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As UMBC celebrates its newest work of public art, we look back at the university’s legacy of public works on campus. By Lindsey Loeper ’04 and Richard Byrne ’86 One of the key elements of...

Sometimes a person’s journey to become one of the state’s most effective CEOs is surprisingly direct. Take Stephen Morgan ’72, psychology, who is the executive director of The Arc Baltimore....

Build a Major League Sports Museum With Mike Gibbons ’75, English Mike Gibbons ’75, English was making a film about baseball in 1981 when a research expedition led him to Baltimore’s Babe Ruth...

Develop and Displace Photo by Darrow Montgomery It’s rare that an author’s first book is hailed as a “trailblazing piece of scholarship.” Yet Rumor, Repression, and Racial Politics: How the...

“Roman poets were a lot like rappers,” observes Joseph Howley ’06, ancient studies, who is an assistant professor of classics at Columbia University. It’s the kind of observation – presented as an...