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In 2019 Idea Competition, UMBC students focus on inclusion

Necessity can inspire innovation and sometimes, UMBC’s Emma Neubert will tell you, that innovation comes in the form of a cuddly critter with eight limbs that makes silly sounds. Neubert ‘21,...

Posted: November 26, 2019, 2:47 PM

Setting the Bar — The Impact of a Judicial Internship

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...

Posted: November 25, 2019, 5:58 PM

Peace of Mind

Today’s 18 to 24-year-old college students are expressing anxiety, depression, suicidal ideation, and other related disorders at rates higher than previous generations, according to recent...

Posted: November 25, 2019, 2:57 PM

The Driving Force of Chemistry

In a chemical engineering lab, students huddle around a bench layering aluminum foil and steel wool together to build a battery. Another group pipettes solutions into a pressure vessel to test...

Posted: November 21, 2019, 2:46 PM

Building Bonds: Jody Grandier ’17

To teach in a particularly challenging school, it might just help to have gone through a few challenges of your own. At least, that is the case for Jody Grandier ’17, American studies. The...

Posted: November 20, 2019, 2:00 PM