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UMBC’s Society of Women Engineers (SWE) hosted “Fight the Stereotype,” an event focused on challenging gender and racial stereotypes related to STEM education and careers, on April 5, 2016....

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...

For the fifth consecutive year, Times Higher Education (THE) has recognized UMBC as one of the world’s leading young universities. UMBC is one of just five U.S. universities to make the 2016 list,...

“I’m grateful to be part of a research university where teaching is honored and prized,” said Calla Thompson, associate professor of visual arts, as she received UMBC’s 2016-2019 Presidential...

On Sunday, April 24, Grandmaster Timur Gareyev, economics, a UMBC Chess Team alumnus, will return to campus to play a number of chess games while blindfolded and to lead a strategy session on how...