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Train a Dog to Perform Search and Rescue Lisa Kakavas ’94, psychology, spends her days working as textbook manager in the UMBC Bookstore. At night and on weekends, however, you’ll find her out...

UMBC alumni work to preserve and present history for broad audiences in Maryland and beyond. By Max Cole UMBC’s history department is the only one in Maryland that offers a graduate track in...

Rubin Rakovsky was an in-house auditor for a multinational accounting firm, but wasn’t happy with his job. “I was just a number there,” he says. “I wanted to feel like I was part of something.”...

UMBC Athletics Director Tim Hall Lays Out His Program for the Future of Retriever Fever Interview by Richard Byrne ’86 When Tim Hall was appointed director of athletics, physical education and...

INSPIRED CHOICE Julia M. Ross’ path to becoming the new dean of UMBC’s College of Engineering and Information Technology (COEIT) was paved by numerous achievements as a scholar and an academic...