From UMBC News and Magazine
Bartleby is more than golden—50+ years with UMBC’s creative arts journal
Quinn shows his poem published in the 1979 – 1980 Bartleby edition. (Catalina Dansberger Duque/UMBC) “Bartleby NEEDS YOU!” This was the handwritten call to arms in 1979, for writers and poets...
Posted: May 21, 2026, 5:07 PM
Isabel Kendall ’26—Honors College mentor, visual artist, and study abroad enthusiast
Isabel Kendall ’26, modern languages and linguistics, is described by Julie Oakes, assistant director of curriculum and retention in UMBC’s Honors College, as someone who “truly represents what is...
Posted: May 21, 2026, 4:03 PM
Katie King ’26, biology and dance double major, Admissions Grit Guide, and UMBC Dance Team co-captain, pursues a future that engages her passions
Katie King ’26, biology and dance, completed an ambitious double degree, and not only thrived but also became co-captain of the UMBC Dance Team and worked for the admissions office as a Grit...
Posted: May 20, 2026, 4:14 PM
Maia Turman Cooke ’26—English and political science double major, McNair Scholar, and Choice Program workforce and education advocate
With support from faculty, staff, and her peers, Maia Turman Cooke ’26, English and political science, not only thrived in her double major but also challenged herself by joining the McNair...
Posted: May 17, 2026, 9:53 PM
UMBC opens a new chapter with inaugural BookFest
Appropriately, chapter one of UMBC’s inaugural BookFest began at AOK Library Plaza. Hundreds of students gathered at the BookMarkIt to try letterpress printing, stitch pamphlets, create and swap...
Posted: May 15, 2026, 2:10 PM
A place where kindness grows
Ten minutes south of True Grits, food is also being prepared for the local community. It’s 8:30 on a Wednesday morning in the parking lot of Arbutus United Methodist Church. To the right of the...
Posted: May 15, 2026, 12:41 PM
Finley Bandy ’26 finds a future in history
Finley Bandy spent last summer in the cool temperatures and dim light of UMBC’s Albin O. Kuhn Library and Gallery Special Collections—the perfect environment to preserve rare books, photographs,...
Posted: May 12, 2026, 3:44 PM
Vunnathi Ankem ’26—finding community and her place at UMBC
For Vunnathi Ankem, psychology, the UMBC experience has been defined by one word: community. As an resident assistant, a researcher, and a multifaceted student leader, she has spent her four years...
Posted: May 12, 2026, 1:24 PM
Zareen Taj earns her Ph.D., publishing the first autoethnography by a Hazara Afghan woman about the ongoing genocide of Hazara women under Taliban rule
This spring on Thursday evenings, students filled room 424 in the Fine Arts building for their Asian Diaspora in Motion: Media, Culture, Identity, and Activism class. At the head of the classroom...
Posted: May 5, 2026, 3:29 PM
Eight Retrievers awarded prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
Eight UMBC students and alumni have been awarded the prestigious 2026 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (GRFP), a highly competitive honor that supports outstanding graduate...
Posted: April 24, 2026, 1:34 PM
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