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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

Beautiful Dreamer

The film begins, a fast-moving montage of seemingly unrelated images: eyes, people dancing, an airplane landing, artillery, President Kennedy, wrestlers, a woman applying hairspray, all...

Posted: December 3, 2019, 9:36 PM

Keeping Pace with Theatrical Intimacy 

If you’ve ever watched a movie with anything higher than a PG rating, chances are you’ve seen two actors perform an on-screen kiss. Perhaps at the time, you didn’t think much about what went into...

Posted: November 26, 2019, 3:36 PM

Setting the Bar — The Impact of a Judicial Internship

As a student in Towson High School’s Law and Public Policy program, Randall Ainsworth ’19, history and philosophy, created a peer mentoring program for other young African American men there. In a...

Posted: November 25, 2019, 5:58 PM

UMBC Shines at Brilliant Baltimore

In this first year of Baltimore’s mash-up of eclectic and electric art festival Light City and the annual book festival—a hybrid called Brilliant Baltimore—UMBC shone brightly. Several UMBC...

Posted: November 18, 2019, 2:22 PM

How to Become an American Ninja Warrior

Photo courtesy of Eiskant. With Dan Eiskant ’19, media and communication studies Faster than a speeding bullet! More powerful than a locomotive! Able to leap tall buildings at a singlebound!...

Posted: November 13, 2019, 7:07 PM