UMBC News and Headlines

Written by Erle C. Ellis, professor of geography and environmental systems, UMBC. When people talk about the “Anthropocene,” they typically picture the vast impact human societies are having...

As flowers start popping up on campus and we get some warmer (if rainy) days, it’s the perfect time to go out and catch some of the arts events happening at UMBC. Whether you need a break from...

Written by Brian Van Wyck, assistant professor of history, UMBC For decades, the Turkish government has sent imams to work in mosques across Germany. But the German Ministry of the Interior...

On a perfect 55-degree sunny February day, hundreds of undergraduate and graduate students across all colleges stood in a line that began at the RAC and wrapped its way to Sherman Hall. Instead of...

Within just a few months of living in Piątek, a small town in central Poland, Leah Michaels, M.F.A ’19, intermedia and digital arts, has already traveled to Romania, where many recipients of the...

The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) has chosen UMBC’s Interdisciplinary CoLab for its “Undergraduate Spotlight” series. ACLS is a nonprofit federation of 80 scholarly organizations...

The increasing impact of global disasters on health systems has created a growing need for experts to help manage disaster risks and reduce their impact. In keeping with that demand, UMBC’s...

Noor Zaidi, assistant professor of history, received a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) fellowship to research and write Translations of Zaynab: Gender, Sectarianism, and Citizenship in...

Walking down Academic Row, the ground floor windows of the Biological Sciences Building reflect the flow of student traffic, and colorful renditions of animals and microbes, silhouettes of...

Written by Meredith Oyen, associate professor of history and Asian studies, UMBC When the votes are being tallied in Taiwan’s presidential election, it won’t be only the 23.6 million...