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“Thing could always be worse,” Robert Provine, professor of psychology, reminds us in an essay published by Business Day. “We have all heard of the ‘grass is greener’ syndrome. This is its...

“There are not that many of me left,” George Vitak, ’73, biological sciences, says jovially as we walk together from the Library Pond back to his office in the University Center on a blustery late...

UMBC students from  SOCY/HAPP 354, “The Social Basis of Community and Public Health,” regularly visit Baltimore’s Port Discovery Children’s Museum to discuss health issues with young visitors...

March 15, 2012 TO:  The UMBC Community FR:  Freeman Hrabowski, President and Philip Rous, Provost RE:   Your Support Vital for Higher Education Budget As the Maryland General Assembly works...

“[T]he 2012 presidential election is effectively over right now,” suggests political science professor Thomas Schaller in a provocative new Salon column this week. Despite the twists and turns of...