From UMBC News and Magazine
Together every step of the way: Three sisters earn UMBC teaching degrees
Transferring to a new college often comes with some trepidation about making new friends and finding your crowd. For Michelle, Melissa, and Melanie Biddinger, however, those were the least of...
Posted: December 17, 2019, 6:50 PM
UMBC’s Jason Schiffman and his YouthFIRST lab advance early identification and treatment of psychosis
UMBC’s Jason Schiffman and his team conduct research on the screening, assessment, and treatment of young people experiencing psychosis. He has recently been awarded two prestigious grants from...
Posted: December 17, 2019, 5:10 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
Swimmer, engineer, composer: Three Retrievers share their unique paths to graduation day
Imagine packing your bags and traveling 6,000 miles from home to spend four years in a country you’ve never visited. That’s exactly what Hania Moro ‘19, financial economics, did when she made the...
Posted: December 17, 2019, 3:28 AM
“We need people just like you”: Transfer students find, and build, supportive communities at UMBC
Students come to UMBC with a variety of experiences and in different stages of life. The unique perspectives of transfer students enrich the University, particularly as students connect with and...
Posted: December 16, 2019, 6:30 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
UMBC’s Evan Avila, advocate for equal access to financial services, is a finalist for the Marshall Scholarship
Evan Avila’s goal is to work on Capitol Hill, advocating for immigrant communities’ access to financial security and economic equality. He has now been recognized as a finalist for the prestigious...
Posted: December 6, 2019, 8:47 PM
NPR Is Still Expanding the Range of What Authority Sounds Like After 50 Years
By Jason Loviglio, founding chair and associate professor of media and communication studies, UMBC From its start half a century ago, National Public Radio heralded a new approach to the sound...
Posted: December 6, 2019, 3:41 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
Spinster, Old Maid, or Self-Partnered–Why Words for Single Women Have Changed Through Time
By Amy Froide, chair and professor, Department of History, UMBC In a recent interview with Vogue, actress Emma Watson opened up about being a single 30-year-old woman. Instead of calling herself...
Posted: December 2, 2019, 2:22 PM
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