  so many Retrievers, including the four featured here. Despite coming from such different academic programs, they have all been able to connect in meaningful ways with local and international communities. And after graduating this week, they'll each apply their talents, skills, and sense of commitment to community-engaged careers.</div>
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  <Title>Creating new pathways: Meet ten UMBC arts graduates advancing their fields</Title>
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