UMBC News and Headlines

The American Council on Education (ACE), has announced that Anne Brodsky has been named an ACE fellow for academic year 2016-17. Brodsky, an associate dean of the College of Arts, Humanities, and...

Viviana MacManus, an assistant professor of gender and women’s studies, has been awarded a Career Enhancement Fellowship for Junior Faculty from the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation....

UMBC’s undergraduate psychology program has been named the #3 up and coming program in the East in new rankings by BestPsychologyDegrees.com. The rankings considered the presence of graduate...

The Washington Post has named UMBC alumna Shalonda Holt its 2016 Teacher of the Year. The recognition comes after Holt was named Howard County Teacher of the Year in February. Holt ’07,...

In a new op-ed published in The Conversation, School of Public Policy Professor John Rennie Short comments on the growing infrastructure gap in the United States and questions why there isn’t more...

Jessica Berman, director of the Dresher Center for the Humanities and professor of English, has published a new edited volume of 33 essays by leading scholars on the life, work, and multiple...

On December 10, 2015, President Obama signed into law the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), which reauthorizes the 50-year-old Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) and replaces the No...

UMBC faculty in political science, public policy, and American studies have been in the news providing political analysis as Maryland’s primary election is less than a month away and the...

The Noordbrabants Museum in the Netherlands has opened a new exhibition commemorating artist Hieronymous Bosch’s 500th anniversary. Honors College Professor Ellen Handler Spitz wrote a detailed...

UMBC President Freeman Hrabowski pointed out something interesting about the Graduate Research Conference as he spoke to the hundreds assembled for this year’s event: it’s not just about the...