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UMBC places ninth at 2019 Pan-Am Team Chess Championship

UMBC Chess has continued its strong performance with another high-ranking finish at the leading intercollegiate team championship in the Americas. The Retrievers placed ninth out of 63 teams at...

Posted: January 3, 2020, 9:31 PM

Creating Community Through Food

If you’ve ever searched online for a place to eat in Baltimore, chances are Ekiben has popped up as a top destination again and again. Or, if you followed along with this year’s fried chicken...

Posted: December 20, 2019, 8:53 PM

50-Foot Woman Tells All

If art is life, then Rahne Alexander is living hers as a collage of towering technicolor. On stage with her bands Santa Librada and 50’ ; she conjures her musical muses—think Stevie Nicks or the...

Posted: December 17, 2019, 4:44 PM

UMBC welcomes European Union ambassadors to the U.S.

Ambassadors from the European countries of Slovenia, Estonia, and the Czech Republic convened at UMBC this month as part of the first joint European Union (E.U.) State outreach trip outside of...

Posted: December 12, 2019, 9:34 PM