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  <Title>UMBC&#8217;s Farah Helal, longtime student advocate, is named USM student regent</Title>
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    <div class="html-content">Farah Helal ’24, global studies and political science, is the newly appointed 2022 University System of Maryland (USM) student regent. “Student representatives provide educators and policymakers with the perspective needed to ensure the student voice is valued and understood throughout the decision-making process,” she says.</div>
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  <Summary>Farah Helal ’24, global studies and political science, is the newly appointed 2022 University System of Maryland (USM) student regent. “Student representatives provide educators and policymakers...</Summary>
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    <Title>Ocean exploration to environmental justice: UMBC students seize on unique summer opportunities</Title>
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    <Summary>When COVID struck, students, families, and educators nationwide worried about the impact it would have on learning experiences and career opportunities. Throughout summer 2021, UMBC students have...</Summary>
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    <Title>Graduating with gratitude: UMBC welcomes a new class of alumni</Title>
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          <div class="html-content">Persistent. Innovative. Determined. These are the words UMBC’s commencement speakers returned to again and again to describe the Class of 2021. And despite a year of challenges—missing family and friends, technological frustrations, life lived through the computer screen—one of the resounding themes of this year’s Commencement ceremonies was gratitude.</div>
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    <Summary>Persistent. Innovative. Determined. These are the words UMBC’s commencement speakers returned to again and again to describe the Class of 2021. And despite a year of challenges—missing family and...</Summary>
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    <PostedAt>Mon, 24 May 2021 12:54:44 -0400</PostedAt>
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  <Title>UMBC&#8217;s Cangialosi Business Innovation Competition winners focus on tech innovations, social impact</Title>
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  <Summary>The eighth annual Cangialosi Business Innovation Competition hosted by the Alex. Brown Center for Entrepreneurship was held virtually on April 29, with one track focused on technology and the...</Summary>
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    <Title>UMBC grads share what inspires them: family, Baltimore communities, international experiences</Title>
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          <div class="html-content">“I had never been part of a university whose work was centered around social justice,” says Nicholas Nguyen ‘21, M.A. sociology. “The Peace Corps showed me how political systems work at an international level. UMBC’s Peaceworker Program is giving me an understanding from a social justice and antiracist perspective.”</div>
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    <Summary>“I had never been part of a university whose work was centered around social justice,” says Nicholas Nguyen ‘21, M.A. sociology. “The Peace Corps showed me how political systems work at an...</Summary>
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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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    <Title>New UMBC grads honor parents&#8217; immigrant journeys by forging their own paths</Title>
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