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To You – Summer 2011

A university can offer up a lot of drama: joys and terrors, dark mysteries and the quest to unravel or unlock them. The issue that you have in your hands is chock-full of such drama. There is...

Posted: May 19, 2011, 7:20 PM

The News – Summer 2011

PUTTIN’ ON A HARD HAT The progress on the construction of Phase I of UMBC’s new Performing Arts and Humanities Building is impressive when seen from the outside. But put on a hard hat and get...

Posted: May 19, 2011, 7:18 PM

Storm Stalker

Hurricanes are powerful – and they also hold great mysteries. UMBC researcher Jeffrey Halverson uses the latest technology in collaboration with NASA to unlock those secrets and make potential...

Posted: May 19, 2011, 7:13 PM

Retracing Memory

UMBC professor of biology Suzanne Ostrand-Rosenberg found a box of faded letters that led her deep into her family’s history­–and led scholars to fascinating new findings in Holocaust studies....

Posted: May 19, 2011, 7:08 PM

Policing the Pastime – Kevin Cepelak ’05, PoliSci

Kevin Cepelak ’05, political science, has a job that comes with a pass that gets him into any Major League Baseball (MLB) park. And when he gets to his office near New York City’s Grand Central...

Posted: May 19, 2011, 7:05 PM