UMBC News and Headlines

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Heading into International Education Week, November 18 – 22, UMBC is celebrating the expansion of international learning opportunities and partnerships. UMBC is reaching beyond traditional study...

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...

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!...

What is the future of W.E.B. Du Bois? Nimi Wariboko, the featured speaker at UMBC’s 41st annual W.E.B. Du Bois lecture, aims to address this question. “I want to bring Du Bois’s rich and complex...