UMBC News and Headlines

U.S. News announced its 2023-24 Best Graduate School rankings today, highlighting UMBC graduate programs in a broad range of fields, from public policy and several types of engineering to...

Zinedine Partipilo Cornielles Degree: B.S., Financial Economics; B.A., Mathematics Hometown: Barquisimeto, Venezuela Post-grad plans: Predoctoral research fellow Zinedine Partipilo...

In 2020, Renata Taylor-Smith ’24, theatre, eagerly prepared for her first trip to Munich, Germany to study theatrical lighting design, but a week before she was meant to fly to Germany, her trip...

Meet Rachel Brubaker, M.A. ’00, historical studies, assistant director for grants and program development at the Dresher Center for the Humanities. Brubaker, a self-proclaimed humanities nerd, has...

UMBC President Valerie Sheares Ashby has appointed Tanyka M. Barber as the university’s inaugural vice president for institutional equity and chief diversity officer. She will officially join the...

Michelle Scott, associate professor of history, will discuss her new book T.O.B.A. Time: Black Vaudeville and the Theater Owners Booking Association in Jazz Age America(University of Illinois...

Written by Noorzehra Zaidi, assistant professor of history, UMBC For many Muslims breaking fast in mosques around the world this Ramadan, something will be missing: plastics. The...

Meet Adeola Ojomo, a sophomore sociology major who started working on campus helping other students as an academic peer advocate (APA) after being inspired by another APA who helped her with some...

Danielle Giese ’99, political science and Africana studies, remembers her first paychecks were hot and cheesy pizza lunches. They were the reward for volunteering at the Southern Maryland...

Co-written by Alicia Sabatino ’20, M.S. ’24, geography and environmental systems, UMBC. When you think about location data on your mobile phone, tablet or laptop, what comes to mind? Mailing...