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In an email to the campus community, UMBC President Valerie Sheares Ashby has announced that Paul A. Meggett will join the university as general counsel, and that Yaakov “Jake” Weissmann ’06 will...

Dear UMBC Community,  With great pleasure, I write to share the news of two key appointments in UMBC’s senior leadership team. Both are highly specialized roles, and in the two individuals who...

Meet Lola Akinmade Åkerström ‘98, M.S. ‘02, award-winning visual storyteller, international bestselling author, and travel entrepreneur. Originally a geographic information systems professional,...

Dear UMBC Community, I am pleased to share with you that our national searches for two key leadership roles at UMBC are moving forward: We have now named the full search committees for both. My...

On a warm and humid day in January, about 40 children, five teachers, and 10 volunteers spill out of a school bus at the Saigon Zoo and Botanical Garden in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam—one big bundle...