UMBC News and Headlines

On June 6, Dr. Kimberly Moffitt, Assistant Professor of American Studies, joined Dr. Ivory Toldson, Associate Professor of Counseling Psychology at Howard University and Jeffrey Menzise of the...

Towson University’s new Tiger Arena opens tonight. The arena cost $70 million, funded through $20 million in Towson’s reserve funds, combined with bonds paid back through a student fee set aside...

Robert Deluty, associate dean of the Graduate School, has published two poems—”Rejoinder” and “Higher Education”—in the “Poetry of the Academy” section of the Spring 2013 issue of The Faculty Voice.

You May Now Kiss the Brides Even as other battles loom, the LGBT community stops to celebrate marriage equality at Pride 2013 On a warm spring evening, Carrie Hiers and Tonya Cook sit on...

Christine Ferrera, Google Art Video, Video Still, Dimensions variable Friday, June 21 at 8:00 p.m., Between You and Me, an exhibition by Coordinator/Producer of the New Media Studio, Christine...

“Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown and Howard County Executive Ken Ulman shook up Maryland’s 2014 gubernatorial race by announcing they will run as a ticket for the Democratic nomination in 2014. Politically...

A new guest column by UMBC political science professor Thomas F. Schaller on Sabato’s Crystal Ball ask the highly provocative question, “How Should We Vote?” Schaller writes: Given pervasive...

The sudden appearance of three referenda in Maryland’s last election made some in Annapolis predict that they would be a regular feature in future elections, used as a tool by Maryland’s GOP to...

A Humanities Forum panel discussion recorded at UMBC during the Spring semester was featured on the “Marc Steiner Show” on Tuesday, June 5. The topic was “Race and the Civil Rights Movement in...

Jason Loviglio, Director of the Media and Communication Studies Program, is co-editor with Michele Hilmes of the new book “Radio’s New Wave: Global Sound in the Digital Era” (Routledge, 2013)....